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founder of a thriving town, father of a thriving
family, and possessor of a thriven fortune; and
the interest is kept up through the narrative,
with that mingled pathos and humour, keen
observation and simplicity, which Mr. Galt is
quite singular in depicting. Our hero, in his
first marriage, sets out with the following cata-
logue of household goods :-

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peevish brat, by giving him a very smart slap | one man's soul may be sent to animate any for lack of other stuff, be a clout to the knees in the face; it must have been a tingler-for unoccupied body. Were we not under the of blue trousers and such a one I found in it left the marks of my little spiteful paw upon influence of an age in which nothing is believed the niece of my friend and neighbour, Mr. his cheek. This infantile outrage was followed without "confirmation strong as holy writ,' Zerobabel L. Hoskins. * by summary justice; and I was locked up by and not even that without a good deal of ex- "I happened to fall in with this gentlemy indignant father in an adjoining room, to amination, we should be strongly tempted to man; and, without thinking of any serious purundergo solitary imprisonment in the dark. believe Mr. Galt was in possession of some such pose, I sometimes, of a sabbath-evening, called Here I began to howl and scream most abo- spell; so actual, so individual, are the charac- at the house where he boarded with his family, minably; which was no bad step towards ters he sketches, or rather creates. He pos- and there I soon discovered, in the household liberation, since those who were not inclined sesses, in a most eminent degree, that peculiar talents of Miss Judith, his niece, just the sort to pity me, might be likely to set me free for talent which, to this day, makes Robinson of woman that was wanted to heed the bringthe purpose of abating a nuisance. At length Crusoe and his lonely island a thing of tangible ing up of my little boy. This discovery, howa generous friend appeared to extricate me memory and actual existence. In few of his ever, to tell the truth quietly, was first made from jeopardy ;—and that generous friend was works is this power more displayed than in the by her uncle. I I guess, Squire Lawrie,' said no other than the man I had so wantonly volumes now before us: Laurie Todd is the he, one evening, the squire has considerable molested by assault and battery;-it was the fireside relation of one whose outgoings and muddy time on't since his old woman went to teader-hearted doctor himself, with a lighted ingoings we have almost witnessed, a shrewd, pot.' Ah, Rebecca! she was but twenty-onecandle in his hand and a smile upon his coun- industrious Scotchman,-one of the best speci-Now, squire, you see,' continued Mr. Zerobabel tenance, which was still partially red, from mens of a people whose cautious perseverance L. Hoskins, that ere being the circumstance, the effects of my petulance. I sulked and is their "open sesame" to the gates of pro- you should be a-making your calculations for sobbed, and he fondled and soothed till I sperity. We trace Lawrie Todd through a very another spec;' and he took his segar out of his began to brighten. Goldsmith, who, in re- varied career of mingled hardships and success, mouth, and trimming it on the edge of the gard to children, was like the village preacher till, from a raw lad, with only a hammer to snuffer-tray, added, Well, if so be as you're he has so beautifully described,-for knock on the head the nail of his fortune, he is a-going to do so, don't you go to stand like a *Their welfare pleased him and their cares distressed,'-a nail-maker: he finishes his autobiography, pump, with your arm up, as if you would seized the propitious moment of returning give the sun a black-eye, but do it right good humour; so he put down the candle, away.' I told him it was a thing I could not and began to conjure. He placed three hats, yet think of; that my wound was too fresh, which happened to be in the room, upon the my loss too recent. If that ben't particular,' carpet, and a shilling under each :-the shilreplied he, Squire Lawrie, I'm a pumpkin, lings, he told me, were England, France, and and the pigs may do their damnedst with me. Spain. Hey, presto, cockolorum!' cried the But I ain't a pumpkin, the squire he knows that.' I assured him, without very deeply doctor, and, lo! on uncovering the shillings which had been dispersed, each beneath a sedunkling the truth, that I had met with few parate hat, they were all found congregated men in America who knew better how many "I reckon, I was no politician at five years blue beans it takes to make five. old, and therefore might not have wondered Squire Lawrie,' said he, is a puffing of a parat the sudden revolution which brought Engley voo, but I sells no wooden nutmegs. Now land, France, and Spain, all under one crown; look ye'here, squire. There be you, spinning but as I was also no conjuror, it amazed me your thumbs with a small child that ha'n't beyond measure. Astonishment might have got no mother: so I calculate, if you make amounted to awe for one who appeared to me Jerusalem fine-nails, I guess you can't a hipgifted with the power of performing miracles, pen such a small child for no man's moneyI could not but if the good nature of the man had not obwhich is tarnation bad.' viated my dread of the magician; but from acknowledge the good sense of his remark. that time, whenever the doctor came to visit He drew his chair close in front of me, and my father, taking the segar out of his mouth, and beating off the ashes on his left thumb-nail, replaced it. Having then given a puff, he raised his right hand aloft, and laying it emphatically down on his knee, said in his wonted slow and phlegmatic tone, Well, I guess that 'ere young woman, my niece-she ben't five-and-twentyshe'll make a heavenly splice! I have known that 'ere young woman 'liver the milk of our thirteen cows afore eight a morning, and then fetch crumple and her calf from the Bush.Dang that 'ere Crumple! we never had no such heifer afore-she and her calf cleared out every night, and wouldn't come home on no account, no never, 'till Judy fetch'd her right away, when done milking t'other thirteen." No doubt, Mr. Hoskins,' said I, Miss Judith will make a capital farmer's wife in the country, but I have no cows to milk- all my live stock is a sucking bairn.' By the Gods of Jacob's father-in-law she's just the cut for that.But the squire knows I ain't agoing to trade her. If she suits Squire Lawrie. - good, says I-I shan't ask no nothing for her; but I can tell the squire as how Benjamin S. Thudswhat is blacksmith in our village-offered me two hundred and fifty dollars-gospel, by the living jingo!-in my hand right away; but you see, as how, he was an almighty boozer, though for blacksmithing a prime hammer,I said no, no, and there she is still to be hadand I reckon Squire Lawrie may go the whole hog with her, and make a good operation.' "An eclipse," thought I.

