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four days, but afterwards declared he 
would henceforth entirely abstain from 
food. On the 30th of October he died, 
after fasting 66 days (with the excep¬ 
tion of the four above mentioned) in 
the whole of which time, all lie allowed 
himself to take was a little warm water. 
His body, as may well be imagined, 
was merely a skeleton, but lie retained 
all his intellectual faculties to the last. 
Having hereby acquired the title of 
saint, his corpse was attended to the 
funeral pile by all the Banias of the 
city, with the pomp and ceremonies 
usual on such occasions. 
PACIFIC OCEAN. 
About 30 miles northwest of Nooahe- 
vah, one of the Marquesas Islands, 
Capt. Powell, of the Queen Charlotte, 
brought away from the top of a rock 
a man who had lived there nearly three 
years, like Robinson Crusoe. In the be¬ 
ginning of 1814, this man proceeded 
thither from Nooahevah with four 
others, all of whom had left an Ame¬ 
rican boat, in order to collect certain 
feathers which are highly valued by the 
inhabitants of Nooahevah. The boat 
being wrecked on the rock, three of 
his companions shortly died of hunger 
and especially thirst, there being no 
other water than the rain when it fell. 
The fourth remained with him a few 
weeks, when he determined to make for 
the island by swimming, supported by 
a piece of wood which remained of the 
boat, but he must have inevitably 
perished. He himself attempted to 
escape from his desperate situation by 
making a raft, but he failed in the un¬ 
dertaking, and lost the means of re¬ 
newing it. From the first, they had 
brought away fire from Nooahevah, and 
he had always taken care to preserve 
it, but one day, having moved to a little 
distance, the fire went out, and he 
could not have rekindled it, but for 
some grains of gunpowder and part of 
a musket which he had broken while 
making his raft. His only sustenance 
was the flesh and blood of wild fowl; 
the blood quenched his thirst, and the 
skulls of his dead comrades were his 
drinking vessels. A mere chance dis¬ 
covered him to the Queen Charlotte, 
asJhe rock was known to be desert 
and barren ; but a fire being observed 
at night, as the vessel was passing by, 
search was made, and the inhabitant 
of the rock taken up. Capt. Powell 
conveyed him to Nooahevah, and left 
him in the care of an European named 
Wilson, who had resided in that island 
several years, and who had been per¬ 
sonally acquainted with him previous 
to this his adventure. 
Letters from Calcutta report the es¬ 
tablishment of a British colony in the 
island of New Zealand. It appears to 
have assumed a regular form, and 
is considered as dependant on the go¬ 
vernment of New South Wales. Mr. 
J. Bullier, the missionary, is authorized 
by Governor Macquarrie, to act as jus¬ 
tice of peace and magistrate. Mr. 
Marsden, first missionaiy in New South 
Wales, has proceeded with other mis¬ 
sionaries to New Zealand, to provide 
the means of instruction and prosperity 
for the establishment. 
A letter from Mr. Samuel Leigh, 
missionaiy in New Zealand, says, 44 as 
I was walking on the beach in con¬ 
versation with a chief, my attention 
was arrested by a great number of per¬ 
sons coming from a neighbouring hill. 
Enquiring into the reason of such a 
concourse. I found that they had killed 
a young man, whom they were going to 
roast and eat. 3 repaired instantly to 
the spot, and coming to the village 
where the people had assembled, I 
asked to see the body ; 1 was shewn a 
great fire at some distance, and was 
told I should find it there. When ar¬ 
rived, I found the place besmeared with 
blood, where the head of the wretched 
victim had been cut off, and drawing 
near the fire, beheld with horror, a 
fierce looking man of gigantic size, 
wholly nakeH and armed with a large 
hatchet. This cook, for that was the 
cannibal's trade, shewed me the young 
person half roasted, holding him up by 
the legs. I then returned to the village, 
where I found a number of persons 
seated in a circle, preparing potatoes, 
and waiting for the body being roasted. 
Among them was the mother of the 
young person, wliojlike him was a slave, 
and had been made a prisoner of war. 
This unfortunate mother would perhaps 
have been obliged to take a share in the 
horrible feast, if I had not succeeded 
in persuading the people to bury the 
corpse.” 
UNITED STATES. 
The Abbe Inglesi, after several 
months travelling through all North 
America, has been so affected Avith re¬ 
ligious compassion for the uninstructed 
native tribes, that he has resolved to 
share in the pious labours of M. Du- 
bourg, missionary of Upper and Lower 
Louisiana, and those of his companions. 
(M. Dubourg left France in 1817? on 
