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Rh an end to all doubt, and, let us hope, sorrow." I soon got over my feeling of commiseration for these poor criminals, and drowned my thoughts with the delightful intellectual surroundings in which fortune had placed me, growing as I was daily more and more accustomed to my new life in this strange country.

The Recorder was very much occupied for many days with state business, so we did not see much of him. At last, when he had got through his work that had fallen far behind, he came to me one evening and said:—

"My son, I must try and give you the continuation of the history of the English race, down to the present, as I think you are now in a state of health, both in mind and body, that will enable you to understand what I have to reveal, and bear up against the relation of the harrowing details of the destruction of the cities and their inhabitants, with whom you must naturally sympathise. But I will be brief. I have told you how a universal language was founded and established in all