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"We accordingly went to housekeeping in a small wooden building, No. 22, Nassau Street, having only a ground floor, which I partitioned off into a store, kitchen, and bed-room, which also served for our parlour. It was twelve feet by six in extent, and I will rehearse the catalogue of our plenishing, for the benefit of other young folk. We had a bed and bedstead, good and most comfortable of their kind-a fine table worth no less than half a dollar-three Windsor chairs, one for each of us, and a spare one for a friend-a soup pot, a tea-kettle, likewise a tea-pot, six cups and saucers, three soupplates, which on days of fish and steaks served as well as plain ones could have done-three pewter tea-spoons, and two soup ditto of the same material; three knives and forks, a girdle for cakes, a frying-pan, and a gridiron-it was enough it was all we wanted, we were all the

world to one another."

The whole history of this first love is as simply as it is touchingly told, though too long for extract; but the account of his matrimonial "specs" is too characteristic to be omitted; we shall therefore go on to his second.

I plucked his gown to share the good man's smile;' a game at romps constantly ensued, and we were always cordial friends and merry play lows. Our unequal companionship varied ewhat, in point of sports, as I grew older but it did not last long;-my senior playmate ced, alas! in his forty-fifth year, some months aher I had attained my eleventh. His death, has been thought, was hastened by mental nquietude;"'—if this supposition be true, ever did the turmoils of life subdue a mind "If a man marry once for love, he is a fool to Dure warm with sympathy for the misfortune of our fellow-creatures;—but his character is expect he may do so twice-it cannot be there. familiar to every one who reads:-in all the fore, I say, in the choice of a second wife, one accounts of his virtues and his scruple of prudence is worth a pound of pas. does, his genius and absurdities, his know.sion. I do not assert that he should have an ge of nature and his ignorance of the world, his compassion for another's woe' was always predominant; and my trivial story humouring a froward child, weighs but a feather in the recorded scale of his bene

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Lawrie Todd; or, the Settlers in the Woods.
By John Galt, Esq., author of the "Annals
of the Parish." &c. 3 vols. 12mo. London,
1830. Colburn and Bentley.
THERE is an eastern superstition, on which,
in the Spectator," the pretty tale of the
"Dervish and the King" is founded, that
by the repetition of certain cabalistic words,

eye to dowry; for unless it is a great sum,
such as will keep all the family in gentility,
I think a small fortune one of the greatest
faults a young woman can have; not that I
object to the money on its own account, but
only to its effects in the airs and vanities it
begets in the silly maiden, especially if her
husband profits by it. For this reason I did
not choose my second wife from the instincts
of fondness, nor for her parentage, nor for
her fortune; neither was I deluded by fair
looks. I had, as I have said, my first-born
needing tendance; and my means were small.
while my cares were great. I accordingly
looked about for a sagacious woman-one that
not only knew the use of needles and shears,
but that the skirt of an old green coat might,

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The third-for he ventures on a third-is in as good keeping.

What if this voyage to Scotland be a feedam to bring back a young wife for a companion to my daughters? A young one naturally ran in my head; because it was not to be expected that a woman advanced in life would be willing to leave her friends and native land; and I was not yet in a condition to wind up my concerns, and bid a final adieu to the land of refuge."

He meets with a fair widow, and courageously offers.

