Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-13

also by 40 means immodest, in any gross
sense, in their demeanor.
According to bis account, the blanlish
mcnts of these tropical females are not very
far from justiGing what Byron wrote Of
them in his beautiful poem Of the "l-i"nd,
founded on the true story of Christian, Sow
art, haywood, Young and other En- sA
sailors, of good family, who, fascinated with
the raAi.ian females, Chen called Otahciion,
mutinied against their captain (BiigI) in
1888, sent him adrift in a boat in the south
Seas, and sleercI back to the oiuJ Of alir"c
ton where they "liyel and loved" forget
ting ali their old associations and conn,c-
tion.. Captain Bligh himself said:
"Ihe women Of Olahcite are handsome,
mid, and cheerful in manners and conycrsa-
tion, possessed Of great scnsibi!ty, and have
sufficient delicacy TO make them be admired
and loved" And Byron thus describes the
enchautment which held captive Christian
and his comrades:
There safe the gentle savage Of the wild,
In growth woman, though in years child,
As childhood dates within our colder chmc,
Where nought is rlpencd rapidly, save crime;
The infant of an infant world, as pure
From nature lovely, warm and premature,
Dusky Ike night, but night with all her stars,
Or cavern sparkling with It's native spals
" it'll eyes that were language and Il spell,
form ike Aphrodite's in her shell,
With all her loyes around her on the dccB
Noluptuous as tie first approach OF sleep,
Yet full Of ifc-tor through her trop.c check
The blush would axe lis way, aad all but speak;
The sun-born blood dluScd her neck, and threw
Der her clear nut-brown skin lucid hue,
Like coral rcddcung through the darkcncd wave,
Winch draws the diver to the crimson cave.
Such was tins daughter Of the Southern Seas,
| Herself Il billow III her energies,
70 bear the bark Of others happiness,
Nor feel IA sorrow TIL thcrjo grew less:
Her wild and warm, yet iltuiu bosom hucw
Nojoy like what 1t gave.
! Our informant says it is singular TO see
how free this land is from all noXious reptiles
lie alllims that he never saw snake or a
toad, and never heard of one during all hi.
saiourn in Tahiti
With the religion which they have bee.
taught Ly the Missionaries TO believe, sliJ
mingle many of their old native superslitions
While he was in the Island he had an oPpor
tuniy Of observing an instance Of ii in th,
case Of young Tahition who had Lost Il
brother. For days, the bereavcd brother
was out in the woods looking for the slirii
of the departed relative, il being supersti-
tion of the natives that the spirits Of the
dead will show Themselves to their kindred
in the shape Of the first living Wild animal
that they happen to see. The first animal Of
the kind that the young man saw was a rat
He 40 sooner discovered the quadruped than
he rushed upon it and captured it, lie then
took it home and carefully Gagged and watch
ed it, 50 that the spirit Of his brother might
always be with him. After this, all his rela
tives carefully aJstained from ever killing on
harming Il rat.
There are several neat churches in the
Island, built of coral rock nicely hewn, and
divine service is performed in them regular
", every Sunday, by the Missionaries