[BRYCE] A RARE FIND IN THE CANADIAN ARCHIVES 13 
She begins by trying to interest Ulamar in the prospect of meeting 
with his father. She describes her husband in the following terms: 
“The best and bravest of mankind is he. 
And O! he loves thee, son—he lives for thee, 
à and me he loves 
As if some god came down to adore his creature 
And then a wisdom and tongue might charm 
The ears of listening angels,—know my son 
Thou wilt be fond—be proud of such a father.” 
Ulamar, as he has often done before, begs her to tell him his father’s 
name; but Sakia informs him that all knowledge of his father depends 
on two conditions—the acceptance of the proffered terms of peace 
and the renunciation of the daughter of Zephario. Passionately 
Ulamar rebels against the latter stipulation and he reveals his marriage 
thus: 
“This day our hands were joined; this very hour, 
With solemn invocation, I implored 
The eternal mind and every power to witness 
That naught but death would part my love and me.” 
Sakia then tells Ulamar that he can never meet with his father as 
he hates the Angians with a mortal hatred; but Ulamar replies that when 
he sees Irene all his hatred will cease, and when his mother speaks of 
his father’s ambitions for his son and describes the kind of wife he had 
dreamed of for him, Ulamar says: 
“What he designed then, Providence has done, 
My father when he sees her will be charmed, 
My father loudly will approve my choice.” 
Sakia seeing that she cannot influence Ulamar with regard to his 
marriage leaves that subject but continues to harp on the making of 
peace. She represents strongly the advantages it will be to herself and 
to Ulamar to be re-united to her husband and she dwells long and loudly 
on her own suffering and grief, addressing to Ulamar the following 
reproachful words: 
“Thou hast refused to dry thy mother’s tears 
But prov’st a cruel and a bitter child to me, 
Untouched by all my grief, unmoved by all my love.” 
Ulamar protests and says that, taught by Beaufort, he had been 
more submissive than was common among Indian youths. 
Sakia further says that Ulamar will soon be absolved from all 
filial duty as he can never see his father and yet a little while he will 
have no mother, meaning that unless peace is concluded and an end 
put to her woes she will destroy her own life. Ulamar is much moved 