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Discovering by this plain speaking of Mr. Hos-| But we must revert: a farm he had taken | I, of all this breaking of banks, and revalling kins how the cat jumped. to use one of his in Jersey has failed utterly; he returns home, of manufacturers, that every other year bring own terms we entered more into the marrow after seeking, as is usual in such cases, the both the old and new world almost to an end ? of the business, till it came to pass, that I made assistance of his friends; and the following for at that time trade was suffering greatly in a proposal for Miss Judith, and soon after a scene greets him New York. ''Deed!' replied Mrs. Micklepaction was settled between me and her, that "It was late in the evening before I reached thrift; there never will be any other sort of when the Fair American arrived from Pa- the village in the neighbourhood of which my upshot than what we have seen in by-gone lermo, we should be married; for she had a little farm was situated. A faint streak of the times. Trade's just like the farming, someshare in the codfish venture by that bark, and twilight still served to shew the outline of the times a good, and sometimes a bad harvest; we counted that the profit might prove a nest-houses between me and the western sky, and and so it will to the conclusion. There's no egg; and it did so, to the blithsome tune of here and there a light twinkled in a window. steadiness in trade, more than in the seasons. four hundred and thirty-three dollars, which The voice of the river came to me as if many It was this persuasion that made my son loup the old gentleman counted out to me in the spirits were murmuring about man: it was a off the treadles and go into the woods, where, hard on the wedding-day." solemn time. As I drew near to my own if he now and then meet with a bad crop, he's house, I saw the window-shutters were closed, still as certain of making a living; and as men but I discerned with surprise and a throbbing increase and multiply, the value of his land bosom, that more than the wonted candles will rise in the natural way, and without the were burning within. With a trembling artifice of speculation.' hand I opened the door, at which I was met He sets off into the woods; and his houseby Phemy, our old servant. She came to-hold is thus described :wards me softly on her tiptoes, and raising "My family consisted at this time, besides her spread hands close to her cheeks, said, the old cock and hen, of five chickens; Robin Hush, hush!' The gloomy, worldly fancies was fifteen, and Charley twelve; the other which had hovered like ravens about me all three were girls of something more than eighthe way from the landing at the ferry, were teen months between the two eldest; but instantly dispersed. In the name of heaven, though so young, none of them were without Phemy, what's the matter?' She said no-hands. Susy, the eldest, could do all kind My conversation with Mrs. Greenknowe thing, but beckoned me to follow her, and of household work and spin, as well as bake in the garden was to a certain extent satis- she conducted me straight into the parlour, bread. Mary was a perfect nonpareil at knitfactory. She had no objection to change her which was in the back part of the house, ting stockings, and had sewed a sampler with life, nor was she altogether averse to crossing looking into the garden. There sat my wife the Lord's Prayer in the middle, surrounded the Atlantic; but she did not think herself in the midst of our children; seeing me enter, by the initials of all our names, in different justified to give any answer on the main she looked up; instead, however, of speaking, stitches, that was, by competent judges, much point, which concerned me, because we were she only moved her hand in a way that at thought of, at least they said so." as yet but in an ordinary measure acquainted, once bespoke silence, and told of the presence The hardships they endured, and the enand it was necessary to consult her friends. of sorrow; a second glance at the group in-couragements which they sustained, are most I could not but acknowledge the good sense formed me that one of the children was not admirably brought out. and prudence of what she said; but when I there. "What is this? and where is Sarah ?' "Of all the sights in this world, the most recalled to mind the fond confidence in each said I, scarcely able to articulate. My wife likely to daunt a stout heart, and to infect a other with which Rebecca and I, with only my without speaking rose, and lifting one of the resolute spirit with despondency, that of a daily earnings, committed ourselves into the candles, for two-a most unusual thing- newly-chopped tract of the forest certainly hands of Providence, I could not but think were on the table, and walked before me to a bears away the bell. Hundreds on hundreds of that the gathering of gear makes the heart small bedchamber, which opened from the vast and ponderous trees covering the ground sordid. Even in my second marriage there parlour: There!' said she, pushing open the for acres, like the mighty slain in a field of was little of human foresight; though there door, bursting at the same time into vehe- battle, all to be removed, yea, obliterated, was not that drawing of hallowed affection ment weeping. I lifted the curtain aside, before the solitary settler can raise a meal of which made me defy poverty with Rebecca, and there, indeed, lay our sweet and beautiful potatoes, seemingly offer the most hopeless yet a plain and sincere reliance between Judith child a disfigured corpse; I staggered back task which the industry of man can struggle and me saved all the cost and trouble of con- into a chair, and covering my face with my with. My heart withered as I contemplated tracts and settlements;-we joined hands, in a hands, prayed inwardly that I might be for- the scene; and my two little boys came close low estate, for better and worse, and neither given for having thought so bitterly of the to me, and inquired, with the low accents of of us had ever cause to repent the patriarchal loss of worldly substance. The lovely child anxiety and dread, if the moving of these simplicity of that union, though it was founded had gone out with two of her brothers in the enormous things was to be our work. Formore on convenience than on impassioned love. cart, and in coming back something had tunately, before I had time to answer their Indeed, after the death of Rebecca, it was not startled the horses, by which she was thrown question, a sudden turn of the road brought in the power of my nature to love again. My out, and a wheel went over her. It was not us in sight of the village, where the settlers spirit had been mingled with hers; and when possible that any impartial parent could more in all directions were busy logging and burnthe Lord was pleased to remove her from this dearly love a child than I did that sweet bud; ing. The liveliness of this spectacle, the blazworld, she carried away to heaven all that but verily we are wonderfully made, fashioned ing of the timber, and the rapid destruction holy enthusiasm which the graces of her cha- in darkness, and living in mystery. The sight of the trees, rendered, indeed, any answer unracter had awakened in my bosom, and which of her corpse lightened my heart; I felt, and necessary. They beheld at once, that so far blended in such congenial affinity with the surely it was not sinful so to feel, as if, in the from the work being hopeless, the ground was fine thoughts of her own innocent and beau-accident, there was an admonishment to me, laid open for tillage, even, as it were, while tiful mind. While she lived, I had no care, to consider the blessings still spared to me in we were looking at it; and we entered Babelneither anxiety, nor any worldly fear: if at the young olive-plants by which my table was mandel, re-assured in all our hopes. The viltimes a flake of vapour appeared in the clear surrounded. I rose from the chair into which lage as yet consisted but of shanties and logblue welkin of my spirit, it was like the fea- I had sunk down, and leading my wife back houses. The former is a hut or wigwam, thers which are shaken from the golden wings into the parlour, took a seat beside her: made of bark laid upon the skeleton of a rude of the summer morning, or the glorious flakes strange, that in such a time I should expe- roof, and is open commonly on the one side, in the track of the setting sun. When I laid rience, instead of an augmentation of grief nigh to which, during the night, the inmates her head in the grave I felt no sorrow, but and care, a holy tranquillity diffused within who sleep within, raise a great fire to keep rather a solemn delight, believing I had cause my bosom, and a resignation to the will of themselves warm; some say to protect them to think I was beloved by a gracious being, Heaven, that could have come from no reso- from wolves and other wild beasts. Notwithwho was then brightening in the presence of lution of mine." standing the rough appearance of the shanty, it the Light of Light. Yes: often when the stars yet affords a shelter with which weary axemen are all in their splendour, I have a sublime are well content. I never, however, had a right persuasion that at some one of those windows solid sound sleep in one; for as they are open, and apertures of heaven, Rebecca looks down I had a constant fear of snakes crawling in upon upon the earth with eyes of youthful kindness me: nor was it imaginary; for that very night, remembering me," the first we passed in Babelmandel, the boys

