The Quai (Port-au-Prince). A large crowd accompanies Tisserant to the quay.

The Abbé Tisserant had already embarked on the Malabar, a vessel lying in the roadstead of Port-au-Prince and bound for Europe. He had been accompanied as far as the quay by a considerable crowd of ladies, of young girls and of citizens of various conditions. He had with him three of the priests he had brought to Haiti, the Abbés Bouchet, Arragon and Brissot, who were returning to France. He had said to the crowd on parting from it: “The people hold us in affection; it is not their doing that we are obliged to leave; we are the victims only of the maneuvers of many pretentious men who pose as rationalists and who in fact know how to reason about nothing.”