Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-03-12

dren and all the usual cottage train, Sc
nerally gamboling about. SO that whist a
man fancies himself in some lonely anu
sequsstered retreat, he is, in tac', IN
the middle of a Populous but invisible
village.
Nature has been bountifui in all her
eifts to Lewchew for such is the iehcI-
ty of its soil and climate, that produce
lions of the vegetable kingdom, very
distinct in their nature and generally
found in regions Tar distant IRON each o,
ther, grow here side by side 1t is not
merely as might be expected, the country
of the orange and the lime, but The ban-
van of India and the Norwegian m, the
tea plant and sugar cane. all flourish TO-
sether. In addition to many good qunlI-
ties, not often found combined, this Is
land also can boast of its rivers and Sc
cure harbors-and last, though not least,
a worthy, friendly, and hapPy race
Of people. -,
They all seemed to be gifted with a
sort of politeness which bad the tairest
claim to be termed natural for there
was nothing constrained, nothing Stitf or
studied in it.
Captain Maxwell having one day in'i-
ted party to dine with him. the health
Of the king of Lewchew was drank in
a bumper :-sne of them Immediately
addressing himself with warn tn and feel
ing, to the Interpreter, desired him to
state how much they felt grati6ed BY such
a compliment that they would take care
to tell it to every body when they went
on sbore-and proposed at the same
time a bumper to the King Of the Eng
does
On our arrival at Lewchew, our cases
of sickness though aot numerous, We
severe, and to the kindness of the ma
tives may, in a g eat measure, be attribu-
ted their recovery. They were not on
Nv comfortably lodged. bit the higher
class of people daily attended lnquiring
into their wants, giving additional COO
gas or eggs, and other delicacies, to those
whose casas NOE particularly required
them. and paying cheering attention to
the whole tor theirs was substantial,
not a cold or ostentat Gus chafity.
A young man whose case had long
been hopeless, died here. On that night
a Tin was made our own carpenters
whilst e native, dug a grave in the En-
g|ish manner, IA mail burial ground uu
der s"ue trees near the landing place
Next morning we wee astenished to
6nd numbeI of the principal inhabi.
tants clad IN deep mourning (white robes
with OIaGk or blue ,ashes) waiting 10
attend The funeral. The captain came
on shore with the division OF the ships
company to which the man belonged. and
prOce ded to the garden where the body
lay Hi, messmates onre the coffin, CO.
vered Nth the colors-the seamep rang
ed themselves two and two in the rear oi
il; next we're the mid,hipmen then the
superior officers, and last If all the cap
tam, as is usual in military ceremonies OF
this kind. The natives, who had been
waiting attentively this arransement.an and
observing the order Of precedence to be
inverted, without the least hint being gi-
ven, but with that unassumips modesty
and delic.cy, which characterize them,
when the procession began TO move, pla-
ced themselves in front Of the cOfhn-and
IN this order marched slowly to the grave.
The utmost decency and silence pre-
vailed whist the funeral service vas pei
inning by the chaplain although there
was a considerable. concourse Of people;
and afterwards they marched back, but
IL different order to the garden. Here
they took the directions for the shape OF
stone to be placed at the head of a
tsmb, With, IS mark Of respect, they
had already begun 20 erect over the
gave. This was soon finished and the
shape ot English letters being drawn with
Indian ink, they, notwithstanding the
simplicity of their tools. cut ou:. with
much neatness, the following epltaPR,
which when exp aimed to them seemed
to be h ghiy gratifying -" Here lies bu-
ried, aged twehty one years, William
Hares, seaman, Of His B itsnnic MaJes-
tvs ship Alceste, died Oct. Is. 1876
This monument vas erected BY the kirg
and inhabitants OF this hospitable island.
The day alter the interment, they wet
to the tomb, with their priests, and per
,ormed the funeral service according To
the rites of their own religion There is
not an act of those excellent and inte-
resting people which the mind has not
pleasure IN contemplating and crediting
Not satisfied with having .moothed the
psth Of death, they carried their kind re
CARDS even beyond tie G ave"
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