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LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. 
the rebellions Bonders, at the head of a handful of 
foreign troops, and such as remained faithful among his 
own people. On the eve of that last battle, on which 
he stakes throne and life, he intrusts a large sum 
of money to a Bonder, to be laid out “ on churches, 
priests, and alms-men, as gifts for the souls of such 
as may fall in battle against himself —strong in the 
conviction of the righteousness of his cause, and the 
assured salvation of such as upheld it. 
He makes a glorious end. Forsaken by many 
whom he had loved and served,—yet forgiving and 
excusing them; rejecting the aid of all who denied 
that holy Faith which had become the absorbing in¬ 
terest ot his life,—but surrounded by a faithful few, 
who share his fate; “ in the lost battle, borne down 
by the flying”—he falls, transpierced by many wounds, 
and the last words on his fervent lips are prayer 
to God . 1 
Surely there was a gallant saint and soldier. Yet 
he was not the only one who bore himself nobly on that 
day. Here is another episode of that same fatal fight. 
1 The exact date of the battle of Sticklestad is known: an 
eclipse of the sun occurred while it was going on. 
