sickness, are suffered to remain there 
till the jackalls devour them. Surely 
this moré resembles an account of an 
Abyssinian than an English city. Birds 
‘as well-as beasts of prey infest Calcutta. 
™M. Grandpré lost his dinner one day 
_ by oné of these visitors. The cock was 
|| bringing aroasted fowl across the yard, 
and an eagle helped himself to the 
_ Having sold his ship, M. Grandpré 
made a speculating voyage to Mocha. 
‘This place he describes as having at first 
“sight very much the appearance of a 
_ Spanish town, on account of the latticed 
“balconies to every story. The religion 
| of Mohammed exists here in full vigour 
| of ignorance and intolerance. No fo- 
_ Feigner is permitted to pass through one 
| of its entrances, which is called the 
™) Sacred Gate: should he attempt it he 
| would probably be slain by the Bedouins 
‘| who are encamped by it. The very 
y} children when they see an European in 
b _ the streets, run after him, exclaiming, 
_ the Frank to the burying-ground! So 
| deep a hatred has been generated by 
© their struggle with the Portugueze. 
Ba Boon shese people M. Grandpré phi- 
 losophizes with his usual wisdom and 
_ eonsistency. : 7 
oe 
a .** History shows us, that the suecéssion 
_ Of barbarism to more enlightened times, only 
_ compelled the arts and sciences to make the 
_ tour of the globe; and, in inquiring into 
the causes of their decline, we are obliged to 
admit, that the revolutions which overturn 
states are brought about solely by the ex- 
tinction of religion and morals, 
_ . **Tn the enjoyment of a happier destiny, 
_ Arabia, instead’ of apprehensions. of revo- 
_ Iution, sees the period approaching when 
she will occupy in her tura the foremost 
place among the nations of the earth. Her 
attachment to her religion subsists in all its 
force ; her morals are uncontaminated; she 
knows neither debauchery, gaming, luxury,’ 
nor avarice, and is perhaps the only country 
in existence where virtue is practised for its 
own sake.” 
i 
Ry 
What the religion. of this country is,’ 
where ‘ virtue is practised for its own 
_ Sake,” the reader has already seen. Let 
us now examine their morals, as M. 
_ Grandpré himself delineates them. The 
_ Arab, he says, is passionate and vine 
dictive; nothing can stifle his desire of 
revenge; he will readily sacrifice him- 
_ self, if he can involve his enemy in his 
_ destruction. Every man is capable of 
sacrificing his wife on the slightest sus- 
picion; and with that disgracetul jealousy 
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53. 
whichcanonly have originated in the most 
disgraceful lasciviousness, they will not 
permit their own children to enter their 
haram, after they have attained the age’ 
of puberty! These are the people, 
who, according to M. Grandpré, stand 
in’ no need of a general reformation, 
while they preserve their religion and 
manners! these are the only people in 
existence who practise virtue for its own 
sake ! 
On his return to the coast of Malabar 
a violent storm arose; his vessel leaked, 
and the pumps were out of order: the 
expedient by which he contrived to make 
one of them work, we shall transcribe 
for its ingenuity, and use his own words, 
for the instruction of those seamen inta, 
whose hands this book may fall. 
‘The pumps work by two. valves, one 
fixed upon a moyeable body called the upper 
box, containing a hole which this valve her- 
metically closes, and the other fixed to an 
immoveable body called the lower box. The 
upper box, in descending, presses the co- 
lumn of water upon the valve of the lower 
box, and keeps it shut, while the same pres- 
sure raises the valve of the upper box, and 
gives a passage through it toghe water. In 
the re-ascent of the upper box, when its 
valve shuts by the weight of the columa of 
water above it, that of the lower box opens 
and affords a passage tothe swater below it, 
whichis thus drawn up by the suction. It 
thus appears, that the effect of the pump de- 
pends on the operation of the valves, and that 
without valves it could. not be worked, 
These, however, we had_ lost; yet 1 con- 
trived notwithstanding to put_my pumps 
into a condition for working. I had to find 
the means of supplying the loss of the valves, 
and to substitute something which would 
answer their purpose; that of completely 
stopping the holes of both the boxes, agree= 
ably to the action of the pump. -To efiect 
this, I heated two four-pound shot, and ap- 
plied them red-hot to the mouths of 44 
valves, where I let them burn the wood so 
as to bury themselves half-way in it; I then 
cooled them, and without any other prepae 
ration put them into the pump, Their 
weight did not prevent them from giving 
way to the water, as much as was necessary, 
both in the ascent and descent of the upper 
box; and these two motions acting.succes- 
sively upon them, brought them. back to 
their. position in the holes which they had 
burnt, and which of course they exactly 
filled. By this contrivance the pump worked 
as well as ever.” ; ee 
‘The method by which the Hindoos 
raised his vessel in order.to-repair it, is 
equally ingenious. ‘They dig a bason 
near the water side, of a fit size to con- 
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