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IMit• kt the opproacb of rain the macaws sent
*it ftightfel crier, the lilies& wattled to gain the
gliativi:l6sh, sod the little utookeys,,tbe title. went
of-iNther Zee, lo take shelievin 'the liege
adecvaaor his Fraociscao habit. These.acenes Aare
Oftmamated; sod. made us forget"the torment of
, Ilheupsairbifcom." .
• .01tavy tribes of lodiana being in the constant
• fikwi
of transit haunt° fl,sh. M. Ifernboldt deco
mow to entertain the smallest' doubt ; and,
' 4 if ' would be folly to disbelieve what the
ssiaaaviea, -though .unwillingly, admit, and Ike
lite
hlitlhOtiellhheivre boast of. Cocuy, a celebrated
WNW. mit chief of the, Manitivitatioiss, used to
4t7iltille.llllo finest_ and (aunt of his Wiles, ao
toillkagioaf kpicariam which acatidslised fro 'little
tlut "oath y missiosurtries, who converted him to
*laidlekily ; though,: without working; that change
b11111•10110etite which they did in his:helief. "It is
a Ileilialoil," says failler -Gilt, of these people of
Gayest*, id other reeOets so geodead so mild."
" ' You cannot iihagiite,' said the old missionary
of lklhattaveco, • all the perversity of this/anti/la de
Indies. • You receive Men of a new tribe iorr, the
• village ; they appear to be mild, good, and lobo.
rious ; but suffer them to take'partin en instusiou
ferstradal to bring in. the oatives, mud you eau
scarcely prevent them front murdering all they
reset, and hiding some portions of the dead bodies.'
In hinting ou the manners of these Indiana, we
urealmost terrified at that combination of sentiments,
" which teem mutually to exclode each other ; that
faculty of uotions to become bet partially humanis-
ed ; that preponderance of customs, prejudices, and
traditimie, over the natural reflection. of the heart.
We bad a fugitive Indian from the Guaisia in our
canoe, who had become sufficiently civilized, in
a few weeks, .to be useful to us in placing
the instruments necessary for our observations at
algid.- He was no less wild thou intelligent, end
we4asd some 'desire of taking hint into our service.
Whet was our regret when, talking to him by torsos
. of an interpreter, we learned,' that the flesh of the
tallirirtionde monkeys, though blacker, appeared to
niti to bare the taste of human flesh.' He told us
• that his relations (that is, the people cf his tribe)
preferred the inside of the hands in man, as in
h•ars.' This insertion was accompanied by gestures
of savage jay. Wr inquired of this young man, au
calm and to affectionate in the little Perrier, which
he render'ed us, whether he still felt sometimes a
desire to eat of a Cheruvichehens. He answered
tvitboot discumptoure, that, living in the micron,
lie would only eat what lip saw was eaten by los Po.
deer. Reef wadies addr. as dto the natives on the
ehemtesthle practice, %hall we here discuss, plc,-
(Wired tio effrct ; it is *oil a Bratuai of the Ginger,
trtivielhag in Eialope, repioiche.l us with our habit
..1 fry Lltag on the flesh of animal.. In the eyes of
tile iodise of the t: usisis, the Cheruvicluthessa was
a brims esoirely different from hine•elf ; and whom,
i.e tissight it was i.e more unjust to kill thou the
yagssais of the forest. It was merely from a sense
of,propriety, that, as long us he should remain. in
the oleet4ou, he would only eat the saute food as los
Parrs. Tor swims, if they return to their tribe
(n/ wank i , sir hod themselves itemised by hunger,
•ocrei resume their *veleta habits of anthropuphagy.
And why should we be so much astonished at this
inconsisteacy iii the tribes or 'the Oruonoko, when
we are isetotoiled, by terrible and well-ascertained '
.aatoples, of what has passed among civilized no.
coos is times of great tcarcity F In Egypt, int
the tharierctle cratlify. the habit of eating.huurso
Weak iltrinderd all classrs of society ; extraotdmary
- aware were spread fur physicians id particular.
They were Called to attend p, owns, who pretended
tore rick, hot who were slily hungry ; and it "il
mkt la eider to be INaissultel, but devoured. An
Nisi/mon ;4* great veracity, AU-MI.1;1, has related
how a practice, which at tint umpired dierd and
horror. vein occasioned not the least surprise."
Non to the contemplation of this feast of the
arithropophiegt, we recommend the following fur is
r.iintehnty, to the iuriagination of our rem:Mi. to
oink .peps with what eppritte 111,y may.
•• The but, where the natives were assembled.
thsirlayed during several days a very solider
sorrel. Theve was neither table 100 C bench, but
large roasted tnookeys, blackened by smoke, were
ranged its order resting 'goom the wall. Theme
:sere the inarintondes (dirk* belzebuth), and those
7wartied vuoulteys celled cepechies, which must not
ieetwifutiuded with the weeper, or sal (snots copu-
tins of Bution.) The moaner of vosstiug these
er..iitropomorptorus animal, contribute singniarly to
render their appearance clisaereable in the eyes of
civilized wan. A little grating, or lattice. of very
hard wood, is formeel, mod raised use foul from the
Armand. The monkey is skinned, and boat into it
sitting pnsture ; the head generally resting on the
arms. which are meagre awl twig ; but bOillellllles
three are crossed behind the beck. When it is tied
on
time grating a very 'deer 6re is ktudled below.
The monkey, eitvelOped in smoke and dame, is
broiled end blackentd at the same time. On
seeing the siattrte devour the stiller leg of a roasted
insokey, it is erilficult not to believe, that this
rte iint of eating animals, that so much . resemble
roam to their playsie al orgaulzatiuti, has, in a eel tail&
arivre. comoribulad to iihialLials the horror of
ostliropopleugy aisivesig savages. 'toasted turnkeys.
itatticularly those that have a very pound heed, do-
Way' a hideout resensblante to a child ; the
Coro/reams. th,refore, who we obliged to feed on
onid!utuat.eo. prefer separating the brad and the
tared., .4.,,l aer..e up sally the rest of the anima) at
their taliks. Th.- Best' of monkey-6 is so lean and
slay, &at Mr. Batyphastl has pieserved iu his cul-
ls-elm:set Pavia au also and hand, which had been
broiled *ref the five at Esmeralda ; sod am smell
art•es Ist* thew after a great number of years."
14:11dat we are ens the subject of taste, which is
aileored to he mere !wavier of opinions, nut yr 4is-
pine, we will make oseotiort of another diet. list
etc/icily either animal or veget•ble, but which we
*oppose may conibene the II scour, of both ti theme
• who indulge is It. We speak of the oianiac., a
I iihe an the gy_ticit stair, who Inhabit the lacture.que
. Yhle•iQis Or: Unities, and who preersit ON of the
• went estelettidiurry um
as eevie. I.
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Nal►C/STLE AssizaS.

