The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-12-28

So be had the pain of failing to find hel
on his arrival
Even then the faithful creature did no
feel as if all was done. He with his
Indian companions followed the traces Of
the party till be came to the place where
the bodies of the perished adventures
lay, which were already SO decayed thai
he could not distinguish one from the 9th.
er. This pitiful sight led him to con,
clude that none of the company could
have escaped death. He returned to the
hut to take away some things of Madame
Godin's which were left there, and carri-
ed them not only back with him to An
doas, but from thence (another touching
proof of his fidelity to Omaguas, that he
might deposit the articles, some of which
were of considerable value, in the hands
of the unworthy Mr.. R., to be by him de-
/ livered to the father of his lamented mis-
/ tress.
And how did this unworthy Mr.. R.,
behave when he was apprized by the ne
| gro of the lamentable death of those
whom be had SO unscrupulously given o.
yer to destitution? Did he shudder at
! the magnitude and baseness of his crime?
0, no! Like a heartless knave he add
ed dishonesty to cruelty, took the things
into his keeping, and to secure himself in
the possession of them, sent the generous
| negro back to Quito. Joachim, for that
was the name of this honest and noble
black man, had unluckily set out on his
journey back, before Madame Godin ar
rived at Andoas Thus he was lost to
her, and her afiiction at the loss of such
tried friend showed that the greatness
of her past misfortunes had not made her
incapable of feeling new disappointments.
In Andoas she found Christian priest,
Spanish missionary, and the behaviour
of this uncbristian Christian contrasts
with the conduct Of her two Indian pre-
servers, as that ofthe treacherous r. with
that of the generous negro. For instance,
when Madame Godin was in embarrass-
ment how to show her gratitude to the
good Indians who had saved her life,
she rendered that she, according to the
custom of the country, wore around her
neck pair of gold chains, weighing about
four ounces. These were her whole re-
naming property, but she hesitated not
a moment, but took them off and gave
one to each of her benefactors. They
were delighted beyond measure at such
a gift, but the avaricious and dishonest
priest took them away from them, before
the face of the generous giver, and gave
them instead some yards of coarse cotton
cloth, which they call in that country Tux
ujo. And this man was one of those who
were sent to spread Christianity among
the heathenl and one from whom those
same Indians whom he had treated SO
dishonesty, would hear the lesson, "Thou
shall not co7et thy neighbor's goods.
Such instances ought to be recorded,
sadly as they make US Christians blush,
were it only to teach us that it is not the
holding of right faith, but the disposi- !
tions and actions of a man which consti- |
tute his real worth, and that man may
be dastardly knave, and as the time, to
outward appearance, a respectable mem
ber of the Christian community; and
therefore it is not wise to judge of men
by their outward seeming, and to love or
hate men because of their believing more
or less.
Madame Godin felt at seeing such un-
christian and unmanly behaviour such
deep disgust, that as soon as she was
somewhat recuited from the effects of so
many sufferings, she longed for a sight
of some boat, to enable her to escape
from the companionsbip of this unjust
priest, and get to Laguna, one of the a.
aforementioned Spanish mission stations. !
A kind Indian woman made her a jacket
Of Gotten cloth, though Madame Godin
had nothing to give her in payment for it.
But this jacket was to her afterwards a
sacred thing, that she would not have
parted with for any price. She laid it
carefully away with the slippers which
she made of her brothers shoes, and
never could in after times look at the two
without experiencing rush Of sad & ten
der recollections.
At Laguna she had the good fortune to
find missionary Of better disposition
This one received her with kindness and .
sympathy, and exerted himself every way
he could to restore her health, shattered .
by so much suffering. He wrote also on
her behalf to the Governor of Omaguas,
to beg him to aid in expediting her jour
ney. BY this means the elegant Mr.. r.
learned that she was still alive, and as
she was not likely in future to be burden
some to him, while he might through her
means get passage in the Portuguese
vessel, he failed not to call upon her at
Laguna. He delivered to her there some
few of the things which Joachim had
left in his charge, but to the question,
"what had become of the rest?" he had
no other answer to make but "they were
spoilt." The knave forgot when he said
this, that gold bracelets, snuff boxes, ear
rings, and pearls, of which this property
are not apt to spoil
Madame Godin could not forbear max
ing to him the we'll meritcd reproach that
be was the cause of her late suferings,
and guilty of the mornful death of her