288 A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCEIIPELAGO. 



landed tliGre^ infested the main roads, and riEed tlio 

 country-houses tliat were not far from tlic sea. But of 

 all tlie mischiefs done by the pirates^ that vThjcli occasioned 

 most complaints at Rome was the scarcity and dearness of 

 provisions, — a matter that always greatJy affecfcs the people. 

 The multitude, therefore, were overjoyed at tho proposal 

 made by Gabinius to commission Pompey to clear the 

 seas of those vermin," 



These references to history supply the strongest of all 

 argument."? — namely, fact^^ to show, fiiist — that on the same 

 cliaracter of soil the same crop will always grow; and 

 secondly, that it must be emdicated by the same means. 

 I shall presently have occasion ' to quote from an able 

 Oriental periodical, which, at the present day, specifies 

 tho enhanced cost of (dl prod me as an argument for the 

 suppression of piracy ; and doubtless when the evil shall 

 be appreciated in modern times, as the great PoiiPEY 

 appreciated it, we may hope to see his sequel paralleied, 

 and the Indian sea disembarrassed, as was the ^gean. 

 Forty days sufficed for the great Roman to deUver from 

 the monster pmACir tlie three granaries of Eome, — Sicily, 

 Sardinia, and the coa^sts of Africa ; so that what the poet 

 elegantly boasts for Iiim is no more than true- 



Atibe bifl cjciwtiim qaiiin CyhthiA condcrct orl-xxn^ 



ADgUH^LAqut] (]f>iniini l.<?iTartiin in kciIc pQjiQAciL^ 



Ere the Ml orli vd CifhTRi a s piiUWl liijlil, 

 Twice Ktujw'i] Uie Otttaii with fliiT Rtamlanla bright, 

 Tlic iTciulkliuK pir^ii^t;, from every i^ai* 

 Creucb'ii far one namjir hidip? place to ms. 



