Note 130 — LECTURE IV. THE POETRY, WIT, AND WISDOM OF PROVERBS.
Reading edition
Avant traversé rivier, pas juré maman caiman. This and one or two other Haytian proverbs quoted in this volume I have derived from a curious article, Les mœurs et la littérature négres, by Gustave D’Alaux, in the Revue des deux Mondes, Mai 15me, 1852.