And now let its give ourselves to repose.

But why, when our eyelids are but just closed, do we find ourselves thus suddenly awakened?
What is the meaning of the noise around us, of the trampling of people's feet, of the rustling of the bow, the quiver, and the lance?
Let us rise up and inquire.

Behold! the inhabitants are all alarmed! a wakeful woman has shown them yon distant column of smoke and blaze.

The neighbouring village is on fire: the prince, unfaithful to the sacred duty of the protection of his subjects, has surrounded them.

He is now burning their habitations, and seizing, as saleable booty, the fugitives from the flames.
Such then are some of the scenes that have been passing in Africa, in consequence, of the existence of the Slave Trade; or such is the nature of the evil, as it has shown itself in the first of the cases we have noticed.