CARNIVORA. 
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The tender ties of father, husband, friend. 
All bonds of nature in that moment end ; 
And each endures, while yet he draws his breath, 
A stroke as fatal as the scythe of death. 
The sable warrior, frantic with regret 
Of her he loves, and never can forget. 
Loses in tears the far receding shore. 
But not the thought — that they must meet no more ! 
The enterprise of trade has induced Europeans to tra- 
verse the new world, discovered by Columbus, in al- 
most every direction ; so that the interior of America 
is already known much more extensively than that of 
Africa, which has been visited only by a very few 
zealous emissaries, or adventurous devotees of sci-. 
ence, the majority of whom have unhappily fallen 
martyrs to their respective pursuits. Their exertions, 
however, have of late placed Africa in a different 
point of view from that in which it has been generally 
regarded; and instead of the inaccessible deserts, 
which were supposed to extend themselves over the 
whole interior of that vast continent, they have 
brought to light extensive kingdoms, spacious cities, 
large and important navigable rivers, ample tracts of 
land fit for cultivation, and many new species of 
animals. Still our knowledge of this portion of the 
globe is very limited, nearly one hundred thousand 
square leagues being supposed never yet to have 
been visited by any European ; and, as the varied 
forms of animated nature are observed to be local, 
each species, and sometimes a whole genus, being 
confined to certain countries and districts, so that. 
