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fail. The form of the orange-tree, the coooa-nut, the palm, the 

 mango, the fern-tree, the banana, will remain clear and separate ; 

 but the thousand beauties which unite these into one perfect scene 

 must fade away ; yet they will leave, like a tale heard in child- 

 hood, a picture full of indistinct, but most beautiful figures." 



Again, in his retrospect of the voyage, he says : "Among the 

 scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in 

 sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man ; 

 whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, 

 or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail. 

 Both are temples filled with the varied productions of the God of 

 Nature ; — no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not 

 feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body." 



Then, turning to man in his aboriginal state, he says: "Of 

 individual objects, perhaps nothing is more certain to create 

 astonishment than the first sight of a savage in his native haunt, 

 — of a barbarian, — of man in his lowest and most savage state. 

 One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks, Could 

 our progenitors have been men like these? — men whose very 

 signs and expressions are less intelligible to us than those of the 

 domesticated animals ; men who do not possess the instinct of those 

 animals, nor yet appear to boast of human reason, or at least of 

 arts consequent on that reason. I do not believe it is possible to 

 describe or paint the difference between savage and civilised man. 

 It is the difference between a wild and a tame animal ; and part of 

 the interest in beholding a savage, is the same which would load 

 every one to desire to see the lion in his desert, the tiger tearing 

 his prey in the jungle, or the rhinoceros wandering over the wild 

 plains of Africa." 



He gives many instances of cruelty to slaves, and concludes with, 

 the following words: — "Those who look tenderly at the slave- 

 owner, and with a cold heart at the slave, never seem to put them- 

 selves into the position of the latter ; — what a cheerless prospect, 

 with not even a hope of change ! Picture to yourself the chance, 

 ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children — 

 those objects which Nature urges even the slave to call his own — 

 being torn from you and sold like beasts to the first bidder ! And 

 these deeds are done and palliated by men who profess to love 

 their neighbours as themselves, who believe in God and pray that 

 his Will be done on earth ! It makes one's blood boil, yet heart 

 tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descend- 

 ants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so 

 guilty : but it is a consolation to reflect that we at least have 



