14679: 1816 visit to Haiti of Quaker missionary and hurricane

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

>From Bob Corbett

I have just loaded up two new files to my web site.

The first is a 5 page description of a visit to Haiti by the Quaker
missionary, Stephen Grellet.  He is quite reminiscent of contemporary
fundamentalist Christian missionaries and was also a great fan of
Alexander Petion.

See:

http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/history/earlyhaiti/grellet.htm

At the very end of his description he has a vivid despription of a
hurricane which hit Port-au-Prince and other towns on August 16, 1816.  I
excerpted just that section and put in with my descritions of natural
disasters in Haiti.

See:

http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/misctopic/disaster/grellet-hurricane.htm

Enjoy and learn!   Bob Corbett