Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-08-08
A Man Who Never Saw a Woman.

Ny 1Noocil OIuLoH, cHtltleu visits 10
Monasteries in the Leyant," contains the
following strange description of a man
who had never seen a woman
"He was a magnificent looking man,
of thirty-five years of age, with large
eyes and black hair and beard. As we
sat together in the evening, in the ancient
room, by the light of the dim brazen
lamp, with deep shadss thrown across his
face aud figure, | thought he would have
made an admirable study for Titan or
Sebastian del Piombo. In the course Of
conversation l found that he had learned
Italian from another monk, having me-
yer been out of the Peninsula of Mount
Athos. His parents, and most of the
inhabitants of the village where he was
born-somewhere in Roumelia; but its
name or position he did not know-and
had been massacred during some revolt
or disturbance. So he had been told,
but he remembered nothing about it. He
had been educated in this or one of the
other monasteries, and his whole life had
been passed on the Holy Mountain; and
this he said was the case with many 9th
er monks. He did not remember his
mother; ard did not seem quite sure that
he ever had one. He had never seen a
woman, nor had he any idea what sort
of things women were, or what they look
ed like. He asked me whether they
resembled the pictures of the Panagia.
the Holy Virgin, which hung in every
church. Now, those who are conversant
with the peculiar conventional represent
%tations of the blessed Virgin in the pic
lures of the Greek Church, which are all
exactly alike-sti9, hard and dry, with.
out any appearance of life or emotion
will agree with me that they do not afford
a very favorable idea of the grace or
beauty Of the fair sex, and that there was
a difference of appearance between black
woman, Circassians, and those Of other
nations, which was, however, difficult to
describe to one who had never seen a la
dy of any race. He listened with great
interest while l told him that all women
were mo- exactly like the pictures he had
seen; Ibid not think it charitable to carry
on the conversation farther, although the
poor monk seemed to have a strong in.
clination to know more of that interest.
ing race of beings from whose society he
had been so entirely debarred. / often
thought afterwards Of the singular lot of
this manly and noble-looking monk, whe-
Their he is still q recluse either in the
monastery or in his mountain farm, with
his little m%oss-grown chapel, as ancient
as the bays of Constantine; or whether
he has gone out into the world, and min
gled in its pleasures and its cares"
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and Enquirer says that there are on an
average fourteen streets added to the city
proper every year; and if the increase sase
continues in the same ratio, but q few
years will elapse before the whole island
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