Indians make use of, which was very disagreeable to nature by the blasphemous thanks offered up to the taste. We labored all next day against the stream, Heaven, for victories obtained over men fighting in and fared as we had done the day before. The next the sacred cause of liberty, by murderers and oppressday brought us to the carrying-place. Here was plenty ors, are events generally known.

of wood, but nothing to be got for sustenance. We passed this night, as we had frequently done, under a tree; but what we suffered at this time is not easy to be expressed. I had been three days at the oar without any kind of nourishment except the wretched mot above mentioned. I had no shirt, for it had rotted off by bits. All my clothes consisted of a short grieko (something like a bear-skin), a piece of red cloth which had once been a waistcoat, and a ragged pair of trowsers, without shoes or stockings."

Note 2, page 2, col. 2.

a Briton and a friend.

Don Patricio Gedd, a Scotch physician in one of the Spanish settlements, hospitably relieved Byron and his wretched associates, of which the commodore speaks in the warmest terms of gratitude.

Note 3, page 2, col. 2.

Or yield the lyre of Heaven another string.

Note 10, page 5, col. 2.

The shrill horn blew.

The negroes in the West Indies are summoned to their morning work by a shell or horn.

Note 11, page 6, col. 1.

How long was Timour's iron sceptre sway'd? To elucidate this passage, I shall subjoin a quotation from the preface to Letters from a Hindoo Rajah, a work of elegance and celebrity.

The impostor of Mecca had established, as one of the principles of his doctrine, the merit of extending it, either by persuasion or the sword, to all parts of the earth. How steadily this injunction was adhered to by his followers, and with what success it was pursued, is well known to all who are in the least conversant in history.

"The same overwhelming torrent which had inundated the greater part of Africa, burst its way The seven strings of Apollo's harp were the sym-into the very heart of Europe, and covering many bolical representation of the seven planets. Herschell, by discovering an eighth, might be said to add another string to the instrument.

Linnæus.

Note 4, page 2, col. 2.

The Swedish sage.

Note 5, page 2, col. 2.

Deep from his vaults, the Loxian murmurs flow.

Loxias is the name frequently given to Apollo by Greek writers; it is met with more than once in the Chaphora of Eschylus.

kingdoms of Asia with unbounded desolation, directed its baneful course to the flourishing provinces of Hindostan. Here these fierce and hardy adventurers, whose only improvement had been in the science of destruction, who added the fury of fanaticism to the ravages of war, found the great end of their conquest opposed, by objects which neither the ardor of their persevering zeal, nor savage barbarity, could surmount. Multitudes were sacrificed by the cruel hand of religious persecution, and whole countries were deluged in blood, in the vain hope, that by the destruction of a part, the remainder might be persuaded, or terrified, into the profession of Mahomedism. But all these sanguinary efforts were ineffectual; and at length, being fully convinced, that though they might extirpate, they could never hope to convert, any number of the Hindoos, they relinquished the impracticable idea with which they had entered upon their career of conquest, and contented themAmong the negroes of the West Indies, Obi, or selves with the acquirement of the civil dominion Obiah, is the name of a magical power, which is be- and almost universal empire of Hindostan."-Letters lieved by them to affect the object of its malignity from a Hindoo Rajah, by ELIZA HAMILTON.

Note 6, page 3, col. 1.

Unlocks a generous store at thy command,
Like Horeb's rocks beneath the prophet's hand.
See Exodus, chap. xvii, 3, 5, 6.

Note 7, page 4, col. 1.

Wild-Obi flies.

with dismal calamities. Such a belief must undoubtedly have been deduced from the superstitious mythology of their kinsmen on the coast of Africa. I have, therefore, personified Obi as the evil spirit of the African, although the history of the African tribes mentions the evil spirits of their religious creed by a different appellation.

Note 8, page 4, col. 1.

-Sibir's dreary mines.

Mr. Bell, of Antermony, in his Travels through Siberia, informs us that the name of the country is universally pronounced Sibir by the Russians.

Note 9, page 4, col. 2.

Presaging wrath to Poland-and to man!

Note 12, page 6, col. 1.

And braved the stormy spirit of the Cape. See the description of the Cape of Good Hope, translated from Camüens, by Mickle.

Note 13, page 6, col. 1.

While famish'd nations died along the shore. The following account of British conduct, and its consequences, in Bengal, will afford a sufficient idea of the fact alluded to in this passage.

