Note 1 — Chapter IV

Several Haytian men and women were arrested for the murder of children whom they had kidnapped and then offered up to the Vaudoux on the fetish altars somewhere in the mountains near Port-au-Prince. One of the prisoners, a negress, turned informer and told how the papaloi bribed men to dig up the newly buried dead from the cemeteries, where many graves had been found disturbed.—See “Memoirs of Moreau de St. Mery.”