Jacmel. Entered by 6,000 Indigenous; a blockhouse blows up in the night.

At ten o’clock on the evening of the same day, Cangé and Magloire Ambroise, at the head of their army 6,000 strong, entered Jacmel. These almost naked bands, given over for so long to every kind of privation, respected property and observed the strictest discipline. But in the middle of the night cries of fury broke out against the French, and all the whites came very near to having their throats cut: a European officer named Mansui, on abandoning the blockhouse, had spread a great quantity of powder under the camp beds. Those of the Indigenous who had entered the blockhouse during the night began to smoke as they lay down. A moment later the fortification blew up in an explosion that shook the city. Most of those who were in it fell victim to the cruel malice of the French officer.