A treatise on political economy is contained in the ensuing few sentences:

"We then discoursed of trade, which at that time she said was in a poor way about Glasgow, and was the cause of their coming to America. What will be the upshot,' said

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René Caillie's Journey to Timbuctoo.

(Third notice.)

ourselves to rest, when Charley, the youngest, IN our two preceding Numbers we have tracked felt something like a man's finger wimbling in the traveller from the Rio Nunez, on the side under his neck, and, starting up, beheld a large of Sierra Leone, to the Joliba, to Kankan, and garter-snake twisting and twining where he had thence towards Jenné a large and important made his pillow. We were pacified in our alarm by an assurance that it was of a harm. town, situated upon a tributary to the river. the banks of the river the same language is

less kind; but truly it will be a long time betore I am satisfied that any serpent can ever be a commendable bed-fellow. Saving that molestation, we passed, however, a comfortable right. At first it was proposed, on account of the snakes, that we should alternately keep watch: but when I had the watch myself, a drowsiness fell upon me, and shut up my eyes

in

Jenné is inhabited by Mandingoes, Foulahs,
Bambaras, and Moors; and its population
amounts to eight or ten thousand souls. It

was formerly independent, but now belongs to
a small kingdom governed by one Ségo-Ahma
dou, a Foulah and fanatical Mussulman. It
is a place of much traffic, has a stirring market,
in which African and European commodities are

on the 31st of March (says the author), at six in the morning, we started in a northern direction. At seven we passed the village of Corocoïla, situated on the right bank. This place contained from five to six hundred inhabitants, chiefly Foulahs, and also some who came originally from Jenné. In all the villages on spoken as at Timbuctoo and Jenné; it is called the Kissour. The Foulah language also is spoken in those places. The banks of the river were still covered with numerous herds of

oxen. At ten o'clock we lay-to about two miles to the north of Cobi. Between this small village and Corocoila is a pretty little island, about two miles in circumference, covered with

sleep till the sun was more than an hour high sold, and carries on an intercourse with Timbuc- the finest vegetation; I was astonished to find and every one at work. Betimes, after taking too by means of canoes and vessels of as much as it uninhabited. In the evening we made three

some breakfast, at which we had hemlock-tea -a pleasant and salutary drink, though not in much repute at Bridals-we buckled on our knapsacks, and proceeded with our guide in quest of the lot I had bargained for, and which we easily found, as it answered very correctly to the description received from the agent. It was a pleasant situation, looking up the forks of the two rivers. I decided at once on being content with it, and forthwith we began to seek for a suitable place to raise a house on. This was not difficult to find, and I made choice of a rising ground near a pretty spring, as the site of our future home. But as it was

necessary in the mean time to provide a place of temporary shelter, we went nearer to the village with our shanty, and for divers reasons. First, A lone man, neither a giant nor a Samson, with two little boys, I thought too weak a garrison against wolves and bears. Second, By the kind recommendation of the agent, I was to be made a boss on the road; and, third, as the boys were to work with the guide, with whom I contracted to clear five acres for me, I wished to be with them at night; which could not have been accomplished had we sat down at once upon my own land. So we raised our shanty within the boundaries marked out for the town plot, on a rising bank overlooking the

main river, and near to a large shanty which E a score of the axemen and carpenters bad constructed for themselves. Our shanty was completed in good time before the evening; 30 that when we dressed our supper at the fire here the door, I could not but acknowledge thankfulness that we had reached the Mat Pisgah of our pilgrimage. The wallwas surmounted; I thought myself safe ng the leaves on the other side; and at a time the boys being already in the of Morpheus-I stretched myself beside

dem, and courted sleep."

seventy and eighty tons,'
, which descend the
river Dhioliba (Joliba) to Cabra, the port of that
city. In one of these vessels did our traveller
embark, and on the 13th of March left Jenné
for the grand object of all his toils. The
general direction of the river appears to be to
the north of east: the vessel proceeded at the
rate of about two miles an hour; and the banks
are crowned by populous villages.

"About two o'clock (he tells us in his first
day's journal) we reached the majestic Dhioliba,
which flows slowly from W.N.W. At this
part it is very deep, and about three times the
width of the Seine at the Pont-Neuf. It takes
a turn of about two miles to the south; its
banks are low and very barren. The distance
from Jenné to this river is, I should imagine,
about ten miles. After flowing two miles to
the southward, it turns to the N.N.E. About
four o'clock we arrived at Cougalia, where
had previously crossed the river. Aided by the
current, I suppose we made about two miles an

hour."

