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and will be remembered in the colony for years 

 to come. 



Here he learned that an eruption had talicn 

 place in St. Vincent's; and thus'thc iioise heard 

 in the night of the first of May. wliit^hhad caiis-ad 

 snch terror amongst the Indians, and 'made tne 

 garrison at Fort St. Joachim remain under arms 

 the rest of the night, is accounted for. 



After experiencing every kindness and atten- 

 tion from Mr. Edmonstone, he sailed for Gra- 

 nada, and from thence to St. Thomas's, a few 

 days before poor Captain Peake lost his life on 

 his own quarter-deck, bravely fighting for his 

 country on the coast of Guiana. 



At St. Thomas's they show you a tower, a little 

 distance from the town, which they say formerly 

 belonged to a Bucanier chieftain. Probably the 

 fury of besiegers has reduced it to its present 

 dismantled state. What still remains of it bears 

 testimony of its former strength, and may brave 

 the attack of time for centuries. You cannot 

 view its ruins without calling to mind the exploits 

 of. those fierce and hardy hunters, long the terror 

 of the western world. While you admire their 

 undaunted courage, you lament that it was often 

 stained with cruelty; while you extol their scru- 

 pulous justice to each other, you will find a want 

 of it towards the rest of mankind. Often pos- 

 sessed of enormous wealth, often in extreme 

 poverty, often triumphant on the ocean, and often 

 forced to fly to the forests, their life was an ever- 

 changing scene of advance and retreat, of glory 

 and disorder, of luxury and famine. Spain 

 treated them as outlaws and pirates, while other 



