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Second series of instructions which Don Quix
ote gave to Suncho Panza.
“The remarks I have hitherto made, are
documents touching the decoration of your
soul—and now you will listen to those tliat
regard the ornaments of the body.”
Who that had heard this discourse of Don
Quixote, would not have taken him for a
person of sound judgment, and excellent dis
position? but, as we have oftentimes observ
ed in the progress of this sublime history, Ins
madness never appeared except when the
string of chivalry was touched; and on all
other subjects of conversation, he displayed
aclearand ready understanding: so that ev
erv minute his works discredited his judg
ment, and his judgment his works. But in
this second set of instructions communicated
to Sancho, lie discovered great ingenuity,
and raised his madness and discretion to a
most elevated pitch.
Sancho listened with the utmost attention,
and endeavoured to retain bis advice, like a
man who desired to preserve it, as the infal
lible means to promote the happy birth of
that government w : th which he was so far
gone. Don Quixote then proceeded in these
terms:
“With respect to the government of your
person and family, Sancho: in the first place,
I charge you to be cleanly, and pare your
nails; and do not let them grow, like some
people, whose ignorance teaches ‘hem that
long nails beautify the hand; as if that addi
tional excrement, winch they neglected to
cut, were realiy and truly the nail; whereas
it more nearly resembles rhe talonsof a lizard
hunting wind-whifFer, and is a most beastly
and extraordinary abuse.
“You must never appear loose and unbot
toned; for a slovenly dress denotes a disor
derly mind; unless that looseness and negli
gence be the effect of cunning, as we sup
pose to have been the case with Julius Caesar.
“Examine sagaciously the profits of your
place, and if they will afford livery to your
servants, let it be rather decent and substan
tial than gay and tawdry, and be sure to di
vide it between your servants and the poor.
For example, if you can clothe six pages, put
three in livery, and clothe as many poor boys;
and then you will have pages for heaven as
well as earth; now, this is a method of giving,
livery, which the vain-glorious could never
conceive.
“\bstain from eating garlic and onions,
lest your breath should discover your rusti
city.
“Walk leisurely, speak distinctly, but not
So as to seem delighted with your own dis
course; for all affectation is disagreeable.
“Dine sparingly, and eat very little at sup
per; for the health of the whole body de
pends upon the operation of the stomach
“Be temperate in drinking; and consider
that excess of wine will neither keep a se
cret nor perform a promise.
“Beware, Sancho, of chewing on both sides
of your mouth, as well as entering before
company.” “I do not understand what you
mean by eructing,” said the squire. “By
eructing,” answered the the knight, “I mean
belching, which, though one of the most ex
pressive. is at the same time one of the most
vulgar terms of our language; therefore peo
ple of taste have had recourse to the Latin
tongue, saying to eruct instead of to belch,
and substituting eructations in the room of
belchings; and though some people may not
understand these terms, it is of small import
ance; for time and use will introduce and ren
der them intelligible; and this is what we call
enriching the language, over which the prac
tice of the vulgar has great influence.”—
“Truly, signior,” said Sancho, “one of the
advices and good counsels which I intend to
remember, must be that of not belching; for
it is a fault of which I am very often guilty.”
“Erurting, Sancho, and not belching,” re
plied Don Quixote- “Eructing it shall be
henceforward,” answered the squire: “and
I will take care that it shall not be forgotten.”
“Moreover, Sancho, you must not inter
mingle so many proverbs with your dis
course—for although proverbs are short sen
tences, you very often bring them in by the
head and shoulders so preposterously, that
they look more like the ravings of distract
tion than well chosen apophthegms.”
“That defect God himself must remedy,”
said Sancho: “for I have more pioyerbs by
heart than would be sufficient to fill a large
book—and when 1 speak, they crowd toge
ther in such a manner as to quarrel for utter
ance—so that my tongue discharges them
just as they happen to be in the way, whe
ther they are or are not to the purpose, but
I will take care henceforward, to throw out
those that may be suitable to the.gravity of
my office: for where there’s plenty of meat,
the supper will soon be complete. He that
shuffles does not cut. A good hand makes a
short game—and, it requires a good brain, to
know when to give and retain.” “Courage,
Sancho,” cried Don Quixote, “squeeze,
tack, and string your proverbs together—
here are none to oppose you. My mother
whins me, and I whip the top. Here am 1 ,
exlwrting thee to suppress thy pooverbs, I
and in an instant thou hast spewed forth a j
whole litany of them; which are as foreign ‘
from as an old ballad. Remem
*’er’ * not sa - v a proverb pro
perly apjjjifcd ■is'amiss—but, to throw in and
string ¥ijgfelher old saws helter skelter, !
