The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-06-29


gardens, The shouts rose again, and the afhs a,s
burst trinnphaptly over the gitcu8S;, ,o,,;as;]
hey turnedl; but the of. the ~ Pyo s of
was on him; and he fals S:s, sda,aa. arJ h.
Arab chargers syeg ths sa,as. '1a rosa s.;,,sr
1.oa.thar .lT:' me 5q pre5ions9 said the Scribe
- sa.is Of tlle horses: The Boy reluc.
toap mounted the other,a The Scribe gave
.,s charger tho rein. y1Both were instantly ht
fill speed, and rushing Ike the Wind towards
the long and sandy shore'of the editerranean
where II CURVES like airing of gold, with, Samos,
blue and beautiful, a huge. .saphire, in the rim.
$: Fprtwo days they wandered along thee
until they reached the town. of.,scala Nova;
The prospect had tho usual loyoliness of the
westsof Asia. The bright stream, the noble
fhilsy the brilliant sea, the magnificent forests
! fof- 1o4ia, were before Nhis eyes; ibut he conld
/ see nothing but the, flames. rising over his
palace, and hear nothing hut tho roar of the,
fnngrateful multitude, M Il .,,t,
-".Eool thai I, wasp he exclaimed, as he
dashedh handsagainst This ample forehead !;
"doubly fool, to expect that a generation of
tIose souls of. clay could understand my intcn-
tipns," ..-:a. JILL.
| "Tfme is the teacher, said theyoung Scribe;
'tthe man who does in ,ohe year. what he ought
| to do in ten, must 1svc o. master of his own,
who will make him pay dear. for his lessons.
Try the world again" -But.thc Bey sccrned
the.world; andrcsolved' on turning ,dervise; or
| fakeer, or hermit. II. pr, . ar
| "Let ME goa said the impatient exile,
! "wherc never sightor sound of man will reach
4 me. 0r1et mo wander: where the earth will
be all alike to me, where in The length and
breadth Vf universal brotherhood all imdividu-
atty is forgottcn;' or let mic be the bandit of
/ Roumelia;thc Arab of the Zdara or the Tar
tar of tho northern wilderness. Never will I
be the friend, the protector, or the prince.
again" - >a,'a
Tn two. days more, Venetian ship wps to
sail for Egypt with pilgrims for sthe Holy
House. "Beforc you make your trial Of ;soli-
tpde : said the young. Scribe how ,nis
/ like the march to Mecca" Mustapha wns ill-
different to everything; j; he would have marched
to China, or the moon alike, if he could, ITO
4 Mecca them" was the answer. And they both
vent on board. / l. ::
The passengers were like the living cargocs,
which are yearly thrown on Arabia, composed
of the produce Of every nation, of the Mos.
lem, Turks, Tartars, Persians, Indians, be-
levers in all the shades of crccds which make
til. map. of Mahomctanism as motley as the
pav,,hes Of Jewish garberdine.. The season
was. .love;y, tie sea was smooth, the wind was
fair, aud with ii,cwing sheet the vessel glidcd
from the bay, and Goa:ed along the shores of
that richest landscape Of the world. Mustapha
was delighted with the .scche. All to him was
new, and novelty w:,.: the food Of his eager
spirit; but the sense of beauty, Of grandeur, and
of the overwhelming power of nature, ..pxuria-
ted in the perpetual magnifcence of tho sky, the
mountains and tho ocean that now expanded
on him for the first time. He had never be-
fore seen the sea the Propontis was but lake
and the Bosphorus but a r;ycr ! he now saw
the majesty of. the watera,asfreadng without
limit sending. forth the sun ut dawn, as from
some .pearly palace in the depths of ocean.
and at eve, opening thoir bosom for mis- de-
1
scent among pavilions Of purple and rose, and
closing over him with pillows of molten gold.
AS the vessel swept eastward from the Gdlf
Of Macri; the mountain ranges, that make the
rampant of the land from the violence of the
winter storms, sccn,ed to fly away behind him,
light and rich colored MS the clouds, and swift
as the clouds themselves All was wild fan
tastic and vivid: The marblb range of the
Gulf of Macri was. followed by the promonto-
rios that girdle the great Gulf Of Satalia.
Mnstapha, without the consciousness Of poet
felt the. creative. thoughts of poetry /; and com
4 pared the submits Of the mountains, MS. they
sparkled with incessant radiance, to crowns OF
4 living jewels dropped on them from the skies
or to the thrones of spirits that stoop from tho
stars to keep watch over the world. The go
rious scene vanished cd,-only to be followed by ii
new multitude of all the shapes of beauty, rising
from the distant waters like floating pearls, and
fconstantly spreading and ascending, until they
stood above him in gigantic heights and forms
some frownihg in savage grandeur, some