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known to the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV., his Royal Highness desired that Mr. D——— might be presented to him. and his Royal Highness was so gratified with the interview, that he afterwards knighted Mr. D———, who subsequently returned to the island of which he was so much enamoured.


I asked Napoleon if he had remarked, when at Sandy Bay, three singularly formed rocks, shaped like sugar loaves, and called Lot's Wife and Daughters. He replied that he had. I then related to him an anecdote connected with the largest of the three. More than half a century had elapsed since two slaves, who preferred a freebooting life to one of labour and subjection, secreted themselves in a cave half way up the declivity which terminates the spiral rock called "Lot's Wife." From this stronghold their nocturnal sallies and depredations were carried on with great success, and their retreat remaining for a

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