renders conversation altogether mean and
despicable. i
“When you appear on horseback, do not :
lean backwards over the saddle, nor stretch
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out your legs stiffly from the horse’s belly,
nor let them bang dangling in a slovenly man
ner, as if you was upon the back of Dapple;
for some ride like jockies, and 3ome like gen
tlemen.
“Be very moderate in sleeping; for he who
does not rise with the sun cannot enjoy the
day: and observe. O Sancho, industry is the
mother of prosperity; and laziness, her op
posite, never saw the accomplishment of a
good wish.
“The last advice which I shall now give
thee, although it does not relate to the orna
ment of the body, I desire thou wilt careful
ly remember : for, in my opinion, it will be
of as much service to thee as any 1 have hith
erto mentioned; and this it is: never engage
in a dispute upon pedigree, at least never
compare one with another; for in all compa
risons, one must of consequence be preferred
to the other; and he whom you have abased
will abhor you, nor will you ever reap the
least return from him whom you have extolled.
“Your garb shall consist of breeches and
stockings—a full waistcoat, with skirts and
hanging sleeves, and a loose ccal; but never
think of wearing trunk-hose, which neither
become gentlemen nor governors
“ This is all that occurs to meat present,
i in the way of advice: but, in process of time,
i my instrifrtiuns shall be proportioned to thy
i occasions, provided thou wilt take care to
I communicate, from time to time, the nature
! of thy situation-”
j “Signior,”said Sancho,*“l plainly perceive
that all the advices you have given me are
sound, and good, and profitable; but of what
signification will they be, if I forget tliemalj?
I Indeed, as for the matter of not letting my
i nails grow, or marrying another wife* in case
I should have ail opportunity, it will not ea
sily slip out of my brain: but as to those oth
er gallimawfries, quirks, and quiddities, I
neither do retain them, nor shall l ever re
tain more of them than of last years rain; and
therefore, it will be necessary to let me have
them in writing; for though L myself can nei
ther read.nor write, I will give them to my
! confessor, that he may repeat, and beat them
! into my noddle, as there shall be occasion.”
| “Alt, sinner that I ami” exclaimed Don
, Quixote, “what a scandal it is for governors
! to be so ignorant that they can neither read
nor write. I hou must know, Sancho, that
for a man to be totally devoid of letters, or
left banded, argues either that lie was de
scended from t lie very lowest and meanest
of people, or that lie was so wicked and
stubborn, that good example and judicious
precept have had no effect upon his mind or
understanding.’ Tins is a very great defect
in thy character, and 1 wish thou wouhlst
learn, if possible, to write thy name.” “i can
sign my name very well,” answered Sancho;
“Tor, during my stewardship of the brother
hood, I learned to make such letters as are
ruddled upon packs, and those they tell me
stood for my name: besides, I can feign my
self lame of my right hand, and keep a sec
retary to sign in my room; so that there
is a remedy for every thing but death. And
I having the cudgel in my hand, will make
him do as I command; for, He whose father
is mayor—yoi| know—and 1 shall be a gover
nor, which is still better. Let them come
and see, but not throw their squibs or slan
ders at me; otherwise, they may come for
wool, and go home shorn. The hoW& itself
will tel), if God loves its master well. A
rich man’s folly is wisdom in the world’s eye:
now, I being rich, as being governor, and li
beral withal, as I intend to be, nobody will
spy my defects. Make yourself honey, and
a clown will have.flies. You are worth as
much as you have, said my grannam; and,
Might overcomes right.”
“O! God’s curse light ou thee,” cried Don
Quixote: “threescore thousand devils fly
away with thee and thy proverbs! A full
hour hast thou been stringing them together,
and every one lias been like a dagger to my
soul. Take my word for it, these proverbs
will bring thee one day to the gallows! for
these thy vassals will deprive thee of thy go
vernment, or at least enter into associations
against thee. Tell me, numscull, where
didst thpu find this heap of old saws? or how
didst thou learn to apply them wiseacre? It
makes me sweat like a day labourer to utter
one proverb as it ought to be applied.”—
“Fore God, sir master of mine.” replied San
cho, “your worship complains of mere trifles.
