New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-21


tsnanes fell, his eyss cloadssl, and iss spoke in
half -stified words. He described his pelses-
hut; his arms, his hunting spear. his canoe;
his return to his hnt, wish the fFuits ef tina
chase; the graceful, dalicate person Of his
wife; her c1inging fondness on his entrance;
his tenderness fer her, and for his children-S
for she bore to hing arson and adaughter. snd,
while he spoke, he burst into tearss and sobbed
Like q child. 1s 81 .se8as nsSgM
8ttsI was then beloved said he, & honoredi---
master of ell around me Now, I an nothing;
no llorne--no wifs--no friend / am an oatcaat
here when theFei Oh, Berea! wilt thau have
forgotten me sn aa8sSia sssR
His tears, and wild agoniess prevented him
from proceeding; and my eyes eouid notsfe-
main dry, when seeing such genuine grief, such
real suffering &5a b5i I ssgfs5ss SslsSs
But the cause Of his being separated from his
South Sea horne, and his beloved Berea and
her babes, remains TO be told. Ii appears that,
about three years before the peFiodI met him,
a Russian ship, sent on a voyage Of diseoveries,
touched ct the island where I,acncs had become
Enaturalized The captain was received with
royal hospitality by the king !; and the Prince
tLaonce became the glad interpreter between
the Europeans and his august father-in- -law--
for the captain spoke French. And, besides
procuring the crew all they wanted for common
comforts, the youngschief loaded the cemman-
der and his officers with useful presents. One
/ night it blew violent gale, and the Russian
Icaptain, deemine it impossible to keep his an
chorage in bay go full Of unseen dangers, made
signals to the land, in hopes Of exciting some
native experienced in the navigation, to come
4 off, and direct him how to steer. Every moment
Il increased his jeopardy; the storm augmented;
and, at each growing blast, he expected to be
torn from his cables, and dashed str- atoms
against the rocks. No one moved from the shore.
Again the signals were repeated: Laonce had
A risen from his bed ON hearing the -hrBt Tho
81 Ia Il
his British comrade, who would have known
how to move a ship through these boiling waves
The light canoe, and q vessel of heavy burthen,
were different objects. His comrade was then
watching by the side Of an almost dying wife,
I who had just made him the father of bis first
born SON Could Laonce summon him from that
spot of his hearts tendeTes duties, to attend to
. the roaring guns of distress from stranger
, vessel Impossible! He rose and looked out
! on the night He listened to the second signal,
he wrung his hands, and. signing, was return
| ing to his couch again. His wife had thanrisen
lalso. She clasped her arms round him, and
big tear stood in both her eyes. 90 You tell mes'
!, said she, g that your people DO net make
! those thunders TO heaven and to earth until
| they are drowning. You know you can sass
! | them ALL Go, Lao she smiled g 60 !;
and the foreign chief, after you have saved him,
: will give you some thing for rne-either 9 look
ing-eiass or silk handkerchief. 90, Lao.nas
. 1 and, almost ashamed that the father and the
/ husband in his heart should make him calculate
n between his own life and that of the gallant
% crew, he told her that the tempest ragged TOO
i tremendously for him to dare stennming it. But
lie she laughingly repulsed hiscaresses, accusing
ID his fondness for her as the induoement Of his
K assumed apprehensions; and being too long
D. accustomed to the rashness of her own people in
II braving every weather, to believe any plea oi
,e positive danger, she still persisted saying sht
le must have asilk handkerchief that might from
1t yon ship or she should think he loved his sound
it sleep better than he did his fond Berea.
i'll The enthusiastic love which still warmed the
,e faithful husbands breast, and third signal Of
e distress from the struggling vessel mastered his
/ better Judgment, and, SEWING ehs canoe, sht
1t dashed into the foaming waves and boldly
,e stemmed their fury the object Of his mission
lie The overjoyed crew. as they heard his yolei
ir hailing them through the storm, cast out rope
d. by which they hoisted him into their cracking
I'd ship The most rapturous aoknoWledg enti
inal from the captain greeted him as soon as hi
TX Jumped on tho deck; the eager seaInen calico
he him their deliverer He was happy, he said, b,
g. Twas happy in the achievement Of what he hat
4 jhad done he had oheyed the wish of his be
st loved Berea, and he had survived the lashinl
d. surge. He was happy in the confidence that h'
I'M should rescue the gallant vessel he came to tax
u under his control st
"a Butitha hour of happiness was hislasts E
yej took the helm in hishands he gave the requist
nd ldirections to the seamen in the management
an the ship and he soon steered her out Of the dan
ler gers of the bay, till she rode in safety on I'd
ng main ocean He then asked for q boat to carr
d. him on shore, for his canoe had been erashe
! sv an accident. But the wind still BLOWN
4lf 20. they would not venture the loss
Ill., ~nd. during the hot conteI
a Ibynrr; V -gysls3 a sa 94 III a-esi chief Of ii
4 one Of thai. Z 3ill a8ls Ea3sa9s sigaaisr=
: tions ho+.ol'., oys.1s, s7.sr .a Fl s5s5 ,Gl ri
i .naas, s.ons oetween him and the unca,
ont to e ssa naI preserved, they were
plunged into .Sa as swimming arm, had ha
ueem q no use to him. Ind;anap ooald haYe
,eswneimed 1t him. None oespair
e4nu .he nature Of his feelings. an 9 UNDER
Moauef that European born sba!.5 ,a pL5stenaing
eway fros ~ any occasion that would Co.,. aoSoe
Eaonce ran, sage country like that n ysi,, AN
wife and ob;idrass ], N vain he talked Of his
laughed, prom;sad me ne captain and his sailors
thain nus Kindred whites and when 'psn ps sorts
lanabas uenea hearts and oruel treacherS iber
4, and left him to his misery H. a
sidas ct, when the protraeted hurric ne s,,taf
80, ana the vessels log-bo proved that she
aa ueen arisen several degrees leeward of the
h5oo,ety Isles, abandoned to d sullenz despair.
~ ceased 10 ACCUSE or to reproach he ceased
syeh 70 speak on any subject, but cast himseife
lnto nus lonely berth during the day that hes
might not be irritated to continue una vail;nos,
madness BY the sight of the ingrates Who haS
betrayed him. At night, indeed, be seated him
seH solitary on the deck. when the watch alone
was there; and, still wordless to that only com
panion, discoursed with sighs and streaming
tears to the starry sign which hung over the
part OF the heavens which canopied his igwam Y
nome 10 his straining eyes, nothing but tic
slvery line Of the star lit sea was ON that dis
tant horizon; but his hearts vision pierced far. !
ther. and he beheld the sleepers in that home;
no, not the sleepersi His disconsolate, his de-
spairing wife, tearing her bright locks, ana
beating the tender bosom he must no longer
clasp to, his own. His chiIdren-eDhl my
babes !" seied he, and the cry of q father'sE
heart for once pierced the -obdurate hosemz of
the captain, who, at that moment, had happened
to come upon the deck to examine the night. sasia
He said few words Of rude comfort, mixed
with his usual raillery; Wanting himself as d
reckless bachelor, who might range the world IL
without such clogs to his enterprise and prome-
ztion as wives and children; and, to ease his
0taheitan benefaotor of the toto, be declape RE-
had thes carried him off to share inathe honor
Of his expected discoveries The unhappy chi d,
ih then answering him, begged that il he had,
indeed, any spark Of honesty towards him, he
would prove it by ubsynp his wish III one tbinr