After describing the monopoly of salt, betel-nut, and tobacco, the historian proceeds thus:-" Money, in this current, came but by drops; it could not quench the thirst of those who waited in India to receive it. An expedient, such as it was, remained to quicken The history of the partition of Poland, of the mas- its pace. The natives could live with little salt, but sacre in the suburbs of Warsaw, and on the bridge could not want food. Some of the agents saw themof Prague, the triumphant entry of Suwarrow into selves well situated for collecting the rice into stores; the Polish capital, and the insult offered to human they did so. They knew the Gentoos would rather

die than violate the principles of their religion by eating flesh. The alternative would therefore be between giving what they had, or dying. The inhabitants sunk ;-they that cultivated the land, and saw the harvest at the disposal of others, planted in doubt -scarcity ensued. Then the monopoly was easier managed-sickness ensued. In some districts the

Note 18, page 8, col. 1.
The robber Moor!

See SCHILLER'S tragedy of The Robbers, scene v.
Note 19, page 8, col. 1.

What millions died-that Cæsar might be great! The carnage occasioned by the wars of Julius Cæ languid living left the bodies of their numerous dead sar, has been usually estimated at two millions of unburied."-Short History of the English Transactions

in the East Indies, page 145.

Note 14, page 6, col. 1.

Nine times have Brama's wheels of lightning hurl'd
His awful presence o'er the alarmed world.

men.

Note 20, page 8, col. 1.

Or learn the fate that bleeding thousands bore, March'd by their Charles to Dnieper's swampy shore. Among the sublime fictions of the Hindoo mythol-XII. of Sweden, speaking of his military exploits be"In this extremity" (says the biographer of Charles ogy, it is one article of belief, that the Deity Brama fore the battle of Pultowa)," the memorable winter has descended nine times upon the world in various of 1709, which was still more remarkable in that

forms, and that he is yet to appear a tenth time, in the figure of a warrior upon a white horse, to cut off all incorrigible offenders. Avatar is the word used to express his descent.

Note 15, page 6, col. 2.

Shall Seriswattee wave her hallow'd wand! And Camdeo bright, and Ganesa sublimeCamdeo is the God of Love, in the mythology of the Hindoos. Ganesa and Seriswattee correspond to the pagan deities, Janus and Minerva.

Note 16, page 7, col. 1.

The noon of manhood to a myrtle shade!
Sacred to Venus is the myrtle shade.-Dryden.

Note 17, page 8, col. 1.

Thy woes, Arion.

Falconer, in his poem The Shipwreck, speaks of himself by the name of Arion. See FALCONER'S Shipwreck, Canto III.

part of Europe than in France, destroyed numbers of his troops; for Charles resolved to brave the seasons as he had done his enemies, and ventured to make long marches during this mortal cold. It was in one of these marches that two thousand men fell down dead with cold before his eyes."

Note 21, page 8, col. 1.

-as Iona's saint.

The natives of the island of Iona have an opinion that on certain evenings every year the tutelary saint Columba is seen on the top of the church spires counting the surrounding islands, to see that they have not been sunk by the power of witchcraft.

Note 22, page 8, col. 2.

And part, like Ajut,-never to return!
See the history of AJUT AND ANNINGAIT, in The
Rambler.

Gertrude of Wyoming.

IN THREE PARTS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

PART I.

I.

Most of the popular histories of England, as well ON Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! as of the American war, give an authentic account Although the wiid-flower on thy ruin'd wall of the desolation of Wyoming, in Pennsylvania, which And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring took place in 1778, by an incursion of the Indians. Of what thy gentle people did befall; The Scenery and Incidents of the following Poem Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all are connected with that event. The testimonies of That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore. historians and travellers concur in describing the in- Sweet land! may I thy lost delights recall, fant colony as one of the happiest spots of human And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore, existence, for the hospitable and innocent manners of Whose beauty was the love of Pennsylvania's shore! the inhabitants, the beauty of the country, and the luxuriant fertility of the soil and climate. In an evil hour, the junction of European with Indian arms, Delightful Wyoming! beneath thy skies, converted this terrestrial paradise into a frightful The happy shepherd swains had nought to do waste. Mr. ISAAC WELD informs us, that the ruins But feed their flocks on green declivities, of many of the villages, perforated with balls, and Or skim perchance thy lake with light canoe, bearing marks of conflagration, were still preserved From morn till evening's sweeter pastime grew, by the recent inhabitants, when he travelled through With timbrel, when beneath the forests brown, America, in 1796. Thy lovely maidens would the dance renew,

II.

And shield the bird unfledged, since gone the parent Preserver of my old, my boon companion's child!— dove.

XV.

"Christian! I am the foeman of thy foe;

XXI.

"Child of a race whose name my bosom warms,

Our wampum league thy brethren did embrace: (6) On earth's remotest bounds how welcome here!

