All that
Bolivar saw, and of all that Bolivar wrote. Can human intelligence go
any farther?"
[Footnote 1: Larrazabal, "Vida del Libertador Simon Bolivar," Vol. I. page
404.]
CHAPTER IX
_Bolivar's Expedition and New Exile. He Goes to Guayana_
(1815-1817)
While in Jamaica, Bolivar was as active as he had been in Venezuela. While
he used his pen to teach the world the meaning of the South American
Revolution, and to try and obtain friends for the cause of freedom, he
worked actively in the Island and in other parts of the West Indies to
organize an expedition to the continent.
In this work he was very greatly helped by Luis Brion,--a wealthy merchant
of Curacao,--who sacrificed practically all of his private fortune in
helping the cause of Liberty.
The influence exercised by the Holy Alliance on the governments of Europe
had some effect on the authorities of Jamaica, who hindered the assembling
of munitions of war by Bolivar. He then decided to go to the Republic of
Haiti, after having escaped almost by a miracle, an assassin who, believing
that he was asleep in a hammock where he usually rested, stabbed to death a
man occupying Bolivar's customary place. The assassin was a slave set free
by Bolivar.
On his way to Haiti he learned of the surrender of Cartagena. The President
of Haiti, Alexander Petion, received Bolivar in a most friendly way, and
gave him very substantial assistance in the preparations for his expedition
to the continent.
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