The ne

miles towards the north, for the purpose of reaching Cona, the first village in the country of Banan, which the negroes call Banan-dougou (land of Banan). Cona contains about eight hundred inhabitants, all negroes. There are in the country some Mandingoes and Foulahs, who are engaged in trade. It is situated on the right bank of the river, and its environs are marshy. The people on board our vessel purchased tamarinds, earthen pots, and untanned ox-hides used for packing. The inhabitants brought us milk, giraumons, and other articles. In this place I met two Moors from Adrar, owners of a very large canoe, of eighty tons burden at least. They were going to Timbuctoo to dispose of the merchandise they had bought at Jenné. A small vessel of seven or eight tons was employed to carry themselves and provisions for their use, and it followed the large canoe at various distances; for the latter, encumbered with merchandise, advanced but slowly.

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* Banan is independent of Ségo-Ahmadou: "it is situated upon the right bank of the river, and extends The inhabitants are all far to the east. Mahometans; and the slaves, who are very numerous, are employed in tilling the ground. The people build canoes, and make voyages to Jenne and Timbuctoo. They are very rich in

By the 24th of March the canoe got to Coona, a village inhabited by Foulahs, who live in straw huts, and where they found other canoes, all going to Timbuctoo. Here they re-embarked in a larger vessel, laden with rice, millet, cotton, honey, vegetable butter, and other productions of the country. herds of oxen, sheep, and goats, and rear "There was on the shore a great concourse great quantities of poultry. They are very of people, all engaged in some kind of labour; industrious, and manufacture cotton stuffs, they had pitched tents to shelter themselves which they sell to the people of the neighfrom the heat, which was excessive. bouring towns and villages. The cotton tree, groes offered us their merchandise for sale. On which they cultivate, flourishes exceedingly in seeing them, I almost imagined myself in a this place. They also make cloth from the market on the banks of the Senegal. The wool of sheep, for the purpose of traffic. I saw village is situated on a little eminence, and is the inhabitants, who never go out unless armed scantily shaded by ronniers and mimosas. The with pikes, and bows and arrows. They have heat was suffocating. I went to visit the woolly hair and a very black complexion, and are in other respects like the Mandingoes, to market, which was very badly provided; for it was then the time of the Ramadan: there was which race indeed they belong, though they a little milk, some pistachios, dry and fresh We regret that our limits will not permit us fish, maumies, and other light articles of food. speak another language. On the 2d of April the expedition reached #troduce Mr. Zerobabel L. Hoskins-an The people looked at me with indifference. the mouth of a great and remarkable lake, ent American—more fully on the scene; The young girls, who offered their merchan-called Debo, which is divided into two Bellie Waft, a most weariful bodie to poor dise for sale, had a very pleasing mode of branches, by islands and a barrier. The boats Lone, but a most amusing one to the reader: address; but I bought nothing, on account of took the upper or northern branch for about we can do, is to give them a most cordial the presence of the Foulahs, who are even fifteen miles : "It extends in an easterly etter of recommendation to the public. We Iest in these volumes the visit to Scot./more fanatical than the Moors, and who, if direction, and is surrounded by extensive they had seen me eat, would have set me down marshes. Land is visible on every side. hand; the humour borders on absurdity; or, for an infidel." When we had advanced as far as the midto borrow one of the Americanisms for an opi- Ever and anon passing or stopping at villages, dle of the first division, three of the large 1200, it is, as Mr. Hoskins says of the bear's embrace, “ ridiculous strong." But we part "A vessel of sixty or eighty tons burden is about boats fired some muskets, to salute this mawith our anthor in high good humour: we ninety or one hundred feet long, twelve or fourteen broad jestic lake, and the crew of each boat shouted at midships, and draws six or seven feet depth of water. These canoes, whether large or small, are generally fra- with all their might Salem! Salem! regile; and it is astonishing how they bear the heavy cargoes peating the cry several times. We stood off with which they are laden, and which consist of rice, from the eastern bank, and navigated with millet, butter, honey, onions, pistachios, colat-nuts, In addi- great caution: the lake was calm, and the water stuffs, and various kinds of preserved articles. The current was not perceptible on tion to their cargo they frequently have on board forty clear. or fifty slaves, half of whom remain on deck. The crew its surface; the depth of the part which we consists of sixteen or eighteen sailors, two steersmen, navigated was twelve or thirteen feet. a superior, who acts as captain."

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weld sooner, as a mere question of utility, se the perusal of these pages than a whole tary of books on emigration; and to the adof Mr. Galt's previous works we can 27ay, his youngest child is likely to share the general fate of the youngest-that of being a favourite.

