Beautific site, Horrific story

OK, the jury is out on google as to whether or not "Beautific" is a word, but I'm using it anyway.

LE MORNE

Le Morne gets it's name from a very sad story about the slaves who were once brought to Mauritius. Firstly, you should know that there were no people here when the Europeans first settled, so there was no massive war followed by the enslavement of the natives (for once). However, that didn't Europeans from bringing slaves over. Now I am not going into the whole history, but suffice it to say that one day, the slaves had enough and escaped to the top of this mountain. Just shortly thereafter, slavery was abolished and messengers were sent to find the runaways and tell them there were free. When the slaves saw the messengers, they assumed they were about to be re-captured and, rather than submit, they jumped off the cliff in a mass suicide. And so stands this site today, a mountain forever in mourning.