for assistance. Anxiety on board the Union respecting these unhappy persons was intense: happily, however, they were all saved, with the exception of three officers, one of whom lost his life by endeavouring to secure a large sum of money: leaving the vessel too soon, he sunk to rise no more; and, as it was supposed, was devoured by the sharks, which surrounded the ships in great numbers. Nor was this the only peril which the Union escaped: on the coast of South America, she incurred a similar risk :---"O how sweet," remarked Mr. Martyn, "to perceive such repeated instances of God's guardian care!"-During this part of the voyage, the novel sight of the flyingfish beginning to attract attention, Mr. Martyn's mind, ever fertile in topics of humiliation, could discover a "resemblance to his own soul in those poor little creatures, which rose to a little height, and then in a minute or two, when their fins were dry, dropped into the waves." Others, doubtless, would have chosen for him a far different similitude, and would have sought it rather in the eagle soaring into the fields of light, or in the dove of the poet,

"When at length she springs To smoother flight, and shoots upon her wings."

DRYDEN.

"I find, (Mr. Martyn wrote on his arrival at St. Salvador to two of his friends in England) that neither distance or time can separate the hearts which are united in the fellowship of the Gospel, as well as by mutual esteem. Mere earthly affections are weakened by time and absence; but Christian love grows stronger, as the day of salvation approaches. Already a watery waste of four thousand miles lies between me and England: but because I have you in my heart, and make mention of you without ceasing in my prayers, you seem scarcely yet out of sight."

Though a long sea is rolling already betwixt us, yet I scarcely seem to have lost sight of you, or of my dear friends at Cambridge. The hymns we sing,

being chiefly taken from your collection, daily bring to my remembrance the happy days when I went with the multitude to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise. Those seasons are gone by; but I comfort myself with thinking they will quickly be renewed in a better country, when we come to dwell together in the mansions of our father's house."

The description of St. Salvador, and the events connected with Mr. Martyn's stay there, we have thus recorded by him at some length.

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Nov. 12.-"The coast was beautiful, with much romantic scenery. The town exactly resembled Funchal, but was rather more cheerful. The objects in the streets were strong negro-men slaves, carrying very heavy casks on a pole, with a sort of unpleasant note-negro-women carrying fish, fruit, &c.—a few. palanquins, which are drawn by two mules. things exposed to sale were turtles, bananas, oranges, limes, papaws, water-melons, tamarinds, fustich-wood. I walked up the hill in order to get into the country, and observed a man standing by the way side, holding out for the people's salutation a silver embossed piece of plate of a small oval size, and repeating some words about St. Antonio. Some kissed it; others took off their hats; but the man himself seemed to ridicule their folly. They were performing mass in one church; it was not so splendid as that of Madeira ; many of the priests were negroes. I soon reached the suburbs, on the outside of which was a battery, which commanded a view of the whole bay, and repeated the hymn, O'er the gloomy hills of darkness." What happy Missionary shall be sent to bear the name of Christ to these Western regions When shall this beautiful country be delivered from idolatry and spurious Christianity! Crosses there are in abundance; but when shall the doctrine of the cross be held up! I continued my walk in quest of a wood, or some trees where I might sit down; but all was appropriated; no tree was to be approached, except through an enclosure. At last I came to a magnificent porch, be

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fore a garden gate, which was open. I walked in, but finding the vista led straight to the house, I turned to the right, and found myself in a grove of cocoa-nut trees, orange trees, and several strange fruit trees: under them was nothing but rose trees; but no verdure on the ground: oranges were strewed as apples in an orchard. Perceiving that I was observed by the slaves, I came up to the house, and was directed by them to an old man sitting under a tree, apparently insensible from illness. I spoke to him in French, and in English; but he took no notice. Presently a young man and a young lady appeared, to whom I spoke in French, and was very politely desired to sit down at a little table, which was standing under a large space before the house, like a verandah. They then brought me oranges, and a small red acid fruit, the name of which I asked, but cannot recollect. The young man sat opposite, conversing about Cambridge: He had been educated in a Portuguese University. Almost immediately, on finding I was of Cambridge, he invited me to come when I liked to his house. A slave, after bringing the fruit, was sent to gather three roses for me the master then walked with me round the garden, and showed me among the rest the coffee plant: when I left him he repeated his invitation. Thus did the Lord give his servant favour in the eyes of Antonio Joseph Corie."

