Then, by means of an interpreter, he reproached them with refusing to continue to supply provisions to the Spaniards.

"The God who protects me," he said, "will punish you.

You know what has happened to those of my followers who have rebelled against me; and the dangers which they encountered in their attempt to cross to Haiti; while those who went at my command,[24] made the passage without difficulty.

Soon, too, shall the divine vengeance fall on you; this very night shall the moon change her colour and lose her light, in testimony of the evils which shall be sent upon you from the skies." [Footnote 24: This was a gratuitous assumption: as the admiral had as yet no tidings of the success of Mendez.] RESULT OF PREDICTION.
The night was fine: the moon shone down in full brilliancy.

But, at the appointed time, the predicted phenomenon took place, and the wild howls of the savages proclaimed their abject terror.