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canoes were merely rowed, and advanced very | sisting of fish, milk, colat-nuts, pistachios, &c. that the major had been recommended by a slowly. I could not recover from my sur- The town of Cabra is narrow, and extends Tripolitan house to an old Moor, who, not prise at seeing so great a mass of water in east and west; the houses are built of earth, having convenience to lodge him, transferred the heart of the country. There was some- with terraced roofs, and have only a ground-him to his hospitality. Laing, he added, never thing very majestic in the sight. About five floor; few of them are well built, being chiefly laid aside his European dress, and used to give in the evening we arrived off Gabibi, a small cabins,-for the richer class of people prefer out that he had been sent by his master the fishing village on the right bank of the lake.living at Timbuctoo, the centre of commerce. King of England, for the purpose of making The huts of this village are made of straw, The inhabitants of Cabra, about a thousand or himself acquainted with Timbuctoo and the and of a round form. Since we entered the twelve hundred in number, are all employed, wonders it contains. It would appear that the lake we had stood to the N. E. We took either in landing the various merchandise traveller had openly taken a plan of Timbucour departure from Gabibi, and at sun-set I brought from Jenné, or in conveying it to too; for the same Moor told me, in his simple saw, for the first time since I left the coast, Timbuctoo. For this purpose they make use way, that he had written down every thing in it. that luminary sink into a sort of ocean. We of asses and camels. The slaves do not carry Other Moors, whom I questioned respecting proceeded along the shore, at some distance loads on their heads; this would be a bad Laing, merely told me that the major ate little, from it, in the direction of W. N. W. The speculation for their masters, for the poor and that he lived entirely on bread, eggs, and boatmen sang while they pushed along the creatures would soon be worn out, as the road poultry. I moreover learned, that he was torcanoe with their poles. We observed large leading to the town consists of quicksand, mented to say that there is but one God, and blocks of granite on the shore. We brought- which renders walking very difficult. At that Mahomet is his prophet; but he always to about eleven at night off Didhiover, a large Cabra a market is daily held for the sale of all stopped at the words, There is but one village, inhabited by Foulahs, who have only sorts of merchandise from Soudan. The town God.' They then called him cafir and infidel; straw huts, like those of the pastoral Foulahs." contains a little mosque, surrounded by a but, without ill-treating him, left him free to The account of this inland sea is very tower or minaret. To the west of the town think and pray in his own way. Sidi-Abdalstriking, and may strengthen the theory of there are some specimens of the balanitis lahi, whom I often questioned as to whether those who conjecture that the Niger finally ægyptiaca, and small gardens of tobacco: this the major had been insulted during his stay loses itself in some vast interior morass. latter plant, however, does not thrive, and at Timbuctoo, always replied in the negative; Farther down, the little fleet had the pre-seldom grows higher than six or seven inches. shaking his head, to give me to understand, datory tribe of Soorgoos or Tooariks upon the On the east side there are some date-trees, that they would have been sorry to annoy banks; and they seem to be the dread of all which are visible from a distance. The al- him. This toleration may be accounted for by around, both on land and water-as the Fa- most constant inundation of the marshes in the fact, that the Moors who reside at Timlatahs are to the west. the neighbourhood of Cabra prevents the in- buctoo come from Tripoli, Algiers, and MoHere a spirituous drink is made from an habitants from cultivating rice." rocco, and that, being in the habit of seeing herb that grows in the marshes, called kondoo, From the foregoing extracts the nature of Christians in their own countries, they are which is gathered by the negroes, the stalks the country may be understood. With regard less liable to be offended at their worship and dried and pounded, and warm water being to Timbuctoo itself, the author's description their manners. For instance, Sidi-Abdallahi, poured on the powder, it communicates its varies so much from preceding accounts, that who came from Tatta, a town near Cape Mosaccharine qualities to the filter. There were we must reserve the particulars and comparison gador, was not inimical to the Christians. alligators in the river. On the 19th of April for a separate paper; and in the mean while Thus it may easily be conceived that the major the traveller "arrived at a place where the extract the melancholy details which M. Caillié was free to inspect every part of the town, and river separates into two branches: the prin- furnishes touching the murder of our lamented even to enter the mosques. It would appear cipal of these might be three-quarters of a mile countryman Major Laing. that, after he had made himself completely acbroad, running gently E.S.E.; the direction "I employed the remainder of the time I quainted with Timbuctoo, he wished to see of the other is E. by N.; it is deep, and its stayed in Timbuctoo in collecting information Cabra and the Dhioliba. But had he left the breadth is from thirty-five to forty paces: and respecting the unfortunate death of Major city in the day-time he would have incurred about one o'clock P.M. we arrived at the port Laing, which I had heard mentioned at Jenné, the greatest danger from the Tooariks, who of Cabra. I speedily," continues he, "went and which was confirmed by the inhabitants of are continually roaming about the environs o on deck, whence I could see nothing around Timbuctoo, whom I questioned respecting the Timbuctoo, and whose attack he had too much me but flooded morasses covered with aquatic melancholy event. I learned, that when within reason to remember. He determined to set of birds. This arm of the river is very narrow, a few days' journey of the city, the caravan to during the night. This was wise; for thoug and the current stronger than in the large which the major belonged was stopped, on the the Tooariks dared not touch him while h arm. I think it not unlikely that at a little road to Tripoli, by the Tooariks, or, as others staid in the town, they would have wrecke distance it joins the Dhioliba, for in this place alleged, by the Berbiches, a wandering tribe, their vengeance on him, had they caught hir the branch inclines to the east. If this is the near the Dhioliba. Laing, being discovered beyond its limits, and murdered as well a case, the river forms a large marshy island, to be a Christian, was cruelly attacked, and his robbed him. Taking advantage of a dark nigh which must be flooded during the inundations. assailants continued beating him with a club Major Laing mounted his horse, and, una Across these immense marshes is discovered until they thought him dead. I conclude that companied by a single native, reached Cabr the village or little town of Cabra, situated on the other Christian, who was said to have been and even, it is said, the banks of the Dhiolib a small hill, which protects it from inunda-actually murdered, was a servant of the ma- without accident. On his return to Timbu tion. I was told that in the rainy season jor's. The Moors belonging to the caravan too, he ardently wished, instead of proceedi these marshes are covered with water to the raised Laing up, and succeeded in restoring to Europe by the desert, to travel by Jenne a depth of ten feet, which appeared to me a him to animation. When he became sensible, Sego, ascending the Dhioliba, whence he mig surprising depth for so vast a space, and that they placed him upon a camel, but he was so have reached the French factories on the Sen at those periods large vessels cast anchor before weak that they were obliged to tie him on. gal. But, no sooner had he communicated Cabra. A little canal leads to this village; The robbers left him almost destitute, having plan to the Foulahs established on the borde but small boats only can enter the port. If robbed him of the greater part of his mer- of the Dhioliba, (a great number of whom h the canal were cleared of the grass and nenu-chandise. On his arrival at Timbuctoo, Major resorted to Timbuctoo, on hearing of the arriv phars which choke the passage, vessels of Laing healed his wounds by the aid of an oint- of a Christian,) than they all declared th twenty-five tons burden might go up it in all ment which he brought with him from Eng- would never suffer a nasarah to set foot seasons; but such a task would be too toilsome land. His recovery was slow; but he was their territory, and if he made the attem for the negroes. About three in made very comfortable, owing to the letters of they warned him that he would have cause the afternoon we reached Cabra, which is si- recommendation which he had brought from repent it. The major, perceiving that he co tuated three miles to the north of the great Tripoli, and especially to the attention of his do nothing with these fanatics, chose the r port. On entering it I observed a number of landlord, a Tripolitan, to whom he had been of El-Arawan, where he hoped to join a carav straw huts like those of the Foulahs, which directed. The house of this Moor was near of Moorish merchants, conveying salt to S were inhabited by trading slaves. Near their that in which I lodged at Timbuctoo. I had sanding; but, alas! after journeying five d huts was a great quantity of the fruit of the frequent opportunities of seeing him. He ap- to the north of Timbuctoo, the caravan, w nenuphar, which constitutes part of the food peared to me a man full of kindly feelings. which he had come up, was stopped by She of the slaves and poorer classes. I observed Many a time he has given me dates, from Hamet-oul'd-Habib, an old fanatic, chief of in the streets a great concourse of people and mere charity; and the day before I left, he tribe of Zawât, who wander in the deser merchants; some walking idly about, others made me a present of a pair of blue cotton that name. Sheikh Hamet seized the ma endeavouring to dispose of their goods, con- trousers, to wear on my journey. He told me under pretence of his having entered his te

