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“...by motor-car. It is of interest as having been the scene
oh ruthless massacre of the Caribs, a number of whom
nursued by the French under Le Compte, m 1650,
rushed up ^ narrow and difficult path known to them
alone and threw themselves over the edge of a cliff
(Le Mome des Sauteurs, or The Leapers Hifl) overlooking
the bay The French, who only lost one man, then set
fae to the cottages and rooted up the provision crops
rf the ÏÏribs, U having destroyed o,teta. «g
everything belonging to them, ret^ed as Du Tertre
naively describes it, bien joyeux. From Sauteurs
Lakes Antoine and Levera, which occupy the craters of
extinct volcanoes, can be visited....”
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