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The City of the Saints, and Aerate the Rooky
Mountains to California. By AICHaRD F.
Burron, Author of " A Pilgrimage to El Me-
climb and Mecca. ' Loudon : Longman, Green,
Longman and Roberts.
Uaptainßurton, or Mr. Consul Burton, as we
presume he should now be called, affords a parallel
to that distinguished scholar who relieved his
graver studies and amused his leisure hours by
deciphering Challis manuscripts. With his health
much injured by his trying exploration of the un-
healthy Lake Rens of Eastern Africa, he betook
himself to the hardships of a journey across the
Prairie and the Rocky Mountains as affording the
best medicine for his hardy constitution ; wearied
by his troubles with Wajiji and Wanyamanai he
found relief in listening to the war whoop of the
Dacotah ; and sick of the absurd treatment which
he has received at the East India Office, he has
now betaken himself, without permission from the
military authorities, to the pleasant position of
Consul at Fernando Po, in the extremely healthy
Bight of Biafra, from whence he will no
doubt soon send us some reliable accounts
of the Gorilla, and from whence he may
penetrate to the half-fabulous mountains of the
Moon, if only he receive from the more enlightened
Foreign-office that latitude and encouragement
white have beau to him elsewhere denied, and
width he his • riglst to expect, as, perhaps. the
greatest, and out of sight the most accomplished of
all Being trivellers. We confess to some feeling of
regret that his extraordinary capacities have not
been made available in services more directly bear-
ing on the interests of the nation. When the plots
were forming which led to the awful scenes of the
Indian Mutiny the wilds of Africa were hardly the
place for the man who, to the sunanement of
Moonshis and the disgust of military fogies,
had pawed in six languages two years after his
arrival in India, who bad penetrated the
mysterious depth of the Indian character„and
disguised as an Eastern, had disowned
points of Mohammedan theology within the sa-
cred precincts of the city of Mecca. Neither are we
satisfied that his singular power of imagination,
which might set up a dozes ordinary parte, has
found its most fitting exercise in reproducing,
vividly as he has done, some aspect of the desert
dawn or some shaggy headed liomal ; but, as he
says of himself, tie ate nature fait, and the nature
of the present age scarcely allows of its employing
any Individuality at once very powerful and pe-
culiar.

Though inferior to some of his other works, this
" City of the Sainte" is likely to be more popular.
The subject is one of very considerable interest at
remelt, and sufficient Is already known about it
by the reading public to make them welcome a
writer upon it who saves them both from the
tedium of repetition, and the effort of entering upon
an entirely new subject. This volume:is not so re-
markable in particular passages as some others be
has published ; but is always wry lively, and em-
bellished with his usual amber of apt and
striking phrsaes from the languages of the Bast as
well as from those of Europe. He shows great tact
in catching and briefly expressing the prominent
points of any scene or character. Its chief
fault is that it presents him more than his
usual fancy for viewing matters in their
ludicrous and absurd aspects, "from which nothing
sublunary is wholly exempt ;" but notwithstand-
ing this style, which he affects and carries to ex
it will be found that his remarks are charseterised
by good sound sense, and sometimes by profound
thought. It has the advantage over the valuable
" Journey to Salt Lake City ' of M. Jules Remy,
that it depicts the Mormon Zion as it existed five
yeare later than it was seen by that gentleman, a
"which in the far West is equal to fifty in
Irconservative lands," and that it proceeds from
ceteavaller who has "'irefully and intelligently ex-
=Deed many nations, forms of government, and
social arrangements, both in the East and West.
From the accounts here before us it appears that
the dangers from Indians about the Rocky Moun-
tains and the atrocities committed by them have
been greatly exaggerated, "from the political De-
cimally for another 'lndian botheration." One of
the agents on the route " owned to three murder ."
and though it is hinted that this may have be;a
delusion, the white Gentiles of these regions are
represented as more dsagreeable characters than
either the Indians or the Mormons. The journey
to Salt Lake City from St. Joseph is made " in •
Concord coach, a spring waggon, comparing advan-
tageously with the horrible vans which once dish
cated the joints of men on the Sues route." The
information given about the Indians is so pitch-
forked together that it is impossible to tell how
much of it is drawn from the traveller's own ex-
perience and what from more dubious seeress. He
utterly denies the assertion that "he who has
seen • single Indian has seen them all," but holds
them, as there are many reasons for doing, to be
of the Turanian race. A novel, and far
from pleasant description of scalping is
given ; and Captain Burton cannot fail
to have his juke even on that subject,
so he recommend' • dried scalp, with the lock
turned outwards and rimmed with silver, as making
a very pretty brooch—a present surely to be made
only to the very fastest style of young ladies.
"Nothing," be says, "can be worse than the
modern management of the Indian bureau at Wash-
ington." It was much better in former times,
when the agents were in the bands of the military
authorities, and the officer commanding the de-
partment was responsible for malversation of officio.
A war party which be came across are described as
having lean, sore-backed nags, and as dressed in
dirty rags. "They were exceedingly unprepos-
sessing, with their small gipsy eyes, high
rugged cheek bones, broad flat fame, coarse sensual
mouths, everted as to the lips, and long heavy chins.
They watched every gesture, and at times com-
municated their opinions to each other in undis-
tinguishable gruntiog", with curious attempts at
cachinnation.' Though their number is diminish-
ing in the Far West, that of the rattlesnakes ap-
pears to be bolding its ground pretty well, and the
traveller likely to come in contact with these latter
enemies will do well to consult the various remedies
for the bite enumerated by Captain Burton. " With
the lighted end of • cigar," he pleasantly says, " ap-
plied as a moss to toe wound, a veiniest atefficit
of ardent spirits, a couple of men to make me
walk about when drowsy by the application of
a stick, and, above all, with the serious reso-
lution not to do anything so mean as to
leap the twig, I should nut be afraid of any soaks
yet created.' This is milder treatment than that
proposed by Mansfield Yttrium, who recommends
the bitten party to cut out largely with his bowie,
and then to rub in well with his iron ramrod heated
to a white heat.

On the way from St. Louis Captain Burton en-
countered a Mormon train chiefly composed of
English ; and that element forms a very large por-
tion of the population of Utah. Their physical
characteristics, however, soon undergo &change. They
lose their roundness of form, and their heavy faces
are changed into countenances of a higher caste. An
interesting person be also met was Mr. Ephe Banks,
the leader of the Mormon " Dana° Band," other-
wise known as "Destroying Angels," "Devils,"
and "Daughters of Gideon." With his accustomed
cool nees,Captain Burton intimated to this formidable
character his indifference as to whether he was "a
Danite or a Damnite ;" and the two worthies im-
mediately fraternised. Like most persons of a
similar reputation, Ephe Hanks proved to be not
nearly so black a devil as he hsd been painted. At
the first si4ht of the Holy City the Mormon emigrants,
like the pilgrims to Mecca and Jerusalem, give vent
to their emotions by sobs and tears, laughter and
congratulations, psalms and hysteric,. ; and even our
BIWA though not given to veneration, admits that