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the Emperor Napoleon.
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CHAPTER XI.

To horse! to horse!

Now there is nothing gives a man such spirit,
Leavening his blood as Cayenne doth a curry,
As going at full speed.Byron.

DEADWOOD RACES.—MAMELUKE.—FETE AT BOSS COTTAGE.—NAPOLEON'S ATTEMPT AT SINGING.—VISIT TO MADAME BERTRAND'S.—THE EMPEROR'S ENGLISH.—PLANTATION HOUSE.—NAPOLEON'S METHOD OF FIGHTING OVER AGAIN HIS BATTLES.

ONE of the many instances of Napoleon's great good nature, and his kindness in promoting my amusement, was on the occasion of the races at Deadwood, which had been instituted by the Honourable Henry John Rous, the present member for Westminster, and which were at that time anticipated by the inhabitants of the island as a kind of jubilee. From having been, as was

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