History of the Buccaneers of America Part 22

[87] _'Ce moyen etoit a la verite un peu violent, mais c'etoit l'unique pour mettre les Espagnols a la raison.'_

[88] _Theatro Naval._ fol. 61, 1.

[89] _Relation du Voyage de M. de Gennes_, p. 106. Paris, 1698.

[90] Pere Labat relates a story of a ridiculous effort in mechanical ingenuity, in which M. de Gennes succeeded whilst he was Governor at _Saint Christopher_. 'He made an Automaton in the likeness of a soldier, which marched and performed sundry actions. It was jocosely said that M.

de Gennes might have defended his government with troops of his own making. His automaton soldier eat victuals placed before it, which he digested, by means of a dissolvent,'--_P. Labat_, Vol. V. p. 349.

[91] See p. 207, near the bottom.