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So wondrously the spell divine descends, 

 And man with Nature in communion blends. 

 The isles have seen Him ! and the deserts raise 

 Anthems that thrill the halls of heaven with praise : 

 Crouching and tame the tiger passions lie, 

 Hush'd by the gaze of an Almighty eye ; 

 Temples and homes of sacred truth abound, 

 "Where Satan once with all his crew was found ; 

 And hark ! at sunset while the shady calm 

 Of forest coolness floats on wings of balm, 

 As roams the pilgrim in that dying glare, 

 From a lone hamlet winds the voice of prayer, — 

 Breath of the soul by Jesus taught to rise, 

 And blend with music heard beyond the skies ! 

 Ecstatic thought ! the zenith of our dreams ! 

 Error has died in Truth's victorious beams ! '' 



* While these sheets have been passing through the press, the fol- 

 lowing pleasing accounts have reached this country of the firm and 

 steady determination of these Chiefs to refuse joining the other tribes 

 in their attack upon the colony. 



" The Chiefs Pato, Kama, Congo, and Umgai remained firm 

 friends of the British, and had done all in their power to prevent 

 the attack. A council of war had been held by the brothers, at 

 which Pato stated he had been called a coward by the hostile Chiefs 

 for not joining them. He however declared that a coward he would 

 remain, as he was determined not to fight against the English. He 

 declared that he would ' go out from amongst all the Chiefs who 

 should engage in the attack for ever ;' all his brothers concurred in 

 this opinion. The brothers had shown the greatest zeal to protect the 

 colonists, and had risked their own lives and property to save those 

 of the English.'' — Morning Herald, April 23rd, 1835. 