Why the devil should you be in dudgeon
with me for making use of my own; 1 have
no other fortune or stock, but proverbs up
on proverbs; and now there are no less than
foifr at my tongue’s -end that comes as pat to
thepurpose as peat-sin a basket; but, feral)
that,, they shall not comeiorth; for, sagacious
silence is Sancho.”* “I’hat thou art not,
Sancho,” said the knight, “far from being sa
gaciously silent, thou art an obstinate and
eternal babbler- Nevertheless, 1 would fain
hear those four proverbs that are so pat to
the purpose; for I have been rummaging my
whole memory, which I take to be a good
one, and not a proverb occurs to my recollec
tion.” “What can be better than these?”
replied the squire; “Neverthrust your thumb
betw-een another man’s grinders; and to, Get
out of my house, what would you with my
wife? there is no reply: Whether the stone
goes to the pitcher, or the pitcher to the
stone, ’ware pitcher. Now all these fit to a
hair. Let no man meddle with a governor
or his substitute; otherwise he will suffer,
as if he had thrust his finger between two
grinders—and even it they should not be
grinders, if they are teeth, it makes little
difference: then, to what a governor says,
there is no reply to be made; no more than
to get out of my house, u hat would you with
; my wife? and as to the stone and pitcher, a
blind man may see the meaning of it; where
fore, let him who spies a mote in his neigh-
I hour’s eye, look first to the beam in his own,
I that people may not say of him, The dead
I mare was frighted at the flea’d mule: and
1 your worship is very sensible that, A fool
*lnstead of saintly.
knows more in his own house than a wise
man in that of his neighbour.” “There. San
cho, you are mistaken,”answered Dom Qui
xote, “a fool knows nothing either in Ins own
or his neighbour’s house; because no edifice
of understanding can be raised upon the
foundation of folly. But here let the subject
rest—if thou sltouldst misbehave in thy go
vernment, thine will be the fault, and mine
the shame—l console myself, however, in re
flecting that I have done my duty in giving
thee advice, with all the earnestness and dis
cretion in my power—so that I have acquit
ted myself in point of promise and obliga
tion. God conduct thee, Sancho, and gov
ern thee in thy government, and deliver me
from an apprehension I have, that thou wilt
turn the island topsy turvy; a misfortune
which 1 might prevent, by discovering to
the duke what thou art, and telling him-all
j that paunch and corpulency of tlnne is no
j other than a bag full of proverbs and imper
tinence.”
“Signior,” replied Sancho, “if your wor
ship really thinks I am not qualified for that
government, l renounce it from hencefor
ward tor ever, amen. 1 have a greater re
gard for a nail’s breadth of my soul than my
whole body; and I can subsist as bare San
cho, upon a crust of bread and an onion, as
well as governor on capons and partridges;
for, white we sleep, great and small, rich and
poor, are equal all. If your worship will
consider, your worship will find that you
yourself put this scheme of government into
jmy head; as for my own part, I know no
: more of the matter than a bustard: and if you
j think the governorship will be the means of
my going to the devil, i would much rather
go as simple Sancho to Heaven, than as a go
vernor to hell-fire.”
“Before God,” cried the knight, “Irom
| these hist reflections thou hast uttered, I pro
; nounce thee worthy to govern a thousand
islands. Thou hast an excellent natural
disposition, without which all science is
naught; recommend thyself to God, and en
deavour to avoid errors in the first intention;
I mean, let ihy intention and unshaken pur
pose be, to deal righteously in ail thy trails
actions; for heaven always favours the up
right design. And now let us go toadinner:
for I believe their graces wait for us.”
FltOM THE XAXTCCKET KN UtTJRER.
SOGIE I Y ISLAND-..
