CHAPTER XL. 



VOYAGE FROM BOMBAY TO GOA, AND TELLICIIERRY ; IN- 

 CLUDING THE SIEGE OF ONORE, AND ENSUING 

 BLOCKADE, BY THE ARMY OF TIPPOO 

 SULTAUN. 1784. 



" Quis fuit, horrendos primus qui protulit enses ? 



Quam ferus, et vere ferrens ille fuit ! 

 Tunc ccedes hominum generi, tunc praelia nata ; 



Tunc brevior dirae mortis aperta via est. 

 At nihil ille miser meruit; nos ad mala nostra 



Vertimus, in saevas quod dedit ille feras. 

 Divitis hoc vitium est auri : nee bella fuerunt, 



Faginus adstabat dum scyphus ante dapes. 

 Non arces, non vallus erat; somnumque petebat 



Securus saturas dux gregis inter oves. Tibul. El. 1 1 . 



'.' Who was the first that forg'd the deadly blade ? 

 Of rugged steel his savage soul was made; 

 By him, his bloody flag Ambition wav'd, 

 And grisly Carnage through the battle rav'd. 

 Yet wherefore blame him ? We're ourselves to blanre; 

 Arms first were forg'd to kill the savage game ; 

 Death-dealing battles were unknown of old, 

 Death-dealing battles took their rise from gold : 

 When beechen bowls on oaken tables stood, 

 When temperate acorns were our fathers' food, 

 The swain slept peaceful with his flocks around, 

 No trench was open'd, and no fortress frown'd." 



