Here our conversation was interrupted by the, to us, dismal sound of the clock striking seven, and we were summoned off to bed.

The next day we added many others to our list of men, till we got almost all the chief men of the kingdom.

After this, for a long time, nothing worth noticing occurred.

In June, 1828, we erected a school on a fictitious island, which was to contain 1,000 children.

The manner of the building was as follows.