•Clllll. SIDE.
Befits Mr. Justice BATLEY asif a Spruill! Jury.

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leeenAll e 01.4,11 AN, aides, £V tdt•iton.
TAM settee was cumineoced by the Plaintiff, whit bad fur-
weerlylees.s Lieetenant in the army, but now resided I.
Ne against she Defendants, as part of the Newcastle
Ginicompany, to recover damages for the injury sustained
by his wife by the explosion of some gas, by which the bones
Of Mr. Joie Mater',ln 'Forth-street, wk's blown up, and Mre.
(*beam, In addition tothe lose of her child, which was kill-
ed, anslaiamieetiosis bodily Misr,.
)k. 81100111111Witated'the case to the Jury is a very tin•
emotive speech. The Defendants bad bees selected as parties
to this 'ethos, betas*, they were the individuals must ae-
lively engaged in the minagemeot of the Gas Company's
discerns. The gas work was Onduetatedly one of great &a-
`m, one in which there was a natural probability of mis-
chief, audit therefore behoved the proprietors of !hoot works
to Me a more then ordinary degree of diligence to pre-
• vent danger from bappenia_g. If it hod not been from the
moot gross begligewle on their parts, the fatal and almost
all bet fatal accidedt which wield be detailed to them I.
evidence mould not have arisen. When persons andertook
to tottery Maenad& gas from reservoirs, whon from the
mposter• of tlMmebetatite conveyed these wan a coestaat
thence if some sash fatal aecideui as the present happening,
it behoved the pupa/tors to be possessed of the means of
preventing accidents, which were at all times but too likely
to °czar. The Leeinedffooneel them mated the particulars
of the accident. The present action was eommeuevd by the
Plaintiff to seek dimwits fot the Mjseies Seetsined by his.
wife, fur the agony auitufferlags she had endergose, and
fur se disabled mate its which she now was, and likely to
continue, in consevrente rif that sccideet. It alight be
said by his Lesrned Friend (Ale. Starlets) • that the pipes
used by the Gas Consosim were of the .same sort general'',
used, and brittle cast irue; but lie (Vr. B.) would any, that
they were not bound to ere briUle cast iron; used if he could
skew that ordinary and proper care bad sot been taken to
present the accident, he would be eutitled to .4 sordid
El s Learned Friend might tektite Joey Hoene was only slight
negligence, and therefore ought loins only small damages;
bet he entreated the Jury not to levied away by the loge
amity of kis Learned Friend, fur if theft was enough to give
a farthing damages, if the ntiotiff was rotated to
at all, he reasrehtled to recover is proportion to the injury
he had sustained. He left his case in the hat+ of the Jury
wish confidence; be ;eft it to them to state what reparation
cculd be liven in this ease—a ease is which au compose-
lion could compensate—for Ilse deep and irreparable iularics
susisisied by the Plaintiff

