have been held. hatfch, in 1526, no fuch meetings fome ufeful hints in governing this fpirited nation. It still brings to their recollection their ancient freedom; and they venerate it now, as an altar on which their hardy forefathers have often fworn to defend their rights. Had Jofeph the Second contemplated this field, and had he confidered the transactions which have paffed upon it, it might have given him SURPRISING ACCOUNT OF THE SAGACITY OF A SAVAGE DOG. IN the county of Ulfter, neighbour hood of Wawafing, lived a man with whom I was very intimate; his name was Le Ferre; he was the grandfon of a Frenchman, who, at the repeal of the edict of Nantes, was, with many others, obliged to fly his country. He poffeffed the last plantation of the valley near the blue mountains, (which cross a part of the State of New York,) an enormous chain, which always will be, as it is at prefent, an afylum for deer. He had nothing to fear in time of war, from the incurfions of the inhabitants of thofe favage countries--for he knew them all, and was very much beloved by them. A pretty fall of water had given him the idea of building a grift mill there, which was the best of the valley-the fame current turned alfo a faw-mill, to which he carried, upon the winter's fnow, the trees that he drew from the neighbouring mountains. This useful fream was then diverted in a manner common enough in this country, to water the fields in its vicinity and it caufed the hay to grow there more abundantly, and the best I ever faw. Half a mile from his door ran the river Efopus, upon the borders of which, nature has fixed the richeft foil that I know in America, fo well known under the name of Terre basse [low land:] It is in that valley that fertility itself has taken its abode-it is there, where every barn becomes a temple of Ceres. Le Ferre had eleven children, (a circumftance not extraordinary in this country.) The oldest boys, like their father, were skilful hunters. Who Ed. Mag. May 1797. could live fo near forefts without inftinctively knowing how to go thither, and take the game which they contain? It is thus that those who live upon the banks of the sea become failors. Every thing with man is local, his virtues and his vices, his taftes, and even his prejudices-there is nothing but found morality and virtue which is in every country. He lived with the produce of his land and his mill, happy and tranquil. One of his fons was minifter of. Wawafing, which was inhabited by none but Dutchmen, defcended from the first fettlers of New Amftel, at prefent New York. Being one day at the houfe of this farmer, the youngest of his children disappeared about ten o'clock in the morning-he was four years old :The family, alarmed, fought for him in the river, and in the fields, but in vain!-The frightened parents fent for the neighbours; we went into the woods, and fearched them with the most fcrupulous attention. A thousand times we called him, but received no other answer than thofe of favage echoes. We divided into many parties; night came on, without our being able to flatter ourselves with any hope. The parents, in defpair, refused to return to the house; their terror was without ceffation increafed by the knowledge they had of the activity and rage of the wild cats, against which men cannot always defend themfelves. They painted to themfelves an hungry wolf devouring the child of their bofoms, and fpilling upon the ground the blood of their loved infant. What a U u dark dark and melancholy night! It seem ed to me to last a month. As feon as the day appeared, each of us began to feek again, but as unsuccessfully as the preceding day: We were all in the greatest distress, and knew not what to do. Happily a Savage, loaded with furs, coming from the village of Anaguaga,) upon the eastern branch of the river Sufquehannah) went to the house of this planter, with the defign of repofing himself there. He was furprised to find nobody at home but an old black woman, who had been detained by her infirmities. Where is my brother? demanded the favage of her. Alas! faid fhe, he has loft his little Derick, and all the neighbourhood is employed in feeking for him in the woods. It was then three o'clock in the afternoon." Sound the trumpet, endeavour to recal your mafter; I will find his little child." As foon as the father was returned, the favage asked of him the fhoes and ftockings that little Dérick had last worn: He commanded his dog to fmell them; taking then the houfe for a centre, he defcribed a femicir cle of a quarter of a mile, ordering his dog to fmell the ground every where as he conducted him. They had not gone far, before this fagacious animal began to bay. That hap. py found darted immediately into the hearts of the diftreffed parents fome feeble rays of hope. The dog followed the tract, and ftill bayed; we ran after him with all our might, but foon loft fight of him in the thickness of the woods. Half an hour after ward, we faw him returning; the countenance of the dog was visibly changed; the air of joy was painted in it; I was fure that he had found the child-but,was he dead or alive? What a cruel alternative was this for those poor parents, as alfo for the reft of the company -The favage folJowed his dog, who did not fail to conduct him to the foot of a great tree, where the child was lying in a state of weakness, approaching death. He took him tenderly into his arms, and made hafte to carry him towards the company, who had not been able to proceed with the fame quickness. Happily the father and mother were in fome manner prepared to receive their child; for more than a quarter of an hour they had begun to form fome hopes; a weak light had penetrated into their hearts when they heard the first accents of the favage dog. They ran to meet their brother from whom they received their dear Derick with an ecstacy and agitation that I cannot defcribe to you.