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could be heard at a great distance. The next morning 
we again commenced our trade with these free and 
simple-hearted people, and everything was conducted 
in the same manner as on the preceding day ; we ob- 
tained altogether about eighty full-grown goats, several 
pigs, a few fowls, and a great many potatos, with about 
a dozen fine water-melons. 
As the sun was setting we bade adieu to our new 
friends, but not without some pain ; for even here we 
had received many warm-hearted attentions from several 
of the natives, who signalized themselves by attending to 
our comforts and accommodations in such a manner that 
could not prevent the inestimable feeling of gratitude 
from springing up in our own bosoms. 
We stood along the shore all night under very easy 
sail and very light wind, while a volcano which was 
burning on the island shot its red gleams around, and 
made “darkness visible 55 everywhere except in its own 
immediate neighbourhood. But when the grey mom 
peeped from the brightening east, when the dark shadows 
of night had been chased away, then indeed a grand 
picture appeared, which enwrapped the admirer of nature 
in its labyrinth of beauties. If the wanderer loves to 
contemplate the majestic mountain, here he may gaze 
until the eye, carried into the clouds along its ascending 
form, can reach no further, and he is left to imagine the 
extent above, if he enjoys the scenes of rocky glens or 
vast precipices, he can find them here. If he delights in 
verdant plains or woody dells, this would be his retreat ; 
and if the extensive ocean in its turbulence pleases his 
