The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-08-05


The following article, with the exception
of the heading, is copied literally from a
manuscript put into my hands in the Greek
nation-you are at liberty to make what use
of it you think proper.
NAL DU PAYS.
"Whatever vicissitudcs We experience in
life" says Goldsmith, however we toll, or
wheresoevcr we wander, our fatigued wishes
still rccur to home for tranquility"
The Nal du pays, or loss of health from
grief at being absent from ones native coun-
try and friends, is a disease confined to no
part of the world in particular, though the
swiss are said to be more subject TO it than
others.
.hbout forty years ago, says the author
OF the manuscript from which this was ia
ken, had the management of mercanti,
establishment, near the junction Of Coosl ai,d
lalapoosa rivers; and as mine was almost
the only white family in that part Of the
country, the few travellers that appeared
among US generally put ur with me.
Late in the fall Of 1860 a stranger Of an
extremely interesting appearance, and about
thirtyfive or forty wears of age, arrived a,
my house in i'll health. He had not been
long among US before it became evident that
his health was rapidly on the decline He
did not appear to labor under any particular
disease, but his pale face aud cmaciate,l
form, showed he was Fastening with rapd
strides, to that "bournc from whence no
traveller returns.'
he was native of the province of Cata-
lonia, in Spain, and emigrated to South A :
merica at the age of twenty-one. A ten
years residence in the New World put him
in possession of handsome fortune, and
completely satisfied that passion for atlven.
ture, which in the heydey of youth, made
him quit home much against the inclination
Of his friends. Intending now to revisit his
native country, he closed his business and
converted all his property into cash. An in
surrection however at this period broke out
1s Favor of which he was induced to take m
active part, step which led to the destruc-
ton Of his happiness, for in consequence Of
it he was obliged to give up all hopes of ever
seeing Kis native country again, AS ii large
reward was offered both in Spain and its CO.
lonies, for his apprehension.
He succeeded in making his escape tc
Charleston, South Carolina and had money
becnth chief object of his itlolatiy, he might
still have been happy, for he brought witt,
him enough to make the remember of hi.
days better provided for than the most san
suine expectations of his youth had taught
him to expect.
But life to him had now lost its salt ant
its savor,' for the attachments he had form
cd in early life were such THAT neither for
cign climes, nor absence had been able to OBJ
literate; and the idea that he was separate,
forever from the objects that had called then
forth rendered him the victim of incurabl
melancholy ever after.
The other consequences of the Nostalgi
soon followed.
In proportion as his health declined he be
came fond of solitude, and it was this pre-
pensity, together with the rcstlessncss pecu
liar to mind diseased, that induced him t
undertake the tour through the wilds of tn
Aborigines, which introduced him to my ac
qnaintancc.
He often took a melancholy pleasure i
describing the scenes and events of his carl
life. 'Thc recollection of my nativity, sal
lie one day, is as perfect in my memory now
as on the day left it, and though it is near
" twenty years. it seems as but YESTERDAY
When setting out on my travels, stoppe
on the top of hill, over which my road let
to look at it for the last time. As turne
to prosecute my journey, my heart SCENE
to die within nc. l had for the first time
my life parted from my friends; (iirst par
'ngs form hayl lesson to lslTnl AND It woul