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twelve or thirteen years of age, who was taken 
alive, became the object of dispute between two 
of our officers, each of them claiming her as his 
lawful prize; a third coming up, put an end to the 
contest, by shooting the girl through the head. 
The place from which these barbarians threw them¬ 
selves into the sea, has been called ever since It 
Morne des Sauteurs * Our people (having lost 
but one man in the expedition) proceeded in the 
next place to set fire to the cottages, and root up 
the provisions of the savages, and, having destroy¬ 
ed, or taken away, every thing belonging to them, 
returned in high spirits ,” (hien joyeux.J 
By a series of such enormities, the whole race of 
Charaibes that possessed Grenada in 1650, was 
speedily exterminated, and the French, having in 
this manner butchered ail the natives, proceeded, 
in the next place, to massacre each other. 
The particulars of this civil contest may, with¬ 
out injury to my readers be omitted. I shall there¬ 
fore only observe, that the supreme authority of Du 
Parquet and his lieutenant, was at length establish¬ 
ed in Grenada; but the expense which had attend¬ 
ed the plantation from its outset, and the mainte¬ 
nance of the force which Du Parquet had been 
compelled to furnish in support of his authority, 
had so greatly injured his fortune, as to induce him 
to look out for a purchaser of all his rights and 
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* Leaper’s Hill.' 