By the ship Alexander, Cant. G. B. Chase,
which arrived on the Ist ultimo, bringing
99,000 gals, sperm oil from the Pacific
Ocean, we have obtained some verv valuable
information concerning that interesting clus
ter of islands in the S. Pacific, known since,
the days of Cook as the Society Islands.—
We are not aware that we can add much to
the general details which have hitherto
been giveniv Cook, Boughanville, Wallis
Banks the Missionaries, and others from
time to time. But With the verbal descrip
tions, and written documents of our infor
mant, we have become so fascinated, that
the temptation to lay them before cur rea
ders is irresistible. If there are blessed
spots on this dark planet, which may be said
to approximate towards the felicity of those
abodes erewhile inhabited by primeval in
nocence, they are to be found in this remote
Archipelago. It forms without the aid of
philosophy and metaphysics, such a para
dise as enlightened man, engrossed in perile
luxury, abounding in invention,’ and osten
tations of artificial skill, has never yet con
structed or even fancied. Under a sky al
ways propitious, breathing an untainted at
mosphere, and dwelling on a soil exuberant
beyond imagination, the happy natives of this
region are as yet exempt from the vices and
follies of their more civilized contemporaries.
These sinless islanders, it is true, were
once contaminated by European navigators
who first visited them about half a century
since, and deposited the seeds of both moral
and physical disorders;the serpentofsensnali
ty brought disease and their little
world—and thousands were swept oft’ by
maladies, of which they knew not the natm e,
nor could they devise a remedy. Justice
however requires the avowal, that for these
base encroachments, a partial attonement
has succeeded—and that through the exer
tions of those missionaries who have intro
duced the simple arts of domestic iife, with
out superadding the inscrutable perplexities
of religious sectarism, the inhabitants of the
Society Islands now present a model which
uncivilized community need blush to imitate.
Hospitable and liberal to excess—a dispo
sition which is inspired perhaps by the over
whelming bounties of nature—crimes are of
rare occur fence. Any deviation from the
line of rectitude is immediately punished by
condemning the males to labor on the pub
lic roades, of which they are constructing
several; and by making the females work at
beating —a preparatary process in the manu
facture of their cloth, which is made from
the bark of tree. Although stigmatized by
Cook as thieves, we are assured that the pro
pensity for pilfering, so common among most
savages’ is scarcely known here To show
the detestation in which this vice is held,
we have the following anecdote. While the
Alexander lay at the Island of Huaheme, a
canoe arrived from a neighboring island,
bringing a man bound hand and foot, who it
appears emigrated several years previously
from the former place, and had recently
been detected in stealing. They threw him
on shore with the utmost contempt, crying
out to the gathering crowd, “Here, take
your man—we want no thieves among us!”
The mortified Huaheineans retoritng upon
their visitors as they paddled off: “He nev
er learned to steal among vs —it was with
you that he acquired this practice!”
Within a few years, the progress which
these unsophisticated beings have made in
all the useful arts, is really admirable.—
They have not only become proficient in
husbandry, their gardens being inclosed, and
cultivated with practical regularity—they
are not only enabled to rear comfortable
dwellings, having framed houses, plastered
inside with lime burnt from the coral rock—■
but the y have attained'to a considerable de
gree ot perfection in the arts o: reading and
: writing—schools tor which were establisneJ,
and universally patronized,
i Money is wholy without use among them
, —there is therefore no incitement t ava
rice and cupidity ; no imprisonment for liebtl
Intercourse with civilized man, it is n> be
feared, will in due course of time bring cor*
i t'uption with it, as it already has done at the
Sandwich Islands and the Marquesas. In
•the former, we are informed, every species
l of dissipation and liceniiousiu ss is now pre
valent —while at the latter, the natives have
■ relapsed into the most brutal and ferocious
j barbarity. W hether"the establishment of
; missionaries in the Sandwich Islands lias or
j has not contributed to produce i ins result,
: we will not pretend to determine; hut- it is
j well known that the murderous conduct of
j a certain American Commodore a. die >iar
! quesas; has’so exasperated the iiauves, tfiat
; all attempts io civilize, or even to approach
; them, w ill for many and many years be ut
terly useless.
