662 
Puis trois fois, retragant en langage-rhuni- 
«igae 
Les terribles accents qui réveillent les morts, 
‘Trois fois il invoqua la vierge prophétique 
Qui depuis mille hivers habitait sur ces bords 3 
Quand soudain il entend de la terre profonde 
S'exhaler lentement des sons longs et plaintiis, 
Et s’agiter au loin, dans un cortézge immonde, 
A cés récits nouveaux des spectres attentifs. 
La Proph¥tesse. 
s¢ Ouels charmes inconnus, quelle voix témé- 
raire 
Osent troublet ainsi l’asyle des tombeaux ? 
Qui donc Ose Evoquer mon ombre tenes 
Et m’arracher au sein de la nuit du respos > 
Si du Lerceau des tems, les pleurs de la rosee, 
Journal of a Voyage in the Indian Seas. 
La neige des hivers, la chaleur des étés, 
Les orages nombreux de l’onde hyperborée 
Ont frappé sur ces os par Page mutilés ; 
Pour la premiére fois, qui donc voudrait de- 
scendre, 
En des lieux qu’un mortel sut toujours révé- 
‘ rer = 
Odin. 
Je te suis inconnu, mais respectais ta cendre. 
Va, celui qui t’appelle est le fils d’un guer- 
rier. 
Hate-toi de calmer mon ame impatiente, 
Toi qui lis Vavenir et Juge re passé ; : 
Enseigne- moi pour qui cette coupe éclatante, 
Pour quel heureux mortel ce lit dor fut 
dressé?”” &c. 
JOUR 
NAL OF A VOYAGE IN THE INDIAN SEAS, &c.. 
Ciiseihicntea by an OFFICER on BOARD Ais MAJESTY’s SHIP CAROLINE, 
(Concluded from page 545. ) 
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EER of a very curious species are 
sometimes, though rarely, found in 
the woods of this island; but hons, tigers, 
and other ferocious anitnals, are unknown. 
A tiger did once swém across from the 
Queda shore, and made for the mountains 
here, but was shot soon after his landing; 
he was supposed to be the only one that 
ever was on the island. Birds of the 
most beautiful plumage are seen on al- 
most every branch of a tree through this 
island; but nature has been so very 
bountiful in clothing them with her most 
gaudy liveries,that she has thought proper 
make a drawback, by depriving them of 
those melodious notes, which so often 
charm us in birds of a more homely ex- 
terior. 
There is, however, one small bird on 
this island (whose name I forget), which 
perches among the leaves of the tall 
areca tree, and sings mornings and even- 
ings, in a style far superior to that of any 
bird I have seen between the tropics. 
The argus pheasant is found on this 
island, but they are generally brought 
over dried from the Malay coast, where 
they abound in great plenty, and are here 
sold for a dollar each. 
With respect to the domestic animals 
they are but few; and those: brought 
from the neighbouring parts: horses trom 
Pedir, on the coast of Sumatra; buffa- 
loes from Queda; and sheep, &c. trom 
Bengal. 
The buffaloes are brought over from 
the opposite coast, in avery curious man- 
ner; six or eight of them being collected 
together on the beach, thongs of leather, 
or pieces of ratan, are passed in at one 
nostril and out of the other, then made 
fast to the sides and stern of one of the 
boats, which is pushed off from the shore, 
and the buffaloes driven into the water 
along with it; these thongs or ratans 
keeping their noses above water, and as- 
sisting them in swimming, until they gain 
the opposite shore, unless seized on their 
passage by the alligator. 
The buifalo often. becomes a most dan- 
eerous animal when enraged by the heat 
of the sun, or any other cause, and seems 
then to innitate thefrantic tragedy, which 
its savage master (the Malay) occasionally 
performs, when “ running the muck.” 
At these periods, the animal rushes fu- 
riously upon every thing in its way, and 
dashes into the houses, upsetting and 
breaking through all obstructions; as it 
is possessed of great muscular strength, 
and runs about with impetuous velocity, 
there is no mode of subduing it, but by 
killing the animal with spears or shot. 
A large one lately made a desperate 
sally through George town, while the 
gentlemen of the settlement fired on him 
in all directions, from their verendahs; 
at length he rushed through the gover- 
nor’s kitchen, upsetting the cook and all 
his utensils; but what was still worse, a 
ball from a rifle, aimed at the furious 
buffalo, unfortunately struck the poor 
harmless cook; and between the fright 
occasioned by the animal, and the idea 
of being shot to boot, he very nearly 
died. 
As these creatures have very little hair 
on their bodies; they are utterly unable 
« bear the scorching rays of the sun _to- 
wards mid-day : at these times, therefore 
they betake themselves to every pool 
and puddle in the neighbourhood, rolling 
themselves 
