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 ¬one there," (pointing up with his cane to the moon,) " that really looks redder than common, as if she were blushing to see us loitering where we are/' ¬When morning came, his impatient genius suggested to him a most rapid but seemingly indelicate escape from the further delay of my equipment, as he informed me, with the highest glee, that the barber, who had been setting his razors, overhearing our difficulties, had offered a suit of his own never put on, and which, looking at our two persons, he said would fit me to a hair. — He now directed the young man in his own language to fetch them, saying to me in English, " this I can assure you is a most fortu- nate incident, as I could not have supplied you myself, having nothing here but this coarse wrapper, my only covering in thezvilderness" '(for so I found afterwards he styled the whole country, or rather the whole universe, out of the sound of a celebrated bell in Swaloal, the name of which I have forgotten :) " here," he said, " I ¬fol- ¬ /n