Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-11-23

ing drawings Of several of the fishes
We got six or eight crabs, (the body of
four of which was about as large as a
half dollar, and the others smaller which
were exceedingly beautiful and various in
their colors. In piece of porous wood,
notexceeding four inches square, we found
perhaps fifty different insects, al, Of
course, new and curious to us. What an
opulence of divine power and skill, is
seen in this endless variety Of animated
beings! All perfect in their kind-all
happy in their way-all fulfilling some
object for which they were made. "O1
that men would praise the Lord for his
goodness and his wonderful works"
Monday, Feb /. Have been beating
about several days, looking for a pilot
At our concert Of prayer this evening, it.
was an affecting consideration that on all
This coast, from Cuttack to Calcutta, not
solitary evangelist holds forth the word of
life. Commercial Zeal maintains, at great
expense, buoys, lighthouses, telegraphs,
and pilots, lest property should be lost on
these numerous shoals; but Christian
zeal has not lit up the torch Of truth, to
save the thousands ofthese people from the
loss Of the soul! O Zion! thy wealth
cankers. Thy worldIiness, in expendi-
ture, in fashions, and in pursuits, oppres-
ses thy graces, destroys thy power, and
leaves whole nations unbIest with thy
light! 0, for some such devotedness as
men of earth exhibit in the ways ofpleas-
ure and of gain! o that the millions of
money annually wasted by protested
Christians in the United States, were ex-
pended, not in injury to the church, but
in elevating from barbarism, misery, and
death, the untaug ht millions of heather!
3. Yesterday, about o'clock, A. M.
we got pilot, and are now getting slow
Iy up the Hoogly, hoping to find at Ked
gree, about 60 miles up, some conveyance
for our friends who are going to Calcutta
The boat which brought on board the pi-
lot, was manned with nine lascars. My
heart melted at this first sight of idolaters.
Compassion and awe have been seldom
more strongly excited. Looking round
on the others, who stood looking over the
ships side, found my eyes were not the
on y fountains of tears To-day we have
seen many more natives, who came off to
US in their boats. Most ofthem have on
ly white cotton cloth, two or three yards
long, wrapped round their loins; some
! have the cloth long enough to cover the
shoulders, or another one forthat purpose
and very few wear turbans of the same
materiaI-none have any defence to the
feet Their complexion is not much diff
ferent from that of coIored people in our
northern states, who have not generally
the Jet color of Africans-some of the
younger ones were not so dark, and had
more OF the red tint Of the American A bo-
regimes. Their stature is small, limbs
well prorortioned, countenances inteIIi-
gent-nose aqualine-teeth very white
hair black and inclined to curl A fish
ng-boat attached itself to our stern as we
lay at anchor, and remained during the
whole ebb tide, in company with another
which had come to offer aid in working
the ship. 1t was interesting to observe
the extreme nicely with which they pre-
pared their rice and fish, and the great
amount they devoured. The customary
meal is about two pounds of rice Las
cars, and other natives in Government en-
ploy, are allowed six pounds of rice per
day 1t is to be considered, however,
that they eat little else. The mess was
equally divided, and amounted to abou.
pints to each man. They ate with the fin
fers, or rather with the hand pressing
together as much as they could well
grasp; and examining as much of it as
they could hold into the mouth, let the re-
mainder fall back into the dish again -
then picking up small morseI ofthe fish.
1t was an ocular proof of the propriety of
the eastern custom Of washing before
meat, custom which mere American
reader might regard as founded only in
superstition. Afer dinner and smoking,
they lay down 10 sleep. Untying the girdIe,
they made it answer as sheet, and the
tare deck formed their couch. Though
we find it warm in the middle Of the day,
thermometer in the shade 70 deg,) they
all complained of the cold, and laid them
selves IN the full blaze Of the sun.
The boats are similar to ours, but point
ed at each end, and heavier, and decked
over so that the rowers sit fiat on the floor,
or on very low stool, having the oar
fastened at the top of two small sticks,
about two feet long, set up like the letter
A: Most of the oars were bamboo rods,
with fiat piece, about Is inches long,
at the end. They are short, and the
rowers sit in pairs, side by side, while the
boat Is steered by an oar in the stern,
a. Parted with our friends, who went
on board steamboat for Calcutta.
5. Went ashore, and after visiting Mr..
Rosseau, telegraph officer at this station,
strol:ed through the bazar. 1t was mar
ket day, and we found rice, grain. sugar,
milk, eggs, fowls, cocoa-nut and mustard
seed Oil. mats ORANGES pnaYaS bananas