-Ah ! my friend, this fcene was pretty and ftriking to contemplate; fpontaneous laughter, fweet tears, ejaculations of gratitude, eyes lifted towards heaven, monofyllables of parental joy, &c. exhibited themselves under a thoufand different forms, too fublime for my feeble pencil. My heart, which had been fo long a time rended with the most fevere grief and strongest fympathy, was diffolved into a flood of tears. This was the cafe with the whole party-as a sweet and gracious rain, after a great drought, re-animates the languishing plants, fo did the tears which we shed remove our anguish, which was fucceeded by the fhorteft and moft fincere compliments. I preffed the father's hands in mine with an honest energy, and took in my arms the good mother and her child, without being able to pronounce a fingle word. After having bathed the face of the child with their tears, they threw themselves round the neck of the favage, whofe heart, though naturally hard, neverthelefs was moved it was the first time that ever I faw an Indian drop a tear. Their gratitude even extended itfelf to his dog--they did not forget to carefs that animal, who, by bis fagacity, had found their dear boy, and who, guided by the infallible impulfe of inftinct, had shown fupe rior to the united force of the reafon of fo many perfons. The dog, like his master, feemed embarraffed and confufed. But to what purpose shall I attempt to defcribe a thoufand moving circumftances, the impreffions of which are ftill engraved in my heart, but are too lofty for my pen, can one communicate half of what one feels? One must have received from the hands of nature the great privilege of paternity, to be able to follow thefe good people in the different gradations of joy which they felt when they perceived that their dear Derick opened his eyes to the light, and tafted fome few drops of nourishment. At our return to the house, our grief was turned into joy each of us felicitated himself upon this new happiness as if it had been perfonal, for every one had been interested in the affair, as his own misfortune, Le Ferre ordered a feaft-eighty-three perfons were invited to it, we paffed this night, this memorable night, with all the joy that the fubject could infpire us with; it was animated by honeft libations and good cheer, peace, union and cordiality prefided at our table. The adventure was made known even at Monbakus, whence many inhabitants came on horseback about the break of day, to participate with us the new happiness of Derick Le Ferre and his wife. The house, tho' large, could hardly hold us, but the fawmill furnished us with boards, with which we extended feats under the piazza. The negroes of the neighbourhood came there alfo, for the blacks as well as the whites, rejoiced with thofe good parents, and wifhed to congratulate them. Derick Le Ferre had truly a difficult task, hardly had he time to embrace and carefs his child, who, during all the night, fo different from what we had paffed in watching, flept upon the knees of his mother, who, all furrounded with pleasure, fat in the middle of the lar U geft chamber. The next day, Le Ferre full of gratitude, offered to the favage what he thought might be useful to him; but abashed and confounded, being little accustomed to fcenes like this, he had retired into the barn, and whence they could hardly perfuade him to come out.Finally, after many folicitations, he accepted a carbine of Lancaster, a town of Pennfylvania, of the value of one hundred and fixty livres. The name of this honeft favage was Terwenia, that of his dog, Oniah; even this circumftance was not forgot. About ten o'clock, Le Ferre defired the company to go into the yard. He placed the Indian by him, and taking his child in his arms, he fpoke thus:-(you must know that this planter had all his life converfed with favages, knew perfectly well their language, and all their cuf toms.) "Terwenifa, "With this branch of wampum I touch thy ears. "Teweniffa-I addrefs myself to thee; my heart was wounded, thou haft healed the wound. I wept bitterly for fear that I had loft my child, thou haft dried up my tears, in find. ing him by means of thy faithful dog. Old as I am, I had lost the fupport of my infirmities, the confolation of my old days. Thou haft found that fupport and confolation. My wife and I were like two corpfe fliff and without life. Thou haft reanimated us by bringing us to the fire. What fhall I do for thee, Teweniffa? There have been already many moons, fince you knew my heart; for many moons, as a man, you have been my friend, now be my brother, I acknowledge and adopt thee as fuch before all thefe witneffes. "Hear, Teweniffa-if ever you become incapable of hunting, come here to live according to your cuftoms; I will build thee here a wigwham-I don't offer thee any land, u 2 you you don't want any, it is from thee and thy ancestors that we hold that which we cultivate. If ever thou art wounded, come under my roof, I will lick thy wound. If ever thou art tired of thy village and thine, come and live with a white man, that thou haft loved a long time, and who to day acknowledges thee for a brother. If ever thou hast caufe to mourn, I will dry up thy tears, as thou haft dried up mine. If ever Kitchy Ma. nitou robs thee of thy child, or af flicts thee any other way, come here and thou wilt find a bear's fkin; I will confole thee if I can. As my adopted brother I give thee this branch of wampum, blue and whitewhen thine, at thy return to Anagu, aga, fhall fee thee carry this wampum upon thy breaft, you will tell them what has paffed. When thy dog fhall be old, and shall not be able to follow thee more, I will give him food and repofe. Teweniffa, I am done." He then took the favage by the hand, and made him fmoke in his pipe, and added in the Dutch language," My neighbours and my friends, behold my brother.