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LIST OF THE BRITISH COLONIES. 



Europe* Demerara. 



Gibraltar. Essequibo. 



.Malta. Berbice. 



Ionian Islands. Trinidad. 



Heligoland. St. Lucia. 



Bermuda. 



America. Honduras. 

 Lower Canada. 



Upper Canada : Africa. 



Nova Scotia. Cape of Good Hope. 



New Brunswick Sierra Leone. 



Prince Edward's Island, Gambia. 



Newfoundland. Mauritius. 



West India Islands, &;c. Asia. 



Jamaica. Ceylon. 



Bahama Islands. Note. The Indian possessions, be- 



Barbadoes. ing under the directors, are not rnen- 



St. Vincent. tioned. 

 Grenada. 



Tobago. Australia. 

 Antigua. New South Wales : 

 Montserrat. Van Diemen's Land; 

 St. Christopher's. Swan River; and the recently char- 

 Nevis, tered colony of 

 The Virgin Isles. Southern Australia. 

 Dominica. 



THE NEGROMANCER. 



" Ho ! Sorcerer ! Magician ! Come forth." These outcries pro- 

 ceeded from a party of young men, just returned from witnessing 

 the funeral of Charles VII. at St. Denis, and who were knocking 

 violently at a door, on the top of a dark and winding staircase, in the 

 rue St. Pierre. They were replied to by a feeble and broken voice ; 

 but they heard it not, so vociferously did they call. 



" What ! Negromancer !" At last the door was slowly opened by 

 the object of their search. 



" What seek ye, my children ?" 



" We would know the future ; and thou canst dive into each 

 man's destiny, thou high priest of the Evil One king of sorcerers ! 

 Come, and tell us quickly; and see that the intelligence be to our 

 liking: for it needs none of thy skill to know that our rapiers have 

 sharp points," repeated Mande Thebergan, the eldest of the party, as 

 he directed an enquiring, though fearful, glance into the old man's 

 mysterious dwelling. It was only lighted by a small lamp, the 

 glimmering flame of which scarcely enabled him to distinguish, in 

 one corner of it, a human skeleton; in another, a heap of dusty 

 books ; on the floor, spheres and astrolabes ; and, fixed to the 

 ceiling, between two beams, an immense white stuffed owl, whose 

 large eyes glared with peculiar brilliancy, although reflected only 



