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charm of the East. The West has its peculiar splendours—in sun and 
climate America is not less dazzling; but the moral attraction of Asia 
lies in the sentiment of unity which you feel in a world where man 
is not divorced from nature; where the primitive alliance remains 
unbroken ; where the animals are ignorant that they have cause to 
dread the human species. Laugh at it if you will; but there is a 
gentle pleasure in observing this confidence—in seeing the birds come 
at the Brahmin’s call to eat from lis very hand—in watching the apes 
on the pagoda-reots sleeping in domestic peace, playing with or suck- 
ling their little ones in as much security as in the bosom of their 
native forests. 
“At Cairo,” remarks a traveller, “the turtle-doves know so well 
they are under the protection of the public, that they live in the 
midst of the very clamour of the city. Every day I see them cooing 