The learned Cuuusrl then tailed Mr John Slater, and}
other witnesses, who stated the isarticulare of the as:velem
in Forth street, by which Mrs. Deboasee child was killed,
and she bad susiaioed her injuries. Mr. Slater said, that ois
the morning of the day of the aceidest, ►e felt the smell of
gas in his house, sod as it became swore offensive in t►e
afternoon, at half•past three o'clock be went to the gas ma-
nufactory, and told the wife of Hie foreman of the cis cum-
stance, and stited his opiuiou that something was wrong iu
the pipe. ravels ran opposite to ►i. house at the distance of
'bow three het, sod was laid at about sixteen or eighteen
'oche, bearish the sorfsce of the ea. eh. She said she would
send some men immediately to see what was the matter. He
reiurtted bowie abort seen o'clock. At , eight o'clock,
when Mrs. Deboatis and her husband, aid wi.orps Rod his
wife, ware *klieg to a room im his house, the explosion of
the gas sunk place, and the house was Wows up nee into
ruins. Mr. Slater said he had Lao compeasated fur his
loss by the. Gas Company.
In answer to a question from the Judge, Mr. Sl;ter said
it was the pipe in front of his house wkieb was broke, sad
from which the explosion came._

Rob, t Slater, a'buy., the nephew of the last witness, said
that tao 'wen came front the pa house at See o'clock. When
they came they said there was a very bad smell. Witness told
Ito in it certainly must be a pipe broken, and they had better
break the ground op sad see, but they said the posed was
very hard sod they wisald come is the rostraiag.
Mr. Wm.. Cooper did not see any body name to dig for the
/lyre sin the night of the explosion.
Mr. E. Sautes' the surgeon called in to Wend Mrs. Deb.
math at he ownhorsae, where she bad Item removed, on the
MAW of Ilse explosion, Futind her in a most deplorable coo.
dawn. Out of her arms was fractured, her left male dist..
rated,• her right ankle ouch sprained, and one of the small
Wiwi- cum pusiug the wilst of the foot dislodged from its
situation. Her luck, shouldeis, and back, were most se.
verely contused. These harts might have Imea emoted by
soasetl.ing having fallen upon her, or from the trioleark
wish which she bad bee, !heroin from ono side of the
room to the other. lle had continued to attend her up tit
the present time. Slit continued a los% time ill, and was
not yet well. It was dudhitafshe ever world be well. She
may he about 411 years 'Drage. The arm has knit. Had
made a charge of NI. to Mre D 1 boom. which was perfectly
reasonable.

The Counsel for the defence admitted that (It accident
bad been caused by the explosion of the gas.
This was the Plaintiff's eat!.
Mr. Sicant.trr addressed the Juty for the Defendants. His
clients felt ma much compassion for the sufferings of Mrs.
l)rbnam as any person, mid if the 'locales had remained
merely oue of hummed', they would have done every thing
to have relieved Mr. and Mrs. Debases Crolll the calamity
they had suataiued, but the sautneut the question assumed a
legal character they thought it their duty to meet the ease on
its own merits, and to try it on its merits only, sod if the
Jury found they had been guilty •f any **entente Obey
would give a propurtionate comprusation. He entreated
them out to let their verdict he infincticed by any feeling hut
that of justice. These was no elf sneut of an by which the
condition of man was to be improved which was not liable to
accident, and be could not think the Newcastle Gas Com-
pany were Woad to suy greater ersponsibility than persons
cooductiog similar i•vesettiens. That they were bound to
take every caution and precaution to p t accidents be
fully admitted, and utiless he satisfied the Jury that that was
dune on the preseut occasion, be did nut stated there for
their verdict. l'irriumt to the application of Slater to the
wife of the towline at the gas-house, the gas pipes had been
charged for the purpose of lightiug the lowa, and after the
pipes were charged, the difficulty of perverting accidents was
teem. Before any thing could have been dime to petered
this accident, It would love been accessary to 'top the cost;
neouteation between the gasometers sod both aides of the
pipe from which the explumits tusk place. He would prove
to them that the leugth of that operation ovoid have been
five homes—
Mr. Justice BATLEY—" Was it itof gross *Permite not
to hive the apparatus Mt welt a state as to withdraw the
supply of gas is a moment 1"
Mr. SCLitLETT continued—So that if persons bad bee.
sent to the spot immediately after Skier's appllestient, the
calamity could not Isle been prevented. The declaration
cba.ged she Defesdause with tuns( insuellelest pipes. He
would prove that the Opts were autilicieot, by scientific men.
He ilicrefuck submitted that a charge of peel ignite could nut
br !maintained against his cli,rits fur nut doing that Which
*would have hero unsuitable,. It bad been said that the
pipes were laid "ply at lb or 18 inches from the oversee of
the earth. He would prove that they were laid at two feet
thief- inches, and that tb. y wire constituted of as great •
pertains of iron, and that the joints were more expessi•e,
ibis any in she kingdoms. He would prove that the pipes
were the moat amiable for the purpose. If, idler lbe *vi-
ewer hr shool4 ley before them, they should think it bad
bee* is the 4rineer of those emererard In she ps works to
prevent wildest, they wipuld be liable to resposaibility
but email slum it was Impossible, from the frozen state
resod at that lino that the me* could met dig fur
*pips. they !saki discover

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