Upon the Michigan, three moons ago,

We launch'd our pirogues for the bison chase,
And with the Hurons planted for a space,
With true and faithful hands, the olive-stalk;
But snakes are in the bosoms of their race,
And though they held with us a friendly talk,
The hollow peace-ee fell beneath their tomahawk!
XVI.

"It was encamping on the lake's far port,
A cry of Areouski broke our sleep,
Where storm'd an ambush'd foe thy nation's fort,
And rapid, rapid whoops came o'er the deep!
But long thy country's war-sign on the steep
Appear'd through ghastly intervals of light,
And deathfully their thunders seem'd to sweep,
Till utter darkness swallow'd up the sight,

As if a shower of blood had quench'd the fiery fight!

XVII.

"It slept-it rose again-on high their tower
Sprung upwards like a torch to light the skies,
Then down again it rain'd an ember shower,
And louder lamentations heard we rise:
As when the evil Manitou,2 (7) that dries
Th' Ohio woods, consumes them in his ire,
In vain the desolated panther flies,
And howls amidst his wilderness of fire:

Whose mother oft, a child, has fill'd these arms,
Young as thyself, and innocently dear,
Whose grandsire was my early life's compeer.
Ah, happiest home of England's happy clime!
How beautiful ev'n now thy scenes appear,
As in the noon and sunshine of my prime!
How gone like yesterday these thrice ten years of time!

XXII.

"And, Julia! when thou wert like Gertrude now,
Can I forget thee, fav'rite child of yore?
Or thought I, in thy father's house, when thou
Wert lightest-hearted on his festive floor,
And first of all his hospitable door

To meet and kiss me at my journey's end?
But where was I when Waldegrave was no more?
In woes, that ev'n the tribe of deserts was thy friend!"
And thou didst pale thy gentle head extend,

XXIII.

He said and strain'd unto his heart the boy;
Far differently, the mute Oneyda took (10)
His calumet of peace,' (11) and cup of joy;
As monumental bronze unchanged his look:

A soul that pity touch'd, but never shook;

Train'd from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier, (12)
The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook

Alas! too late, we reach'd and smote those Hurons dire! Impassive (13)-fearing but the shame of fear

XVIII.

"But as the fox beneath the nobler hound,
So died their warriors by our battle-brand;
And from the tree we, with her child, unbound
A lonely mother of the Christian land-
Her lord-the captain of the British band-
Amidst the slaughter of his soldiers lay.
Scarce knew the widow our deliv'ring hand;
Upon her child she sobb'd, and swoon'd away
Or shriek'd unto the God to whom the Christians pray.

XIX.

"Our virgins fed her with their kindly bowls
Of fever-balm and sweet sagamité : (8)
But she was journeying to the land of souls,
And lifted up her dying head to pray

That we should bid an ancient friend convey
Her orphan to his home on England's shore;
And take, she said, this token far away,
To one that will remember us of yore,

A stoic of the woods-a man without a tear.

XXIV.

Yet deem not goodness on the savage stock
Of Outalissi's heart disdain'd to grow;
As lives the oak unwither'd on the rock
By storms above, and barrenness below:
He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe:
And ere the wolf-skin on his back he flung,
Or laced his moccasons, (14) in act to go,
A song of parting to the boy he sung,
Who slept on Albert's couch, nor heard his friendly
tongue.

XXV.

"Sleep, wearied one! and in the dreaming land
Shouldst thou to-morrow with thy mother meet, (15)
O! tell her spirit, that the white man's hand
Hath pluck'd the thorns of sorrow from thy feet;
While I in lonely wilderness shall greet
Thy little foot-prints-or by traces know

When he beholds the ring that Waldegrave's Julia The fountain, where at noon I thought it sweet

wore.

XX.

"And I, the eagle of my tribe,3 (9) have rush'd
With this lorn dove."-A sage's self-command
Had quell'd the tears from Albert's heart that gush'd;
But yet his cheek-his agitated hand-

1 The Indian God of War. 2 Manitou, Spirit or Deity.
3 The Indians are distinguished both personally and by tribes

by the name of particular animals, whose qualities they affect to resemble, either for cunning, strength, swiftness, or other qualities:-as the eagle, the serpent, the fox, or bear.

1 Calumet of peace.-The Calumet is the Indian name for the ornamented pipe of friendship, which they smoke as a pledge of amity.

2 Tree-rock'd cradle.-The Indian mothers suspend their children in their cradles from the boughs of trees, and let them be rocked by the wind.

And pour'd the lotus-horn,' or slew the mountain-roe. But silent not that adverse eastern path,

Was Outalissi hail'd, with bark and plumage bright. The sun-rise drew her thoughts to Europe forth,