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With this sad story we must now conclude.

The Lost Heir; and the Prediction. 3 vols.
12mo. London, 1830. E. Bull.
In an age when plots are as much out of
fashion in novels, as if they were popish_ones
and followed the precedent of the days of Titus
Oates-it is an actual treat to meet with a most
interesting narrative, where the attention never
flags, and suspense and curiosity are most dra-
matically sustained, till the curtain, alias the
finale page, closes on the wedding or the
burying;

where Major Laing was murdered. I there | of the multitude, who hailed him and his in-
observed the site of a camp. I averted my strument with fiendish welcome, did not once
eyes from this scene of horror, and secretly move him. Next followed, similarly led, De
dropped a tear-the only tribute of regret I Losme, the excellent, the amiable De Losme,
could render to the ill-fated traveller, to whose fate was so terrible: his appearance pre-
whose memory no monument will ever be sented a perfect contrast to his commander;
reared on the spot where he perished. Several his cheeks and his brow were pale, it is true,
Moors of our caravan, who had witnessed the but his glance was firm, and shewed the in-
fatal event, told me that the major had but ward man if shaken, not subdued; an occa-
little property with him when he was stopped sional flush passed over his countenance at the
by the chief of the Zawâts, and that he had vile and opprobrious terms heaped on him by
offered five hundred piastres to a Moor to the insolent canaille who dogged his steps, but
conduct him to Souyerah (Mogador). This was immediately succeeded by a smile of the
the Moor refused to do for what reason most ineffable contempt; which he was at
I was not informed, and I dared not inquire. some pains to make apparent. He seemed
They also spoke of the sextant, which I have fully aware of the certainty of his fate, and
mentioned above."
prepared for it like one who valued his man-
hood too high to part with it through dread
even of the worst doom these savages could
devise for him. The following victim on this
sacrificial list came Major O'Dillon: his bearing
was as wholly dissimilar from those who had
preceded him, as was the character of the man.
He was apparently long past the meridian of
life, of the middle height, having a remarkably
soldier-like port and physiognomy; his clear
hazel eye, formed to give effect alike to all the
passions of his soul, and in that peculiarly
characteristic of his country, at one moment
flashed scorn and defiance upon his hunters,
and in the next sparkled at the laugh that
followed the bold and humorous repartee he
lost no occasion of retorting upon them, with
the same buoyant reckless spirit that had so
often kept his comrades in a roar. The crowd
nearest to him, with that singular relish for
belle esprit, which is alike prevalent through
all classes of Parisians, had gradually caught
the infection of his humour, and more than
one voice was heard to exclaim- Ah! that
Irlandais, he is a fine old fellow, pity he must
die-what the devil had he to do with the
defence of the Bastile? What a fine spirit, but
he is a traitor, and he must die!'
He is a
foreigner,' exclaimed Colonel Laval, darting
suddenly between O'Dillon's escort and De
Losme's. He is of the Brigade, an Irishman,
and my comrade. He has only done what
every soldier must do, obeyed the orders of his
superior, and surely you cannot seriously in-
tend periling his life without cause or trial?'

