| Show HEROES REST IN MARSHY SOIL OF OLD LOUISIANA A persistent le legend leend end which has become com e part of louisiana folklore legend tit at all to the natives who live along barataria Eara Bar tarla ataria bayou in this picturesque tur esque marshy country about twenty miles south of new orleans the natives nat ives I 1 are re C convinced on vi n C ed that napoleon doe does is not sleep in L les es in and that john paul jones great crypt at annapolis honors an unknown sailor they will reverently show enow the visitor three griss grass cov ered graves which they announce with conviction cover the ashes ot of the little corporal 0 of john paul jones and of the pirate lafitte it Is 19 of course historical fact that an expedition was organized to rescue napoleon from st helena but before the expedition under daml you sailed from new orleans napoleon died the say different however they declare that all the activity of 0 sous expedition tion lon was just huggermugger to conceal the fact that while the show went on jean lafitte was actually on his way to st helena on the isle he substituted a man closely resembling sem bling napolon napoleon and smuggled the ex es emperor off st helena Ile lepa but when the sloop was almost within si sight ht of louisiana on the return trip N napoleon died and lafatte buried him at Bar barataria Bara tarla ataria As to jones they insist that th ahk great admiral joined La fittes forces after Us sea victories instead of going to yucatan as history tells us that he died at sea on an expedition and was buried beside napoleon the body buried at annapolis Is just some other fellow identified only by a navy uniform coot coat skeptical visitors may smile but the some of whom claim to be direct descendants of lafatte cross themselves devoutly before the graves and heap them high bl h with flowers every all souls day |