Ships bound to the East Indies may as
well take these Islands, as ‘•andwieh or
Marquesas in iheir route—supplies may be
j vastly easier obtained. Here are abundance
lof li ig s , w hich run at large, feeding on the
| bread fruit; this fruit is very plentiful nine
months in file y ear. I here are aiso great
numbers of goats, some cattle, ami a profu
sion of tame fowls. f Among their vegetal le
productions, are immense quantity oi cocoa
nuts, pineapples, limes citrons, oranges,
p antains, bananas pumpkins, melons, yams,
tarro, sweet potatoes, cabbage, &e. &c. The
sugar cane also grows in great perfection;
considerable quantities of sugar might he
manufactured, could they procure kettles.—
The finest kind of wood are found in their
forest; that of the bread fan it tree may be
applied to numerous purposes, ihe lan
guage of this people is mticn like that or the
Sandwich Islands, wonderfully easy of ae
qu rement. the inhabitants possessing ‘lie
most friendly feelings, are extremely atten
tive to strangers, ‘heir manners are open and
ingenious; they or ess in a style tar superior
to those of the other Islands in ‘hat ocean;
anti appear to have reached a higher point
of civilization, without having contracted
dies? faults which have usually attended
oilier nations in their egress from rudeness
and ignorance.
Tahiti, usually called Otaheite, though not
ranked by Cook among these islands, is the
largest of the Society Isles It is situated in
lat. 27 * 40, S. lon. 149, W. The harbour
most visited is on the north side, and is called
Mataval pronounced Matav-ye Ma aval Bay is
bounded N. by Point Venus, and E. and S.
by the district of Pal-e. About half a mile
N. EL from the above point, ihere is a shoal
two miles in length, and, about the same dis
tance from the shore, over which, however*
‘he water never breaks, there being 15 feet
in the shallowest part. Just within the en
trance on the N. side of the bay, there is an
other reef called Dolphin Bank, which is vis*
siblefrom a ship’s deck,and inboistrnuswhea
flier the surf breaks upon it. The bay of
Matavai is open td the wind and sea from
the XV. and t L but the ancorage is good.—
Four miles S. XV of Matavai, there la small
bay called Taoni; but the entrance is narrow
and the harbour, unless well known, is
scarcely capacious enough for large ves
sels. ft is most frequently resorted to hy
small craft belonging to the Islanders, or
vessels trading from New south Wales.—
Three miles farther to the S. XX . or about
seven miles from Matavai, is another harbor,
called Papeete, which has recently been
much visited. If is verv capacious, quite se
cure from any sw ell of the sea. and ccniniodi.
ous for heaving a vessel down, or perform,
ing others repairs; the bottom is good, and
watering is also convenient. The entrance
is bv an opening in the reefs, sufficiently
large for any vessel under 500 tors A
small Island with cocoa-nut and others trees
upon it stands on the X. side of the entrance
forming a very good mark for vessels making
the harbour, either from the N. or *■>
These are the principal harbours visited by
ships touching at Tahiti.
Eimeo is the next ot the Society Islands,
and is situated due west of Tahiti, from
which it is seperated by a strait. 12 or 14
miles wide, it has several good harbours;
there is one on the N. called Look’s harbour;
but the best is Opunohu, called in the charts
Taloo harbour, this is on the N XX . part of
Eimeo, 21 miles from Matavia. Here v essels
are perfectly secure from wind and sea. can
refit, water, and procure supplies with great
facility.
Hudheino, bearing nearly N. W. from Ei
meo. is about 65 miles distant. On the wes
tern side is a fiine harbour called Fare har
bour (spelt by Cook, Owharre,) which has
two entrances, N. and S. the former of which
is the best. Across the mt/flth is a bar or
reef, where vessels may bring up in 15 to 17
fathoms water, sandy battom. On this bar,
which is partly above water, the natives may
be seen searching for shells &c. The har
bour is perfectly secure being on the lee
ward side of this is'and; it is also capacious,
and fiords every convenience for reparing
or heaving down a ship. Water is near at
hand, being supplied by a rivei from the
mountains, which empties itself into ‘he
southern part of the harbour. AU oilier
supplies are procurable during most seasons
of the year. Yams can be obtained from No
vember to March generally The whole is
land is surrended by a narrow coral reef,
within which the natives catch the fines’ fish
in great plenty. There are two principal
inlet 9, running from the harbor one or two
miles inland; wherein the water is from 10 to
12 fathams deep, with a bold shore, affording
excellent situations for heaving vessels
i down. This island is divided near the mid
dle by a shallow creek which runs entirely
I through from N, W. to S, £.
J\‘o. 30.