tained that they might learn our language, and acquire the habits of civilisation, so as to introduce them, on their return, among their own compatriots. One of them was a full-grown man, York Minster, a gruff and surly fellow, who could never be induced to learn anything. Jemmy Button was a good-natured boy of no great capacity; and Fuegia Basket was a rather pleasing and very intelligent girl. Considerable. interest was felt in these visitors from the antipodes, and even the king and queen expressed a desire to see them. They were accordingly taken to the palace, and were received with all the gentle kindness so characteristic of Queen Adelaide. Captain FitzRoy consigned them to the care of a schoolmaster at Walthamstow; and after a few months, accompanied by Mr Matthews, a missionary, he carried them back to their native isles. It may be questioned whether their residence in England was sufficiently long; and it is likely that, had a selection been practicable, more promising pupils might have been found than York Minster and Jemmy Button. At all events, the experiment was very unproductive. On landing in their own country, York Minster married Fuegia Basket, and being a powerful, resolute man, it is possible that he may have been able to preserve from his rapacious neighbours the implements and manufactured articles with which he was freely supplied. But poor Jemmy was soon victimised. His goods were stolen, and his little garden was trodden down;

justifying his verdict, "My people very bad; no sabe nothing; my people very great fool." And as the violence of the people forced Mr Matthews to return on board, there is too much reason to fear that, left to themselves, his scholars would soon relapse into the surrounding barbarism.

CHAPTER VII.

First Toils.

My wanderings thou hast numbered;
Even every tear mine eyes have shed

Thy vial holds ;

All in the folds

Of thy large volume read.

Psalm lvi. 8.-George Sandys.

If our lives are preserved, and our attempt prospered, we shall next New Year's Day be in India. We shall no more see our kind friends around us, or enjoy the conveniences of civilised life, or go to the house of God with those that keep holy day; but swarthy countenances will everywhere meet our eye, the jargon of an unknown tongue will assail our ears, and we shall witness the assembling of the heathen to the worship of idol gods. We shall be weary of the world, and wish for wings like a dove. We shall probably experience seasons when we shall be " exceeding sorrowful, even unto

death."-Dr Judson.

WHEN Dr Judson wrote to his future wife the words just quoted, he did not know how terribly the prognostic would be fulfilled. He did not foresee the perils of the Burmese war, and the unimagined horrors of the death-prison at Rangoon. And it is well for us that there is no Agabus to reveal the tribulations through which each must pass to the Kingdom, or to set fully before us the dangers and hardships which attend a new undertaking.

It was with a cheerful eye that Mr Williams and his comrades surveyed the scene of their projected campaign. But, as we have already said, they saw it to advantage. It was midsummer; and, as long as the ship remained in sight, the natives wore their summer faces, and appeared mild, and almost friendly. The voyagers arrived in health and vigor; and, in the excitement of strange circumstances, the perils and difficulties of their undertaking were materially disguised.