tory without permission. He then wished to
compel him to acknowledge Mahomet to be
prophet of God, and required him even to make
the salam. Laing relying too confidently on
the protection of the Pasha of Tripoli, who
had recommended him to all the sheikhs of the
desert, refused to obey Hamet, who more and
more urgently insisted on his acknowledging
himself a Mussulman. Laing continued firm,
and chose to die rather than yield; a reso-
lution which made one of the most intelligent
of travellers a martyr to the cause of science.
A Moor, belonging to the train of the chief of
the Zawats, who was directed by his master to
kill the Christian, refused to execute his order.
What!' said he, do you wish me to slay the
first Christian who has come among us, and
one who has done us no injury? Give the com-
mission to another; I will not be the instru-
ment of his death; kill him yourself.' This
address suspended for a moment the fatal sen-
tence, and the question of Laing's life or death
was warmly debated for some time. At length
the latter was decided on. Some black slaves
were summoned, and they were ordered to per-
form the horrid deed, with which the Moor
had refused to stain his hands. One of the
murderers immediately tied his turban round
the neck of the victim, and strangled him on
the spot, he pulling one end while his comrade
heid the other. The corpse of the unfortunate "And we see no more of death or of the lady."
Laing was cast upon the desert, to become the The Lost Heir is really one of the best-told
prey of the raven and the vulture, the only tales we have met with for some time; the
birds which inhabit those desolate regions. story is an excellent one, and every incident
When the major had once been discovered to and character have, like the throws at back-
be a Christian and a European, death was a gammon, an influence on the state of the game.
thousand times preferable to even a temporary It is a better book, though, for readers than
change of religion, since he must have re-reviewers: we talk of the thread of a story, but
nounced all hope of again visiting Europe. cutting a little piece out gives a slight idea
The fate of Laing, had he become a Mussul- of the fashion in which the fabric is worked.
man perforce, would have been irremediably The following scene is sufficiently spirited to
wretched. He would have been the slave of stand alone. At the storming of the Bastile,
merciless barbarians, and exposed to all the Colonel Laval, accidentally mixed in the crowd,
miseries and dangers peculiar to that country. perceives an old friend among the prisoners.
In vain would the Pasha of Tripoli have "As he arrived nearer the object of his
demanded his liberation: at that immense anxiety, he perceived the foremost of the con-
distance, the chief of the Zawâts would have demned party to be the Marquis de Launay,
warned his menaces, and detained his prisoner. the late governor of la Bastille. He was led,
The resolution of Major Laing was, perhaps, or rather dragged, along by two ruffians, having
at ence a proof of intrepidity and of foresight. their filthy fingers thrust between his neck
On his departure for El-Arawan the major and his lace cravat. Above his head, one
took with him some astronomical instruments fellow every now and then brandished his own
and his papers, but very little merchandise; for sword, accompanying the action with the most
the Tocariks had relieved him of nearly all he insulting epithets and bloody menaces. The
essed. The Sheikh Hamet therefore gained looks of the marquis were haggard and wild in
me by the murder of the English traveller, the extreme; and the same man who possessed
d he was even obliged to divide that little nerve enough but a short time before to at- Gentlemen!' he then added with much mock
with the wretches whom he had made the in- tempt blowing himself and garrison into the solemnity, addressing his two gardes de corps,
truments of his crime. A Moor of Tafilet, air, rather than make terms with rebels; and have the politeness to withdraw your knuckles
who belonged to the caravan, had for his share who was in fact a soldier of unquestionable from my stock, and grant me grace for one
of the spoil a sextant, which I was informed courage, appeared on this last emergency to second, to bestow a parting accolade on an
might be found in the country. As for the have been bereft of all dignity or recollection. ancient campagnon de la guerre, as this is
major's papers and journals, they were scat- His uniform was disordered, and deformed by probably the last hour in which such favours
tend among the inhabitants of the desert. the mud into which he had been dashed more will be at my own disposal.' "Ah! yes, let
During my stay at Gourland, a village of Tafi- than once, when first torn from the gardes him salute his friend, surely; he's a brave
let, I saw a copper pocket compass, of English Français; who had been, after a struggle of man,' was most good-humouredly retorted by
facture. Nobody could tell me whence some severity, compelled to yield up the officers those of the people within hearing. It would
this instrument had come, and I concluded that to popular vengeance, in order to secure the have been difficult for a stranger to have col-
It had belonged to Laing. Had it not been for lives of the main body of the miserable gar-lected from the accompanying tone and man-
the precautions I was compelled to observe in rison, who, with much difficulty they found ner, that these words were applied to one for
my Arate disguise, I would have given a good means to escort in safety to the Hôtel de Ville. whose blood they were at the very moment
price for it: but I could not, without betray-Immediately in front of the marquis marched panting as eagerly as ever deer-hound watched
ing myself, shew that I attached the least value a dwarfish but muscular-looking ruffian, the for his portion, whilst the huntsman prepared
to an instrument, of the use of which I was butcher of the garrison, whose deadly enmity faire la curée. Leave me to my fate, I beg,
supposed to be ignorant."
colonel,' again urged O'Dillon, taking ad-
vantage of the pause, you will but sacrifice
yourself without a chance of saving one.'
O'Dillon, I am resolved,' coolly replied the
colonel: I owe you a death, and never could
have found a fitter hour of payment. Mes-

Launay had by some means incurred. Over On the 4th of May, Caillié left Timbuctoo his bared and brawny shoulder hung an axe, with a caravan, and crossed the Sahara, or such as his occupation had taught him deftly to desert, where, he says, on the 9th," in the use. He looked neither on the right or left, mring, a little before sunrise, the Moors his every idea seemed absorbed by the horrid who accompanied me shewed me the spot revenge he promised himself; and the shouts

Down with the scélérats! Take him also to the grève,' bellowed forth the most furious of those who observed the interposition of Laval. Retire, my excellent old comrade,' said O'Dillon, instantly recognising his friend.

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