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Negress Traders Bargaining in the Market Place Vulture of the Mexican Marauders

NEGRESS TRADERS BARGAINING IN THE MARKET PLACE

VULTURE OF THE MEXICAN MARAUDERS

The southernmost island of the Leeward group, Martinique specially endears itself to France as the birthplace of the Empress Josephine; and here, too, Madame de Maintenon, another famous figure in French history, passed most of her early youth. A variety of colour and type prevails among the present-day native islanders. Negroes predominate, but half-breeds — mulattoes, Copres, Chabins, Matés — form a large proportion of the population He is one of a band of desperadoes who, fired with fierce instincts of rebellion and intrigue, steep themselves in a sea of lawlessness, and terrorise the peaceful populace of Mexico as did the fabled trolls the simple folk of Scandinavia