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This, too, used to happen almost constantly in Hispaniola, while

it was infested by the buccaneers, and before the settlement,

improvement, and populousness of the French plantations ( which

now extend round the coast of almost the whole western half of

the island) had given some value to the cattle of the Spaniards,

who still continue to possess, not only the eastern part of the

coast, but the whole inland mountainous part of the country.