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SECOND kind a nd filial attention, to remove the settled 



JOURNEY. 



- gloom from his too guilty brow. 



Theinha- This was not the time for a traveller to enjoy 

 Cayenne. The hospitality of the inhabitants was 

 the same as ever, but they had lost their wonted 

 gaiety in public, and the stranger might read 

 in their countenances, as the recollection of re- 

 cent humiliations and misfortunes every now and 

 then kept breaking in upon them, that they 

 were still in sorrow for their fallen country : the 

 victorious hostile cannon of Waterloo still sounded 

 in their ears : their Emperor was a prisoner 

 amongst the hideous rocks of St. Helena ; and 

 many a Frenchman who had fought and bled for 

 France was now amongst them, begging for a 

 little support to prolong a life which would be 

 forfeited on the parent soil. To add another 

 handful to the cypress and wormwood already 

 scattered amongst these polite colonists, they had 

 just received orders from the court of Janeiro to 

 put on deep mourning for six months, and half- 

 mourning for as many more, on account of the 

 death of the queen of Portugal. 



About a day's journey in the interior, is the 



celebrated national plantation. This spot was 



judiciously chosen, for it is out of the reach of 



enemies' cruisers. It is called La Gabrielle. No 



plantation in the western world can vie with 



plantation La Gabrielle. Its spices are of the choicest 



brieUe. *" kind ; its soil particularly favourable to them ; its 



