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Mr. Buckingham’s Address. 
diving i his eee: eh Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, and to the borders of 
Media and Persia, in which he was engaged for several years. On his return from 
teem and admiration of the ve reg who had so largely benefitted by his labors, ex- 
cited their envy and ill-will; so that he a second time left his native land, and then 
visited Greece. It was there, in ie great festival of the Olympic Games, about five 
hundred years before Christian era, being then in the fortieth year of his age, that 
he stood up among assembled myriads of the most intellectual auditors of the ancient 
world, to relic in oral discourses, drawn from the recollection of his personal travels, 
the subject m of his interesting history 1 description of the Countries of the 
East; and fool's as its effect upon the generous hearts and esr intellects of his 
pret ioe te hearers, that while the celebrated Thue ydides, then among them as a boy, 
shed tears at the’ recita lof the events of the Persian war, and his young bosom was 
accomplished historians of Greece, the people received Herodotus with such universal ap- 
plause, that as an honor of the highest kind, the names of the nine Muses were bestowed 
upon the nine Books or subdivisions of his interesting narrative, which they continue to 
bear to the present hour in every language into which they have been translated. 
Pythagoras, of Samos, is. another striking instance of a similar career. Disgusted 
, he retired from his native island 5 = ‘having previously 
travelled extensively i in Chaldea and Egypt, d at the 
Olympic games of Greece, and travelled through Italy and Magrie- Grecia, delivering, i in 
daa ih rapid success, and a reformation soon took place in the 
life and Mistits of the people 
might go on to enlarge the catalogue of precedents, for both ancient and modern 
history is full of them— Marco Polo, Columbus, Camoens, Raleigh, and Bruce (all, too, 
ted with the deepest injustice by their countrymen) will occur to every one — but it 
is unnecessary. May I only venture to hope, that as some similarity exists between my 
own history and sufferings from tyranny and the ingratitude of contemporaries and that 
which marked the career of —_ pret men — —— nye — at sat us and 
Pythagoras— as wella rie 
information thus ponent by oral di the pe stk of other lands— the 
e tinued — it not in the honors to be acquired, at least in the 
that i 
imilarity may be happily co 
amount of the good to be ioe? ‘and in this last mapee’ the et a and vate 
Grecia of the East may fairly yield the palm to the m d intel- 
ligent Columbia of the West, is my most earnest nies aa desire, my fasdk nals and 
fervent prayer. 
say no more, except to add, that should my humble labors among you be 
crowned with the success which I venture to anticipate, and should Providence spare 
West Indies ; to visit 
ting this barrier between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean ; to make an excursion through 
Mexico, and from thence pass onward by the South Sea Islands to China, visit the Phil- 
lippines the go onward to Australia and Van Dieman’s Land; continue 
