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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 22, 1830. 



AUTUMN WOODS. 



BY BRYANT. 



Ere, in the northern gale. 

 The summer tresses of the trees are gone. 

 The woods of Autumn, all around our vale, 



Have put (heir glory on. 



The mountains that infold 

 In their wide sweep, the colored landscape round, 

 Seem groups of giant kings in purple and in gold. 



That guard the enclianted ground. 



I roam the woods that crown 

 The upland, where the mingled splendors glow. 

 Where the gay company of trees look down 



On the green fields below. 



My steps are not alone 

 In these bright walks ; the sweet southwest at play, 

 Flies, rustling, where the painted leaves are strown 



Along the winding way. 



And far in heaven, the while, 

 The sun, that sends that gale to wander here. 

 Pours out on the fair earth his quiet smile, — 



The sweetest of- the year. 



Where now the solemn shade. 

 Verdure and gloom where many branches meet ; 

 So grateful when the noon of summer made 



The valleys sick with heat ' 



Let in through all the trees 

 Come the strange rays ; the forest depths are bright ; 

 Their sunny colored foliage in the breeze 



Twinkles like beams ot light. 



The rivulet, late unseen. 

 When bickering through the shrubs its waters run. 

 Shines with the image of its golden screen. 



And glimmerings of the sun. 



But-, 'neath yon crimson tree. 

 Lover to Hstening maid might breathe his flame. 

 Nor mark within its roseate canopy. 



Her blush of maiden shame. 



Oh, Atitumn! why so soon 

 Depart the hues that make thy forests glad; 

 Thy gentle wind and thy fair sunny noon. 



And leave the wild and sad. 



Ah, 'twere a lot too blest 

 Forever in thy colored shades to stray ; 

 Amidst the kisses of the soft south-west 



To rove and dream for aye. 



And leave the vain low strife 

 That makes men mad — the tug for wealth and power, 

 The passions and the cares that wither life. 



And waste its little hour. 



NEW ZEALAND. 



The fiftli volume of the Library of Entertaining 

 Knowledge contains a very interesting account of 

 these islands ; from which we e.xtract the follow- 

 ing : — Journal and Tribune. 



'Of all the people constituting the great Polyne- 

 sian family, the New Zealandershave,at least of late 

 years, attracted the largest portion of public atten- 

 tion. Their character e.xhibits, with remarkable 

 boldness of relief, many both of the vices and virtues 

 of the savage state. They present a striking con- 

 trast to the timid and lu.xurious Otaheitans, and the 

 miserable outcasts of Australia. Tiie masculine in- 

 dependence they at once manifested in their en- 

 counters with us, and the startling resistance they 

 offered to our proud pre-eminence, served to stimu- 

 late the feelings of curiosity with which we are now 

 accustomed to regard tiiem. The interest wliich 

 they thus e.\cite, is probably created, in a great de- 

 gree, by the prevailing dispositions of our minds to 

 regard with an.\ious attention any display of human 

 power. The new Zealanders are not a feeble or 

 timid people. Prom the days of tlieir first inter- 

 course with Europeans thev gave blow for blow. — 

 They did not stand still to'be slaughtered, like the 

 Peruvians by the Spaniards; but they tried the 



strength of the club against the flash of the musket. ' in a most doleful manner. Even the sternest chief 

 They have destroyed, sometimes treacherously, al- ' will weep so bitterly, that the mats they wear wi' 

 ways cruelly, the people of many European vessels, ! be soaked with tears. Yet this people, so passion 

 from the days of their first discovery to our own ately attached to their friends, eat the flesh of thei 

 times;— but it would be difficult to say that they had enemies, and consider it more delicious than an 

 no justification in our aggressions, wliether immedi- other food. 



ate or recollected— or at any rate that they did not ' The captain of the ship Boyd in the year 180! 

 strongly feel the necessity for self-defence on all ! flogged the son of a New Zealand chief ; in const 

 such occasions. They are ignorant of some of the quence of which the whole crew were murdered, es 

 commonest arts — their clothing is rude, their agri- [ cept a woman.two children,and a cabin-boy. Thes 

 culture imperfect, they have no knowledge of me- j were afterwards conveyed to England by Mr Berr'; 

 tals, writing is unknown to them ; — and yet they ex- ! of the ship Edinburgh, who found them out, aii 

 hibit the keenest sense of the value of those acquir- ' saved them at the risk of his own life, 

 ments which render Europeans so greatly their su- 1 'The last he recovered was a girl of two orthrc 

 periors. Many of the natives have voluntarily un- ' years of age, the daughter of a Mr Brougliton, < 

 dertaken a voyage to England, that they might see 1 Port Jackson, whose mother perished. This chi' 

 the wonders of civilization ; — and when they have was found to be in the possession of one oftliechiel 

 looked upon our fertile fields, our machines for the ' and although promised, was not brought to him t 

