Place Pétion (Port-au-Prince). Pierrot inspects the massed troops there.

President Pierrot left Saint-Marc on 6 May in the morning and halted at Mont-Rouis. On the 7th he set out from there at eight o’clock in the morning; he was accompanied by General J. Paul, Secretary of State for the Interior. He halted on the Poix plantation, which he left on the 8th. He made his solemn entry into Port-au-Prince by carriage at four o’clock in the afternoon, to the sound of one hundred and one guns and the ringing of the bells of the church. Curiosity had drawn out to meet him almost the whole population of Port-au-Prince, of both sexes. This immense, dense crowd obstructed the passage of the carriage, above all in the Grand’rue, and the carriage was perforce obliged to stop from time to time; Pierrot had no confidence in the inhabitants of Port-au-Prince, and so he showed himself impatient at the slowness with which his carriage bore him to the church; he reached it at last and a Te Deum was sung; then he mounted his horse and inspected the troops of the national guard, of the government guard and of the garrison, massed on the Place Pétion.