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come forth to receive him. The festival shall be prepa ed Ah me! Peradventure he hath perished! Or now expires in some bloody field! impetuous in his valor, and eager in the ardour of youth, perchance he rushes on the foe, & fills!' While Marano thus indulged her inquietude,, the venerabie Ononthio was drawing nigh to console her. He had perceived the un. easiness of her soul, and had followed her unobserved from the village. He was the father of Oneyo, one of the elders of the nation, levered for his wisdom, and beloved for his humanity. Temperate in his youth, and active in his old age, he was vigorous and chearful. the furrows on his brow were not those of anxiety, but of time. His gait was stately, and his as. pect gracious. He loved Marano with the affection of a father. Be comforted,' he said; 'give not thy soul to despondency. The great Spirit who rides in the whirlwind, and speaks from the passing thun

"When will he return!' she said, my beloved Oneyo! 1 he husband of my affections! How I long to behold him? Ye waves of Ontario, convey him to his native shore; restore him to his friends, restore him to my tender embrace. O when shall I behold him? When will the swift canoe come bound-der. the father and governor of all ing over the lake, and waft the hero to his gladsome isle! Yes,thou happy isle! Thy rocks, thy resounding glades and thy forests. shall then rejoice. Gladness shali be in the village. The elders shall

things, will protect thee. But to merit his favour, he resigned to his will. It is impious to anticipate misery and render ourselves unhappy before we are actually afflicted. Yet capricious inconsist

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'I fondly imagined,' answered the Indian, that you loved us.-We named you after the manner of our tribe. But your affections are estranged,and you languish for the land of your fathers. I called you my daughter; but, Marano you would leave me.' Uttering these words, he looked tenderly upon her. You would leave me,' he repeated, and a tear rose in his eye. Mara

ent mortals, timid at once and pre-of Briton, my beson glows with sumptuous, tremble with the ima- peculiar transport.' gination of danger, and complain as if their sufferings were real. They create miseries to themselves and arrogantly charge them on the Almighty. Beware, my daughter beware of rebellion against the Almighty Spirit. If you repine inconsiderately, if you complain without actual cause, you rebel. He hath commanded us to be happy, he is ever offended with our disobedience; but if we encourage groundless anxiety, we disobey.no was affected. She clasped his By destroying your own tranquility you are no less an enemy to the general system of happiness he hath ordained, than if you injured the peace of another. Be comforted. Oneyo may soon return loaded with the spoils of the Briton, and extolled by the gallant warriors of France.'

To see my husband return in safety,' she replied, 'is the sum of my desires. To see him loaded with the spoils of the Briton will be no addition to my joy.' The Indian seemed astonished. Have you forgotten,' she continued, that I myself am a Briton? That I was carried violently from my fathers house, when the Outagami ravag ed our land, and carried terror to the gates of Albany? My parents perished. I was yet a child; bu: I remember the bloody carnage. My brother of riper years was rescued; but I became the prey of their fury Since that time, many 3 cars are elapsed; yet at the name

hand and pressed it to her rosy lips. No, I will never leave thee. My heart is thine and my beloved Oneyo's. I revere thee. Can I forget thy compassion? Can I forget the dreadful day when the Outagami, in an assembly of their nation, decreed me a sacrifice to their God Areskoui? You was present at an embassy from your people. Oneyo in the bloom of early years had accompanied his father. He was beside you. He sighed when he beheld me weep. ing. Alas! I was feeble, friendless, and beset with foes. Oneyo intreated you to relieve me. Your own heart was affected, you interposed in my behalf, you redeemed me and called me your's. Oneyo hastened to my deliverance, he loosened my fetters, and clasped me to his breast. Our affection Krew with our years: You beheld it with kind indulgence, and ratified our wishes with your consent. I have heard of European refinements, of costly raiment and lofty

palaces; yet to me the simplicity of these rocks and forests seems far more deliy htful. But if Oneyo returns not, I am undone. Many moons have arisen since with the flower of our tribe, he,departed. The matrons are already wailing for their sons.-Oneyo, abs! is impetuous, and the warriors of Albion are undaunted. The blood of their foes has already tinged the Ohio; Canado trembled at their approach, and may ere now have become the prize of their valour. An me! if thy son hath fallen, grief will subdue thee; I know the tenderness of thine affection, it will pull thee down to the grave. Who then will be a comforter to me? Who will be my friend? Among a strange people I have no father to protect me, no brother To counsel and give me aid.'

and the d. site of yielding her con-
solation, suspended and relieved
his sorrow. If my sen hath fail-
en,' he said, he hath falien as
became a warrior. His prise
shall be preserved by his kindred,
and descend to pos erity in the
war song.
His name shall terrify
the European, when the c' ief ins
of future times, rushing fierce
from their forest, shall sur ord
his habbitations at midnight, and
raise the yell of death in his ear.
Oneyo shall not die unrevenged.'

He shall not,' interrupted the Indian. The messengers of our misfortunes hovered, after the discomfiture of their allies,around the walls of Quebec. They surprised a party of the foe; they have brought captives to our island : The elders of the nation are now assembled; they have doomed them a sacrafice to the memory of the dead; and defer their execution only till you arival' Alas!* said Marano. the sacrifice of a

Ononthio was about to reply, when an Indian from the village accosted them. He told them with a sorrowful aspect, that the hopes of their tribe were blasted, for that some Indians of a neigh-captive will afford me small consobouring nation, having returned from Canada, brought certain intelligence of the total overthrow of their friends; that they had with difficulty escaped; that Oneye was seen fierce and intrepid in the heat of the battle; that he was surrounded by the foe, and must have fallen a victim to their fury.

Marano was overwhelmed. Ononthio heaved a sigh: But the Sapless condition of his daughter,

lation. Will the death of a foe restore life to my husband? Or heal his ghastly wounds? Or reanimate his breathless bosom? Leave me Leave me to my woe. to wail on these lonely mountains. Here I will not long be a sojourner. I will away to my love. I will meet him beyond the desarts in some blissful valley where no bloody fee shall invade us. Leave me to my sorrow, for I will not live. Sie entreated in vain; The