 abridgment of human labor, our manufactories, tliey after a considerable delay. ', This delay,' says 3 

 have begged to be sent back to their own country, I Berry, ' I afterwards had reason to believe procou^ 

 with the means of imitating what their own progress ed from the endeavors of the natives to deliver 



enabled them to comprehend were blessings. Their 

 passion is war; and they carry on that excitement in 

 the most terrific way that the fierceness of man has 

 ever devised ; — they devour their slaughtered ene- 

 mies. And yet they feel that this rude warfare may 

 be assisted by the arts of destruction which civilized 

 men employ ; and they come to us for the musket 

 and the sword, to invade,or to repel the invader. All 

 these, and many more features of their character, 

 shew an intellectual vigor, which is the root of ulti- 

 mate civilization. They are not insensible to the arts 

 of civilized life, as the New Hollander is ; — or whol- 

 ly bound in the chain of superstitions which control 

 the efforts of the docile Hindoo, and hold his mind 

 in thraldom. They are neither apathetic as the 

 Turk, who believes that nothing can change tlie des- 

 tiny of himself or his nation : nor self-satisfied as the 

 poor Tartar, who said, ' Were I to boast, it would be 

 of that wisdom I have received from God ; for, as on 

 the one hand, I yield to none in the conduct of war, 

 so on the other I have my talent in writing, inferior 

 perhaps only to them who inhabit the great cities of 

 Persia or India. Of other nations, unknown to me, 

 I do not speak.' The New Zealander knows his 

 own power as a savage ; but he also knows that the 

 people of European communities have a much more 

 extensive and durable power, which he is desirous to 

 share. He has his instruments of bone, but he asKs 

 for instruments of iron ; he has his club,but he comes 

 to us for a musket. Baubles he despises. He pos- 

 sesses the rude arts of savage nations in an eminent 

 degree: he can carve elegantly in wood, and he is 

 tattooed with a graceful minuteness which is not de- 

 void of symmetrical elegance. Yetheisnot insen- 

 sible to the value of the imitative arts of Europeans, 

 and he takes delight in our sculpture and our paint- 

 ings. His own social habits are refined — his cooke- 

 ry is coarse — his articles of furniture are rude. Yet 

 he adapts himself at once 1o the usages of the 

 best English society, and displays that ease and 

 self-confidence which are the peculiar marks of in- 

 dividual refinement. He e.xhibits little contradiction 

 between his original condition of a cannibal at home, 

 and his assumed one of a gentleman here. Add to 

 all this, that he is as capable of friendship as of en- 

 mity, — and we shall have no difficulty in perceiving 

 that the New Zealander possesses a character 

 which, at no distant period, may become an e.xample 

 of the rapidity with which the barbarian may be 

 vyholly refined, when brought intocontactv.'ith a na- 

 tion which neither insults nor oppresses him, and 

 which e.xhibits to him the influence of a benevolent 

 religion in connexion with the force of practical 

 knowledge.' 



up in as decent a manner as possible. It was ti 

 erably clean, with its hair dressed and ornament* 

 with white feathers, in the fashion of New Zealai 

 Its only clothing, however, consisted of a linen sli 

 which, from tlie marks upon it, had belonged h> 

 captain. The poor child was greatly emaciateil 

 its skin e.xcoriated all over. When brought tu 

 boat, it cried out in a feeble and complaining 1 

 ' Mamma, my mamma !' This child was carried 

 Lima in the City of Edinburgh, ship ; and it was r 

 till more than two years after leaving New Zeala 

 that she was restored to her father in New iS.jii 

 Wales. Although of so tender an age when 

 destruction of the Boyd took place, she was I'' 

 while in South America, to recollect well the dr. 

 ful scenes of which she had been witness. ' I I:. 

 more than once been present,' says Mr Ber! 

 ' when the cruel but interesting question was put 

 her, if she recollected what the Zealanders did tol 

 mamma.' Her countenance, on such occasions, i 

 sumed the appearance of the deepest melancho 

 and, without uttering a word, she used to draw 1. 

 hand across her throat. On further questions, s 

 would say, with every appearance of the most pa 

 ful feeling, that they afterwards cut her up, a 

 cooked and ate her like victuals.' 



Instead of signing their name to treaties, gran 

 &c. they make an e.xact copy of the tattooing up 

 their faces. This is better than the ancient Kussi 

 custom of daubing the whole hand with ink, a 

 then laying it upon the paper. 



When well treated they are a very kind and ht 

 pitable people. Several Englishmen, who have a 

 cidcntally been thrown among them, have been ts 

 toed, intermarried with them, and learned to lii 

 their mode of life e.\tremely. 



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with their own ignorance, afiects them deeply. On 

 such occasions they will burst into tears, and say, 

 ' New Zealand no good.' 



It is customary with this singular people to go 

 through the same ceremony upon meeting their 

 friends, as they do in parting with them. They join 

 their noses together, and remain in that position for 



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