The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-08-01

selves, and pick him to death with their
long weapons, and then insult the intel
ligence of the community by calling the
dastardly act an exhibition of chivalry
and vaor.
1t is no wonder the ladies in Lima are
deficient in delicacy and moral refine.
ment, accustomed as they are from their
childhood TO such savage spectacles. 1t
is but justice, however. to say, that there
are some mothers here who will not per-
init their daughters to attend them nor
will they allow them, for this, or any
other purpose, to disguise themselves in
the saga y manto. There was one right.
eous man in Sodom, and there is more
than one good mother even in Lima.
SKETCHES OF HONOLULU.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10. The bay oi
Honolulu is only bend in the shore
About mile from the strand, cora
reef emerges, over which the rollers pour
their perpetual surge. Through this reef
nature has left a narrow passage, which
admits smaller vessels, but ship of oul
depth is obliged to anchor outside, and
nearly two miles distant from the shore
The right extremity of the bay, as you
enter it, is guarded by the steep cone Of
an exhausted volcano, which has taken
the less terrific name of Diamond Hill
The left is defended by a bold bluff
which shoulders its way, with savage fc-
rocity, into the roaring sea. The town
of Honolulu stretches along the interval
while close in the background scars the
wild crater of another extinguished vol
cano, under the bewildering name of the
Punch-bowl The sleeps beyond arc
broken into deep ravines, which wind of
into the heart Of the Island. On its
mountain crags the boldest eagle might
build in its glens the callow cygnct
slumber.
While was inquiring for good ho-
tel, the Rev. Mr.. Damon, seamen's
chaplain at this port, came on board, and
invited me to take quarters with him, an
invitation which | chcerfully accepted.
Months Of boxing about at sea give a
charm to the land berth, which only they
can fully appreciate who slumbcr over
keels. On landing, my trunk was claimed
by some twenty boys and porters. Iu
the general strife | gave it to one who
appeared to need shilling the most
His fellows took their disappointment in
good humor A short walk brought me
to the domicile of my friend, where an
agreeable lady welcomed me in.
THURSDAY, JUNE IL. l had only
seated myself in my new abode, when
Mr., Damon invited me to accompany him
to funeral. The deceased was for
cigner, OF some popularity among the
natives, who attended his remains in
large numbers to his grave. They were
all on foot, moving in silent, but tumult.
nous order. There was no sclemnity in
their motions, but a subducd air their
faces. Some were helping along those
who were bowed with the in6rmites Of
age, and Others were carrying piping in.
fants in their arms, lashed to their backs
The battle-ground is mile, or more,
from the town, on slight elevation
fenced in and shaded with native trees,
Here the procession halted, and gathered
in dark, silent masses around a new-dug
grave. The coffin was lowered few
words Inappropriate admonition addressed
to those around ; prayer offered the
earth returned to its place ; a slight
mound raised flowers and sprigs Of ever
green cast upon it, and the crowd wound
their way back in the same silent disor-
der in which they came. Here was no
pomp, no trappings Of grief, but that SIM
pie homage of the heart, which bespeaks
sentiment of bereavement and respect.
Let others have, if they will, funeral
pageant. but give me rather the flower
which grief gathers and affection plants,
or that tear which trembles in the eye of
the untutored child of nature.
Before the missionaries introduced a
change of customs, the natives were in
the habit of expressing their grief, at the
death of favorite chief, by knocking out
two or more Of their front teeth. The
strength of their attachment was evinced
by the extent of this dental devastation,
which sometimes involved the destruction
Of every tooth. This is the reason that
so few Of the older inhabitants have their
teeth entire. The missionaries substi.
tuted for this act of self.inaicted violence,
the innocent tokens of bereavement and
that tribute of respect which is conveyed
in casting on the grave sprig of ever
green, as type of the souls Immortality.
Humanity and religion always go hand
in hand.
FRIDAY. JUNE II. The morning has
been passed in receiving calls from the
missionaries. They are plain in their
apparel, easy in their manners, and in
telligent in their conversation. They
have none of that rigid solemnity, which
sectarian puts on, who would throw his
religion into his looks; and yet they are
free of that lghtness and triviality which
are incompatible with high and earnest
purpose. They have cheerfulness with.
out levity, and sabriety without stern.
ness. They are far from being men with
one idea; their mental horizon is broad
They have impressed their genius upon
all the social habits and civil institutions
of the islanders among whom they dwell
Indeed, all that exists here, upon which
the eye of the Christian philanthrepist
can dwell with complacency. has risen
from wetering tide Of barbarism,
through their agency, as the islands them
selves have emerged from the ocean
through the action of the volcano.
TmE OBJECT OF NAPOLEON THr THIRD
IN WRITING HIS "lIIsToRy OF julius
CESAR" To show that Caesar was at all
times governed by grand ideas, and that
he was the friend Of liberty and of the
people, while Pompey-vaiu, false, in-
triguing, and sel6sh-was desirous of
power merely for personal aggrandise
ment to show that the aristocratic party