Lives in Cricket No 26 - HV Hesketh-Prichard

31 Pearson. It was agreed that he would go to Haiti – it was Hex’s idea, after he had sailed past the island eighteen months before on his Caribbean venture – and report back for Pearson’s new paper, the Daily Express. No white man had crossed Haiti or ventured into the interior since the uprising in 1803. So he and Kate set out in October. Though people had written about Haiti, most of them seem to have visited it very briefly. Hex was to go to places where he was warned not to go, and to come back with a better story as a result. Horsham to Haiti