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It may be necessary to mention that the Pelew taken off by ships in passing, while all the ree islands are surrounded by a reef which makes out cept himself had died. An armed party being to sea, with a current running around it so rapidly, d the next day to search the island found conf that vessels which unwarily approach too near the tion of this story, and the ship returned with iand in a light breeze are sometimes carried among recovered chief to the Pelew islands. the breakers and wrecked. This accident lately befell the ship Mentor, Captain Bernard, which was cast away on a shoal to the northward of Babelthoop, when the crew betaking themselves to the boats, were afterward captured by the natives in their canoes, and three of them detained, Captain Bernard and six others being permitted to depart. It was to rescue these men that the Vincennes went to the Pelew islands.

Upon anchoring at Corrol, information was received that two out of the three Americans were still at Aracolon, and a demand being sent for them, answer was returned that they were hostages for three chiefs who had gone away with Captain Bernard to receive certain presents which had been promised to the natives for their services in facilitating his departure from the island. This accorded with an account which had been previously obtained of Captain Bernard's having been thrown upon Lord North's island, and escaping thence, leaving a number of men behind. The Vincennes accordingly sailed for Lord North's island, where she arrived on the 9th of December, and found one of the Pelew chiefs, who was in ill health, and gave an account of the nine who landed there, saying that two had been

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fitted out consisting of one hundred and twenty Uupon her arrival at Carrol an expedition officers and men, who proceeded to Aracolon, a after an absence of four days, returned to the sh having recovered Meader and Davis in exchang for the Pelew survivor.

Lintin, when, as soon as her arrival was announce From these islands the Vincennes proceeded order to depart immediately, which was of cours to the authorities she received the usual whimsica honoured with as little attention as Customs" have generally commanded. "Old Chin Lintin she touched at Singapore, and on the 16th Leavin of February, arrived at Qualla Battoo, where remain ing several days, she exchanged salutes and friendly visits with the Rajah, and, it is hoped, contributed to the re-establishment of the good understanding which had been temporarily interrupted by the affair of the ship Friendship and the consequent visit of the frigate Potomack.

of thirty-nine days to the cape of Good Hope, From Qualla Battoo she had a prosperous voyage whence she returned to the United States by the way of St. Helena.

Norfolk Beacon.

grandeur and beauty. The "courses," forming the intermediate parts of this line within the town, present a remarkable and picturesque coup d'œil on Sundays, when it would seem as if Marseilles disgorged its whole population into them.

land-side, from the height called La Viste, in, ably. The cathedral church, supposed to be the oldest form of a crescent, only by the masts and Flags in France, has little else to distinguish it. The thethe ships of various nations. The approach to it atre, facing a new and beautiful street, is one of the a spacious avenue lined with trees and well-built best built in France, at least out of Paris. The ouses detached from each other, gives promise of streets and places in the new town are well designsplendid city. On the left, a rich landscape opens, ed, spacious, and elegantly built, with flagged foothickly studded with country-houses; on the right paths-a distinction in France, at least in the provis the long roadstead, crowded with ships, its sides inces. The line of building from the gate of Aix, indented with a curious and picturesque diversity, by which Marseilles is entered by the Paris road with the isles of If, Pomegues, and Ratoneau; and, through the town, to the rue de Rome, by which it in the distance, the Mediterranean sea. Marseilles is entered from the opposite or Italian road, has both is composed of the old and new towns; the latter forming two thirds of the whole, elegantly built, and several houses bearing marks of the chisel of the celebrated sculptor Puget. There is an academy, library, museum, garden of plants, and an observatory, built by the Jesuits in the last century. The favourite excursion by water is to the château This is one of the most interesting establishments d'If, a castle and prison on a small island at the of the town. The style of structure is simple, and mouth of the harbour, which had amongst its prisonthe situation admirable, commanding the port with ers Mirabeau, before the revolution, and after it the its forests of masts and rigging, the boundless sea, duke of Orleans (Egalité) and his younger son. and the country like one cultivated garden or orna- This castle, in the centre of the harbour, on the cenmental landscape, over which are spread the beauti- tral and largest of the three islets, defends the harful country-houses called bastides. The most dis- bour, by its batteries. The commerce of Marseilles, tinguished edifice is the hotel de ville, or town-hall, essentially maritime, embraces the southern coast of built by Puget; its fascade ornamented with bass- France, the Levant, the coasts of Italy, Spain, Afreliefs in white marble, and the arms of France, rica, the ports of the Mediterranean and Atlantick, surmounted once more by the Royal crown, after the French settlements in the West and East Indies. having been displaced by the cap of liberty, which Its manufactures are chiefly tobacco, printed goods, gave way in its turn to the crown imperial. The hats, glass, porcelain, china, soap, coral, &c. The sculptured escutcheon of France is considered a common people preserve in their physiognomy and Couvre, and is said to have excited the ad- manners no trace of their Grecian or Roman origin, miration of Domini on his first arrival in France. or antique civilization: they are harsh-looking, imThe Lazaretto is a vast erreleure on the coast, to petuous, and rude; but brave, frank, and kind. The the northwest, and only a short distance from the discrepance between the manners of the people, and The aspect of the port from the top of the the mildness and beauty of the climat and the "Montagne Bonaparte," is one of the mormerly called country, is ascribed by some philosophical observers picturesque that can be imagined; presenting the costumes of which blows with great Violence, and produces the parching cold northeast wind, Tho, Greeks, Jews, Dutch, En- most painful effects upon the skin and nerves. glish, Russian-merchants, sailors, porters, moving When this wind does not blow, the winter is as mild and mingling with prodigious activity. When ap-as spring elsewhere. proached very near, however, much of the enchant- The city of Marseilles has about one hundred and ment vanishes, from the brutality of the sailors and twenty thousand inhabitants, and it is one hunporters, the fumes of brandy and tobacco, and some-dred and eighty miles S. by E. of Lyons, and three times the still more offensive exhalations of the hundred E. N. E. of Bourdeaux. Lon. 5° 24: E., port, which is protected from the winds, and conse- lat. 43° 17′ N. quently stagnant. These exhalations do not, however, it appears, affect the publick health, or even offend the sense of those who are habituated to them. singular phenomenon occurred in the beginning of 1812 the waters suddenly retreated from the port, leaving the vessels stranded in the dark, muddy, and fetid bottom--a fearful spectacle. The inhabitants looked on the consternation, which became still more dreadful when, after the lapse of half an hour, the waves returned with a furious roaring, dashed against the quays, threatened to inundate the town, and then resumed their usual limits and tranquillity, leaving all the ships uninjured and afloat.