Nov. 13.--" This morning there was a great storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, which awoke me. got up and prayed.-O when the last great thunder echoes from pole to pole, I shall be in earnest, if not before."

Nov. 14.- -"Senner Antonio received me with the same cordiality: he begged me to dine with him. was curious and attentive to observe the difference between the Portuguese manners and ours: there were but two plates laid on the table, and the dinner consisted of a great number of small mixed dishes, following one another in quick succession; but none of them very palatable. In the cool of the evening.

we walked out to see his plantation: here every thing possessed the charm of novelty. The grounds included two hills, and a valley between them.-The hills were covered with cocoa-nut trees, bananas, mangos, orange and lemon trees, olives, coffee, chocolate, and cotton plants, &c. In the valley was a large plantation of a shrub or tree, bearing a cluster of small berries, which he desired me to taste. I did, and found it was pepper. It had lately been introduced from Batavia, and answered very well. It grows on a stem about the thickness of a finger, to the height of about seven feet, and is supported by a stick, which, at that height, has another across it for the branches to spread upon. Slaves were walking upon the ground: watering the trees, and turning up the ground; the soil appeared very dry and loose. At night returned to the ship in a country boat, which are canoes made of a tree hollowed out, and paddled by three men.

Nov. 13." Went ashore at six o'clock, and found that Sennor Antonio had been waiting for me two hours. It being too late to go into the country, I staid at his house till dinner. He kept me too much in his company, but I found intervals for retirement. In a cool and shady part of the garden, near some water I sat and sang-O'er the gloomy hills of darkness.' I could read and pray aloud, as there was no fear of any one understanding me. In the afternoon we went in a palanquin to visit his father. Reading the eightyfourth Psalm, 'O how amiable are thy tabernacles,' this morning in the shade-the day when I read it last under the trees with ***, was brought forcibly to my remembrance, and produced some degree of melancholy. Of this I was thinking all the way I was carried and the train of reflections into which I was led, drew off my attention from the present scene. We visited, in our way, a monastery of Carmelites : in the church belonging to it, my friend Antonio knelt some time, and crossed himself: I was surprised, but said nothing. At his father's house, I was described

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to them as one who knew every thing-Arabic, Persian, Greek, &c.; and all stared at me as if I had dropped from the skies. The father, Sennor Domi

nigo, spoke a little Latin. A priest came in, and as it was the first time I was in company with one, I spoke to him in Latin, but he blushed, and said that he did not speak it. I was very sorry I had undesignedly put him to pain. Had a great deal of conversation with Antonio afterward on England, and on religion: He had formed such an idea of England, that he had resolved to send his son to be educated there.—A slave in my bed-room washed my feet. I was struck with the degree of abasement expressed in the act, and as he held the foot in the towel, with his head bowed down towards it, I remembered the condescension of the blessed Lord. May I have grace to follow such humility!"

Nov. 19." Early after breakfast went in a palanquin to Sennor Dominigo's; and from thence with him, two or three miles into the country: at intervals I got out and walked. I was gratified with the sight of what I wanted to see; namely, some part of the country in its original state, covered with wood : it was hilly, but not mountainous. The luxuriance was so rank, that the whole space, even to the tops of the trees, was filled with long stringy shrubs and weeds, so as to make them impervious, and opaque. The road was made by cutting away the earth on the side of the hill, so that there were woods above and below us. The object of our walk was to see a pepper plantation, made in a valley, on a perfect level. The symmetry of the trees was what charmed my Portuguese friend; but to me, who was seeking the wild features of America, it was just what I did not want. -The person, who showed us the grounds, was one that had been a major in the Portuguese army, and had retired on a pension. The border consisted of pine-apples, planted between each tree: the interior was set with lemon trees, here and there, between the pepper plants. We were shown the root of the man