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human reason, or at least of arts consequent on that reason. 

 I do not behave it is possible to describe or paint the differ- 

 ence between savage and civihzed man. It is the diflference 

 between a wild and tame animal : and part of the interest in 

 beholding a savage, is the same which would lead every one 

 to desire to see the lion in his desert, the tiger tearing his 

 prey in the jungle, the rhinoceros on the wide plain, or the 

 hippopotamus wallowing in the mud of some African river. 



Among the other most remarkable spectacles which we 

 have beheld, may be ranked the stars of the southern hemi- 

 sphere — the water-spout — the glacier leading its blue stream 

 of ice in a bold precipice overhanging the sea — a lagoon 

 island raised by the coral-forming polypi — an active vol- 

 cano — and the overwhelming effects of a violent earthquake. 

 The three latter phenomena, perhaps, possess for me a 

 pecuhar interest, from their intimate connexion with the 

 geological structure of the world. The earthquake must 

 however, be to every one a most impressive event: the 

 earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type 

 of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our 

 feet ; and in seeing the most beautiful and laboured works 

 of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance 

 of his boasted power. 



It has been said, that the love of the chase is an inherent 

 delight in man — a relic of an instinctive passion. If so, I 

 am sure the pleasure of living in the open air, with the sky 

 for a roof, and the ground for a table, is part of the same 

 feeling: it is the savage returning to his wild and native 

 habits. I always look back to our boat cruises, and my land 

 journeys, when through unfrequented countries, with a kind 

 of extreme delight, which no scenes of civilization could have 

 created. I do not doubt that every traveller must remember 

 the glowing sense of happiness he experienced, from the 

 simple consciousness of breathing in a foreign cUme, where 

 the civilized man has seldom or never trod. 



There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long 

 voyage, which are, perhaps, of a more reasonable nature. 



