Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-25
Horrors in Hayti.
and Other Terrible Prscti-
rom the Home Journal.

From the Home Journal
 We left Jamaica in lats July or early Au- gust, and steamed across through indigo seas the oircuit of the entire island, shooting into sheltered harbors here and there
 Nearly alwsys the mountains lay like great iridescent lizards against the borizon-mon- strous sauriAns spraWling in blue or in bronze, green against the edge of the sky i; singular and fantastic mountain piles in whose hidden gorses the half wild negro tribes live and spawn.
 The infamies said to be practiced by this population are beyond description Canni- bAlism is said to prevail, the white man is held in the greatest abhorrsnce, and we heard of the rooted determination of the jet black to exterminate the yellow skin, feeble mulatto caste of the seaports. Our captain warned us not to spend the night on shore in any of the ports we visited, for fear of personal violence or simple malignity The island is pretty thickly peopled. and di- yided between the Haytians of the west aad l the light-skinned, intelligent. French speak ing San Domingoans of the east
 The greatest dissimilarity exists between those geographical divisions. The San Do mingo people are full of energy and push, eager for railroads and telseraphs, enlight- ened and more or less civilized. The Hayti- ans are reported by those who know them intimately to be savage, depraved opposed to every form of white civilization, and de- voured by the most bal.ful vices and dis eases They speak a French jsrgon very hard to understand lingo made up of lace rated French coniunctions and genders, pien- tifully gprinkled with words of their own coinage There are peculiarly horrible mala- dies among them their sense of decency is of the slightest, and their reputation for trickery is such that we have had to guard ourselves constantly against their cunning and fraud
 The country is one of striking loveliness, 8 flower garden stocked with the rArest Orowths. We saw the finest growths of rose- wood and mahogany, woods smothered in immortal vines, Rn atmosphere laden with suggestions of blossoning spices but to get 10 all this, nothing but difficult bridle paths or inaccessible lanes, with here and there road wide enough for carriage. We met troops of silent, malicious-looking, cblique- dancing blacks as we rode on horseback or wandered through ths towns; creatures that gazed with engagement and horror to see whites invading their demssne One old wo man riding on horse was so startled by our cayaIcade that she forgot herself and was suddenly taken under the chin by an over arehing limb, lifted of her animal and ds- posited not very gently on the ground below, to the infinite amusement of the party
 It was painful and shocking to hear the stories of Haytian depravity to which Ws had to hstsn-the foul suPerstltTons, the rank barbarism, the total illiteracy and indif- ference to education prevailing in the eoun- try, We were told that g traveller had dis covered human flesh for sale at one of the markets of the interior, and had bought piece of it to bring away with him as curi- oaity and as piece of evidence of the state of things there.
 Witchcraft, voodouism, nameless immoral ity are rampant. If there is any Christiani- ty it is of the lowest type. The grossest corruption testers in the municipal organiza tion and in the administrative scheme, If there is anything that can be called such.