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LION HUNT.

THE following description of a lion-hunt, in South Africa, was furnished to the editor of the Boston Atlas, by Mr. Hardy, one of the Boston company, who has just returned from that part of the globe. It presents a new illustration of American enterprise: Mr. Hardy having been one of a company sent to Africa, to procure from their native hunts, the wild animals of that country, for the purpose of exhibition in the United States.

"We started at six in the morning, accompanied The exchange is not striking as a building, but by two Dutch boors and our Hottentots, all well presents a scene of remarkable activity and curious armed, and each man on horseback. We travelled grouping. It opens and closes, at the striking of the for about ten miles though a wild and arid disclock, by beat of drum. The arsenal is admired, trict without meeting any game, but shortly after but rather from the want of comparison with edifi- having gone that diance, one of the Hottentots, beces of a high order. The fishmarket-hall, built by ing a little in adance, informed us in a whisper Puget, and a new market-house, with a handsome and with the Ost animated gestures, that there Tuscan colonnade, strike the spectator more agree-was a lion akad.

We immediately prepared for action: Gbeying fellin with gnus, or horned horses-there implicitly the directions of the boors, they ing certainly not less than one thousand in numexperienced hunters. Using great, we ap-ber. We put our guns in order, and were soon proached to within about two hundred yards of a in the midst of them. They are the most beautiful small bush, and there, partly screened by it, we be- animals, running at large on their native plains, the held an immense lion, in an attitude of repose. eye ever beheld. No adequate idea can be formed of We immediately disment and tied our horses to- their appearance from what one sees of them in a gether (a custom generally pursued on these occa- domesticated state. We killed two full grown, and sons to keep them from running) and then pro- caught three young ones, of about a month old each. ceeded forty or fifty yards nearer. The noble ani- The usual method of hunting them is by riding dimal lay perfectly ciet, surveying our motions very rectly into the herd: the old ones take flight, leaving composedly and apparently wholly unconscious of their young in the rear, which then fall an easy prey. our hostile intentions. After being captured two or three hours, they become "Having reached to within about one hundred so tame that they will follow the horse of the hunter. and fifty yards of him, two of our company stepped When the latter reaches his domicil, he places them to the front and fired together, the rest reserving with his goats, and they speedily become domesticathe fire to be ready in case of accident. The lion ted. We reached the house of one of these boors wounded severely, bat not killed, immediately rush- about sunset, with our lion's skin, and our guns, ed towards us with inconceivable fury and rapidity much pleased with our excursion, and without hav-he covered a space of thirty feet, as we after- ing suffered any mishap. It is rare that a day's ward perceived at one bond. We suffered him sport of this kind terminates so happily." to get within ten or twelve feet of us, and then as he was about to make his last leap, poured upon him the contents of all our pieces. He staggered, fell, and in about a quarter of an hour expired. He was the largest and the most magnificent creature of the kind I ever saw, full grown and with a mane black as jet reaching most to the ground.

"We stripped him of his skin and then proceeded homeward. After travelling for about an hour, on a route different from that we came, we

AN INDIAN COUNCIL.

