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DARIEN lllll? GAZETTE. VoL VL ©arien <©a3ette EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY CHA’S. F. GRANDISON. (ON THE BAY) At &5 per annum , payable in advance SELECTED. 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 darlen, (Georgia,) <£quai anti €jtact Justice. Tuesday, august 10, ißi4. 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.