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Show 262 ON FREEDO'-f. The vengeful causes and the deed forgot-·Y.· 'Vbcre greenest boughs o'er sloping banks impend, And gurgling waves to bosky dells descend; Intent the long expectant brood to sea, Tie halts beneath the broad acacia tree ; And warmly pressed by wonder-gloating eyes, Displays the vantage of each savage prize; Stills with glad pride and plundered gems, uncouth, 'l'he ardent longings of his daughter's youth; Bids the clark spouse the tropic meal prepare, Mid laughing echoes from the bird-voiced air; Passes before him in a fond review The meny numbers of his crisp-haired crew ;t 111 "Tho vengeful causes and the deed forgot." All travellers ngz·cc in the facile ductility o.nd incrti:l-likc amiability of the native Aft·ican chat·actcr.-B it~:wsTEI! on .Africa. f '·The merry numbct·s of his erisp-haiz·cd crew." The negro race is, perhaps, the most prolific of all the human species. 'Ihci1· infancy and youth nrc singularly happy. Tl1e parents nrc passionately fond of thciz· childt·eu.-CoLDllURY's 'J'ravels. "~tl'ike me," said my nltemlnnt, "but do not curse my mothct·," The same sentiment I fuuntl uni\'Cl"sally to rwcvnil. Some of the fit·$L lC$SOns in which the hlandiugs women instruct thcit· children i~ the prac.'ice of trutlt. lt was the only cousobtion for a ncgt·o mothet·, wbosc son had been murdered Uy the Moors, that "lite boy had never l~ld a lic."-PAnK's 1'ravcls. ON FREEDOM. Recounts the dangers of tl1c last night's strife, Joys with their joy, a.nd lives their inner life; And then when slow the lengthened day expires, Mid twiligl1t balms and star-enkindled fires, With all the father sees each form retire, A ruthless heathen, but a loving sire::<· Innocuously thus, thro' long, long yenrs Untaught by learning, yet unknown to fears, 'l'hc swarthy Afric whiled the jocund hours, A petted child of nature's rosiest bowers, 'I' ill I urcd by wealth the hardy Portuguese, t Seeks the green waters of his Eastern seas, • "'Yith nll the father sees ench form rcti1·c, A ru t hl ess heathen, but n loving sire." "Ot·led the eombnt, bold without n plan, An nL·tlcss s:l.\'ngc, but o. fcal'icss man." C.uu•nt:LL. t "Till lured by wcalih t he hardy Portuguese, Sought the green wnte1·s of his Eastern scns, And \'enturous nations more excurs i\'C grown, rierccd his glad coast fz·om r~1dinnt zone to zone." 263 Ynsqucz de Camn, a POl'tugneso noblemnn, was the first to dis. CO\'Cl' a m:u·itime passage to the fndi cs; unl ess, pcl'ltnps, we credit the impt·obnUlc achicYcmcut of tho Phoouicians, related by Ilcz·odo. tus ns occnt'l'ing, 60·1 n.c. De Gnrnn doubled the cape in 1•198, explored the eastern shot·es ns fat· ns:llcliudn, in Zanguebar, nnd sail ing thence arri\·ed at Calcutta. iu May. '!'his expedition, second to none in its results, save that of |