-Hence forward let the name of Derick, by which my eleventh child was known, be entirely forgot as if he had never received it at his baptifm, and let him not be called, in the remainder of his life, but by that of his deliverer and uncle, Teweniffa." All the affembly applauded what he faid, and by their approbation fanctified this new adoption. The favage who had received two branches of wampum, and heard a difcourfe, according to their cuftom, prepared to answer it. During more than a quarter of an hour he fmoked without faying any thing, his eyes towards the earth-Then he spoke thus, "Dercik, "I give thee a branch of wam pum, that you may hear the better; with the fame branch I clean the path which leads from our village to thy wigwham. "Hear! What thou haft faid to me is engraved upon my mind. I cannot be thy brother without you be mine; although we are not of the fame blood, thou art my brother, and my wigwham is become thine until we go towards the west Give me thine hand, and smoke in my pipe-(Le Ferre took him by the hand and smoked in his pipe.) "My brother, I have done nothing for thee that thou wouldst not have done for me.-'Tis Kitchy Manitou §, who would have it fo, that I paffed yesterday by thy wigwham. "Since thou art happy I am hap py. "Since thy mind rejoices, mine rejoices alfo. When thou shalt come to Anaguága thou must go no more to warm thyself at the fires of Mataxen, Togararoca, Wapwalipen, and thy other friends-my fire is from this day thine. I will give thee a bear's kin to repofe thy bones upon. I am done, I give this fecond branch of wampum to the end that thou mayeft remember what I have said to thee."-This finished the ceremo ny. The child, fince grown a man, has never relinquished a name which became the feal of his gratitude, as well as that of his father's. I have seen many of his letters. which were figned Teweniffa le Ferre. His deliverer and adopted uncle died fome years after. The young man, with the confent of his father, was at Anaguaga, where, before all the favage village and the miffionary, who was a Moravian minifter, he adopted for his brother the child of old Te weniffa, which bore the fame name. This young favage has never fince croffed the blue mountains without ftop. *It is a common method among favages. Place of repofe after death. The evil genius. The good genius. ftopping at the house of Le Ferre, who has often told him, in my hearing, that as long as he fhall live he will never forget that he owes his life to the father of this adopted bro ther. TRAVELLING ACCOMMODATIONS IN SPAIN. From Southey's Letters. ABOUT two o'clock this after- lighted with the wild and novel prof noon, we left Coruna in a coach and fix. As we fit in the carriage, our eyes are above the windows, which must, of course, be admirably adapted for feeing the country. Our fix mules are harneffed only with ropes the leaders and middle pair are without reins, and the nearest reined only with ropes. The two muleteers, or more properly, the mayoral and zagal, either ride on a low kind of box, or walk. The mules know their names, and obey the voice of their driver with aftonishing docility: their heads are moft gaily bedizened with tufts and hanging ftrings of blue, yellow, and purple worsted: each mule has fixteen bells; fo that we travel more mufically, and almost as fast as a flying waggon. There are four reasons why these bells fhould be worn; two English reafons and two Spanish ones: they may be neceffary in a dark night; and, where the roads are narrow, they give timely warning to other travellers: thefe are the Englith reasons. The Spaniards motives for ufing them are, that the mules like the mufic; and that, as all the bells are marked with a crucifix, the devil cannot come within hearing of the confecrated peal. I walked the road is excellent. It is one of thofe works in which defpotism applies its giant force to purposes of public utility. The villages we paffed through were mean and dirty; and the houfes are in that ftyle of building with which the pencil of Gafper Pouffin had taught me to affociate more ideas of comfort than I found realized. I was de pect: hills beyond hills, far as the eye could extend, part involved in fhadow, and the more diftant illumined by the weftering fun; but no object ever ftruck me as more picturefque than where a few branchless pines on the diftant eminences crefted the light with their dark foliaged heads; the water winds into the countries, forming innumerable iflets of fand, and as we advanced, of mud, fometimes covered with fuch vegetation as the tide would fuffer. We faw fig-trees and chefmuts, and paffed one little coppice of oaks, feanty trees, and evidently ftruggling with an ungrateful foil. By the way-fide were many crucifixes for adoration, and I counted fix monumental croffes; but it is probable that most of thefe monuments are over people who have been murdered in fome private quarrel, and not by robbers. About half a mile before we reached Betanzos (our abode for the night,) the road lies by the fide of the river Mandeo. It is a terrace, upon low arches, through which many fmall currents pafs, wind under the hills, and interfect the pafture into little iflands. On the other fide, the river fpreads into a fine expanfe of water: we beheld the scene dimly by twilight, but perhaps this obfcurity heightened the beauty of the landfcape, by throwing a veil over its nakednefs. We are in a room with two beds, of which I have the choice, for both my companions carry their own. It was a custom among the ancients to commit themselves to the protection of fome appropriate deity, when about to undertake any difficult en |