Three days of heat, glare, hubbub¹, and anxious suspense² dragged away, and Thursday's gorgeous sunset brought a change. The Danish frigate³, bright with flags and swarming⁴ with sailors, swept in, dropped anchor, and wrapped herself in thunder and white smoke. Soon she lowered a boat, a glittering officer took its tiller-ropes, its long oars⁵ flashed, and it bore away to the fort. But evening fell, a starry⁶ silence reigned⁷, and when a late moon rose we slept.  
Next morning we knew that Captain Erminger, of the frigate, had assumed command over the whole island, declared martial⁸ law, landed his marines, and begun operations. Soon the harbor was populous⁹ again, with refugees returning home. Tom came with his boat. Just as we started landward a schooner¹⁰ came round the bluffs¹¹ bringing the Spaniards. At early twilight¹² these landed and marched with much clatter¹³ through the vacant streets to the town's various points of entrance, there to mount guard, the Danes having gone to scatter¹⁴ the insurgents¹⁵.
 
The pursuing forces, in two bodies, were to move toward each other from opposite ends of the island, spanning it from sea to sea and meeting in the centre, thus entirely¹⁶ breaking up the bands of aimless pillagers into which the insurrection had already dispersed¹⁷. This took but a few days. Buddoe was almost at once trapped by the baldest flatteries of two leading Danish residents and, finding himself without even the honor of armed capture, betrayed his confederates and disappeared.
 
Only one small band of blacks made any marked resistance. Under a certain "Moses" they occupied a hill, hurling¹⁸ down stones upon their assailants, but were soon captured. Many leaders of the revolt were condemned¹⁹ and shot, displaying in most cases a total absence of fortitude²⁰.
 
In less than a week from the day of flight to the ships quiet was restored, and a meeting of planters was adopting rules and rates for the employment of the freed slaves. Some estates resumed work at once; on others the ravages²¹ of the torch had first to be repaired. Some negroes would not work, and it was months before all the windmills on the hills were once more whirling. The Spaniards lingered long, but were finally relieved by a Danish regiment²². Ca............