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  more vivid description, especially in the dlalogea arts, this has been found unavoidable; and he trusts that this reason may be taken as a sufficient polagy for the frequent appearance of the word The first and second voyages call hardly for any remark in tls place. As to the third, about which a good deal more might be said here, the author can only gve a renewed expression of regret that it has not been crowned with the desired success--a result which at the time would likely have gaine him the approval eveh of those who have tried, by accounts amusing as well as ludicrous by the utter ignorance they displayed on the affair, to disparage the pro- teedlugs. He has no patience wth that lass of pecple who, like Mrs. Jcllyby, only think of provid- ing woolien stockings for Niggera and Hottentots, while they have no heart for their own poor at home; whose fine moral sense is hurt at the idca of wound- ing the feelings of a bloodthirsty tyrant, even if a great end is thereby to be gained, while they do not think it necessary to gve a thought to the sufferings of the many thousands murdered by his orders. He is no advocate of that kid-glove policy, nowhere mo out of place than in the treatment of Aslatcs, and which, in China for instance, has been most detri- mental to foreign interests. This system of fawning to officials and of Mandan worship will always and invariably lead to one result only--to an overbearing manner on the part of those who nistake kindness