IN the autumn of 1830, the writer was present at a council of Indian chiefs, held in the gardens of Government House, at Toronto, the capital of Upper Canada. It had been convoked by the lieutenant-governour of the province, (Sir J. Colborne,) for the purpose of ascertaining the sentimentsof the tribes with respect to a contemplated allotment of land in certain fixed portions to families among them, with the view

of inuring them to settled modes of life. Early in was a frequent allusion. One only was the reprethe morning, the chieftains of the forest were seen sentative of an unconverted tribe. Among the anom wending their way, in full attire, towards the govern- alies in the group, were to be seen an excessively ment-house. A double circle of seats had been corpulent Indian, (a very rare sight,) another with arranged in the open air before the entry, and here spectacles; another with an umbrella. One was the chiefs, to the number of forty, were seated; on named "Echo," from the sweetness of his voice; the landing to the flight of steps leading to the entry another, "Twenty-Canoes." On the interpreter's was placed a table, behind which stood his excel- delivering any sentiment of his excellency which lency surrounded by his staff in full uniform; at the particularly pleased them, they expressed their table a secretary was sitting; and around, beyond the approbation by their honest laconick "hu!" breathed circle of seats, was drawn up a guard of honour, of the out ab imo pectore-equivalent, doubtless, to our seventy-first highlanders, in their national dress."hear! hear! hear!" Notwithstanding the idea of The attire of the chiefs, for the most part, was fan- pithy brevity, which is usually attached to Indian tastick in the highest degree, that is, according to our speeches, the English language expresses in half notion, for we may be sure that the sedateness and a dozen words what seems to take them a hundred, sobriety which really characterize them, would by the cause of which is, their words are so immeasno means have us consider them ridiculous. A very urably long-sesquipedalia verba, with a vengeance. prevalent head-dress was a gaudy handkerchief I heard an old chief, who once roundly taxed his lapped turbanwise, to which, behind, was appended interpreter with not delivering one half of what he a plume of hawk or turkey feathers, while ponderous had expressed. At the time of the council we are clusters of silver ornaments (large crosses in many now speaking of, Brandt, the famous Indian chief, instances) dragged down the rims of their ears, was in the city, but dangerously ill. Allusion was which, in their infancy, had been slit entirely round made to him by one of his brother chiefs, evidently for the purpose. For this sort of decoration they with no very kindly feeling; by many of them, have a peculiar liking: they exult in an exuberant doubtless, his refinement was deemed either degendisplay of tinsel trappings attached to every possible eracy or arrogance. When the council had ended, part of their person. Some, however, wore the long tables, covered with every variety of refreshordinary modern beaver, which becomes them when ments, were spread upon the lawn, to which the the rest of their attire is consistent, as was the group adjourned. The officers of the regiment, and case in many at this time, who appeared noble gentlemen attracted to the spot by the novelty of the tonses in their light surtouts, trousers, and Welling- scene, performed the honours as well as the services costume, the many adhered to the regular chief's of the table. The knife, fork, and spoon, (those tunick of blue cloth, withe hair long and sleek, a unwonted implements,) were used with considerable waist, clod leggings, edged at the ed sash about the ease and activity by the guests; and every thing, broidery of porcupine-quills, and buckskin moccasins as raisins with cold beef, custard with mince-pie, &c. with em- with the exception of some unfashionable mixtures, orname in a similar manner, broad silver passed off with as much propriety as could be exarmbands, a medal, bea king's head, suspend-pected The wives (or squaws, as they are called) hawk and of some of the chiefs were present, but merely as

ed like a gorget at the throat, the

knife.

Each chief stood as he spoke; the delivery and respectable distance. Some of the gentlemen presors-on. During the banquet they kept at a tone of each was very similar; the language highly ent, however, gallantly carried to them some little musical, running along like a low simple Scottish delicacies from the tables, with which they regaled air, regularly dropping at the close of each sentence themselves with no little apparent satisfaction, under with a frequent but not monotonous cadence; the the neighbouring trees. interpreter, a young man, stood uncovered at his for sketching several of the characters assembled The opportunity was seized excellency's left, with two assistants and correctors. on this occasion; they were aware what the artist His attitude was admirable: he stooped slightly was engaged in, and several good-humouredly con forward, his eyes fixed towards the ground, both sented (though only requested by signs) to remain, hands raised; the picture of attention, while another after the close of the feast, for the more complete was speaking-of sincerity and disinterestedness finish of the sketches. In turning over his portwhen he himself spoke. The little action employed folio, they were wonderfully amused at recognising in speaking was graceful, consisting principally in their brother chiefs. On another occasion, while waving the hand; they seldom lifted the eye, and a young friend of the writer was enriching his scarcely appeared to move the lip. None seemed sketch-book with figures from a group of Indians abashed, or at a loss for words. They addressed before him, one of them brought him a humorous his excellency by the title of "brother," (every caricature of himself, in the act of sketching, scratched sentence began with this,) while the king himself on a broad stone. This memorial of "savage they spoke of as "father." All appeared to acqui- waggery, of course, he reasured up. esce in the proposal which was made to them respecting the land, but were shrewd in hinting that they must have every thing secure upon paper, for the sake of their children and relatives. All expressed grateful feelings towards their father, who had sent his excellency to them, and declared that they should maintain their attachment to him as long as the sun shone, the waters ran, till the Son of man came again upon the earth, &c. This last

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What then

is this narrow selfishness in us, but relationship
The world is bat one great family,
remembered against relationship forgot?

* Brandt, of Brant-ford, was returned a member for one of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada; a tall full-blooded Indian, western townships. The writer has frequently seen him in the but mog gentlemanly in his manners. The poor fellow was swept by the cholera, in 1832.