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Show 28 TU£ LILY AND THE TOTEM. of the region promised them, and the novelty which invested every object in their eyes made tho parting from their comrades a tolerably easy one. They heard with lively spirit.<! the farewell shout8 of their companions, and answered them with cheers of confidence and pride. Tho simple paragraph which records the leave-taking of the parties, is at once pleasing and full of pathos. u Having ended his (Ribault's) exhortations, we took our leaves of eacA of them, and say led Wwa.rd our shippcs. 'Vc hoyscd our sa.yles about ten of tho olocke in tho morning. After wee were ready to depart, Captain Ribault com.mandad to shoote off' our ordnance, to give a farewell unto our Frenchmen; which fayled not to do the like on their part. This being done, wee sayled toward the north. 11 That last shout, that last sullen roar of their mutual cannon, and the great waves of the Atlantic roUea, unbroken by a sail, between our colonists and La Bdk Fra1&U. II. THE COLONY UNDER ALBERT. TnE Colonists, thus abandoned by their countrymen, proceeded to mnko themselves secure in their forest habitations. Day and ni~ht did they addre1111 themselves to the completion of their fort; csa. They have seen none of the natives in the immediate neighborhood of the spot in which they had pitched their tents; but, aware of tho wandering habits of tho red-men, they might naturally look for them at any moment. Their toils, quickened by their caution, enabled them to make rapid progress. While they labored, they felt nothing of their loneliness. The employments which accompanied their sitllll.tion, and flowed from its necessities, might be said to exercise their fancies, and to subdue the tendency to melancholy which might naturally grow out of their isolation. Besides, the very novelty of the circumstances in which they foun,.d themselves had its attractions, particularly to a people so lively n.s the French. Our Huguenots, at the outset, were very sensible to the picturesque beauties of their forest habitation. For a season, bird, and beast, and tree, and il.owcr, presented themselves to their delighted eyes, in guises ot constantly-varying attraction. The solitude, itself, possessed it-s charm, moat fascinating of all,-until it became monotonous- |