214 A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



el led an enduring lustre on the country of hk birth. But 

 for tliis end, lie must take home to the land of his 

 adoption a feeling that he Is conMed in and co-operated 

 with, a^i a rnan suigie in purpose, strong, in desiroj aa in 

 power, for goo J. 



In that ease even we, his cotempoi-arios, may live to see 

 radiating from the scene of his remarkable career^ aa from 

 a splendid ceotre, bright rays of freedom, of fiocial and 

 eommercial intercotirse, and, above all, of pure and 

 practical Chris tianitj, which shall eclipse the splendour of 

 the warrior, by humanieing the barbarism which he 

 perpetuates. 



The feelmgs which were uppermost with my friend 

 Brooke on first visitmg these shores liavo stolen, as it 

 were, without any parade of his before the public eye — 

 first, I am happy to say, through my own appreciation 

 of them, — ^they arc embodied In some lines %vbich the 

 reader will thank me for recalling to his memory, and to 

 ^luch he may give tlio best practical response by his 

 support of the Bomcan mission : — • 



'''Beautiful huA ! upon so puni s plain 

 Shall ^upeTstiiion hold hor hated rciya -f 

 iluit Bigtitrj^ build lip hdT chccrlcee sKrmd 

 Id Eunlb an a^r, on miAi an carlli ae tldne 1 

 Alas ! ItcLigion from tliy placid iaJea 

 Vol] J tlie warm ^pltMidoiir <tf hav htis^v'jily ^Ucs^ 

 And tlic "rapL gaxer in tho bcatitecuA plan 

 Setts natbing dark ereept Uic aotit of mau.'' * 



Can any hereafter syrapathifie with those who would 



