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NEGRESS TRADERS BARGAINING IN THE MARKET PLACE |
VULTURE OF THE MEXICAN MARAUDERS |
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| 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 |