Perhaps I ought to speak tenderly of the consequences of a learned zeal, but it was entirely owing to this indiscretion that the whole party fell into the hands of certain mariners who were sealing on the northern shores of this very island, (friends and neighbors, as it afterwards appeared, of Captain Poke), who remorselessly seized upon the travellers, and sold them to a homeward-bound India-man, which they afterwards fell in with near the island of St.Helena--St.Helena! the tomb of him who is a model to all posterity, for the moderation of his desires, the simplicity of his character, a deep veneration for truth, profound reverence for justice, unwavering faith, and a clear appreciation of all the nobler virtues.
We came in sight of the island in question, just as Dr.Reasono concluded his interesting narrative; and, turning to Captain Poke, I solemnly asked that discerning and shrewd seaman,-- "If he did not think the future would fully avenge itself of the past--if history would not do ample justice to the mighty dead--if certain names would not be consigned to everlasting infamy for chaining a hero to a rock; and whether HIS country, the land of freemen, would ever have disgraced itself, by such an act of barbarism and vengeance ?" The captain heard me very calmly; then deliberately helping himself to some tobacco, he replied,-- "Harkee, Sir John.

At Stunin'tun, when we catch a ferocious critter', we always put it in a cage.

I'm no great mathematician, as I've often told you; if my dog bites me once, I kick him--twice, I beat him--thrice, I chain him." Alas! there are minds so unfortunately constituted, that they have no sympathies with the sublime.

All their tendencies are direct and common-sense like.

To such men, Napoleon appears little better than one who lived among his fellows more in the character of a tiger than in that of a man.