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* his eye ; but no tear would flow to his relief. At length, he be- 

 ' came calm by degrees, and turning towards the call, where the fun 

 ' was then rifmg, ' Doft thou fee,' faid he to the youfig officer, ' the 

 " beauty of that fky, which fparkles with prevailing day ? and haft 

 *' thou pleafure in the fight?' ' Yes,' replied the officer, * I have 

 " pleafure in the beauty of fo fine a fky.' I have none,' faid the 

 ' Indian ;' and his tears then found their way. A few minutes af- 



* terwards he fhowed the young man a magnolio in full bloom. 

 " Doft thou fee that beautiful tree ?' fays he ; ' and doft thou look 

 " upon it with pleafure ?' ' Yes,' replied the officer, ' I do look 

 " with pleafure upon that beautiful tree.' — * I have pleaftire in look- 

 " ing upon it no more,' faid the Indian haftily, and immediately 

 ' added, * Go, return back, that thy father may ftill have pleafure 

 " when he fees the fun rife in the morning, and the trees bloffbm in 

 " the fpring." 



If the reader is not convinced by what he hears of a people, fo far 

 off as the other fide of the Atlantic, I will mention to him a 

 people, even in Europe, to whom he may himfelf go, and be fatis- 

 fied of the truth of what I am to fay of them. I was, indeed, much 

 furprifed myfelf when I firft heard of fuch a people in Europe, fuch 

 as 1 thought, were only to be found in the wilds of America, or in 

 fome of the iflands of the South Sea : But they are in a very remote 

 part of Europe, at a very great diftance from modern civility and re- 

 finement. They are called Morlacchi^ inhabiting the mountainous 

 part of Dalmatia, altogether out of the route of our fafhionable tra- 

 vellers : Nor do I know that they ever were vifited by any man of 

 letters or obfervation, except an Italian Abbe, one Fonte, from whom 

 we have the following account of them, publifhed in the Annual 

 Regifter for the year 1778. According to his account, they have 

 not only that public fpirit and attachment to their nation, and that 



hofpitality 



