if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs

The SQUILL-INSECT. […] So called from ſome ſimilitude to the Squill-fiſh: chiefly, in having a long Body cover'd with a Cruſt compoſed of ſeveral Rings or Plates. The Head is broad and ſquat. He hath a pair of notable ſharp Fangs before, both hooked inward like a Bulls horns.

The future general was born in 1762 in the French sugar colony of Saint-Domingue, in the western half of the island.

His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.