perhaps to universal savagery. Everywhere the sins of the past
have borne the same fruit, have furnished the colonies with
social enigmas that mock the wisdom of legislators, a dragon-crop
of problems that no modern political science has yet proved
competent to deal with. Can it even be hoped that future
sociologists will be able to answer them, after Nature--who never
forgives--shall have exacted the utmost possible retribution for
all the crimes and follies of three hundred years?









Part Two - Martinique Sketches.




CHAPTER I.
LES PORTEUSES.



I.