her eyes, overflowing with tears, on his:[sleepy sentinels resumed their walks, jing he felt their influence, for they kindled ling their breast plates to let their chiefanew the flare in his heart, which almost tain know that they were performing burst his steel corslet with its throes. their duty. The draw bridge was lowered "Serrano," she murmured," ages seem- and the Inca and his party passed over it ed to have swept by since we met! The with soiled and drooping plumes, and roses have bloomed and their leaves are their gaudy dresses bespatiered with gore. scattered over the lake! The dahlias Yllapantac took his way to the terrace have faded! and the heart of Ocestalue alone. The warriors who had followed has almost wept itself away! him wearied and fainting with the fatigues But it were needless to tell all that they of the day, went to seek refreshment. As whispered to each other, and the vows the Inca strode along the terrace, the which they again and again repeated. swarthy warriors bowed themselves to the Hours flew by unheeded by them, until a earth, and remained in that position until distant yell breaking the stillness, reached he had passed by. The chieftains crowdtheir ears. Both started to their feet as ed around him to welcome his arrival, and another and louder yell was borne by on as he came by, threw their mantles on the wings of the breeze, and they then the ground for him to walk upon, and awoke to the danger of their situation. then doffing their plumes, accompanied The princess gazed wildly around, in vain him to his throne, which was raised unseeking to find the page, for she knew not der the canopy. With easy and digni that he had fallen. A pool of clotted blood fied steps he ascended the throne which his marked the place where he fell but he had ancestors had filled for ages past, who disappeared. The noise of the warriors acknowledged vassalage to none save the was becoming louder, and apparently "Child of the Sun and Moon," the supenearing the bower. Don Seranno's mili-rior Inca of Peru. He had scarcely astary mind told him that naught but instant sumed the diadem and sceptre, when a flight could save him, and throwing aside youthful form rushed along the terrace, his weighty armour, that it might not im- and pushing through the group of chiefpede his progress, he lifted the terrified tains threw himself at the feet of the Inca. Ocestalue from the ground and bore her The astonished group lifted their mancas in his arms towards the lake. When he to revenge the insult, but a word from reached the cataract where he had left the Inca prevented them from making use his canoe, the loud shouts of the Indians of them. He raised the form that lay at and the crackling of the twigs told how his feet: it was that of Ocestalue's page! nigh were their pursuers; but the boat was The blood trickled from his breast, and gone! and there was now no alternative his pale face half closed eyes, and quick left but to breast the waters, and if possi- breathing, denoted approaching dissoluble reach the opposite side of the lake. tion. His lips moved and he murmured where they might find concealment and forth inarticulate sounds and broken words. shelter in the mountain recesses. Boldly The Inca was horror stricken at the sight, he leaped into the water and supporting and various emotions agitated his breast, the princess above it, struck out for the and played alternately over his face. The other shore. boy had been his favourite, and to see

The chieftains were still standing under him bleeding, drop by drop away in his the canopy awaiting the arrival of Ylla-arms, made his stern heart swell with compontac, for whom they had long felt much passion, He looked wildly at the chief. anxiety as he had gone on an embassy to tains, as if to ask them what all this meant the Spanish army. Some of the group but he could gather nothing from their thought that the Spaniards had broken countenances but passive astonishment. their faith, and detained him a prisoner. He placed the page upon his throne, and Some were for leading the warriors at tore away his pume and dress. that he once to his rescue. Their deliberations might breathe more freely. The breeze were however ended by the shrill whistle blowing from the lake reached the boy, of Yllapantac himself, which sounded and threw back the golden hair that clus from the other side of the lake. The tered over his forehead, chilled his tast

ebbing blood, and stopped the wound tered, with fear; and the chieftains seemed from bleeding. His fainting spirits reviv- turned to stone. The contending thoughts ed with the refreshing breeze, and his which had crazed the mind of the Inca, heart beat more audibly. having somewhat calmed with the passion

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• Yllapantac !" he murmured and then that escaped with his cry, his voice was paused, for his strength. was, exhausted again heard fiercely giving orders. with the effort. Ho! slaves! down with, the draw. The Inca bent his ear towards the lips bridge!-Peruvians! to the lake! Surof the page, that he might catch his round it; and as you value your lives be words, saying, "Speak on boy; who did quick! To the lake, I say, to the lake!this dastardiy act? By the sun he shall Chieftains! to the bower of Ocestalue!die even were it my own son !" A crown to him who brings in the dog of

The page heard him, and a faint smile a christian, alive or dead." passed over his ghastly features. With The splash of the drawbridge as it one great effort, catching hold of the Inca's touched the water, told that his order was shoulder, he raised himself on his feet, and obeyed. The warriors, hearing his well pressing his hand against his heart, as if known voice answered it with a deafento prevent it from leaving him in the ing shout and ran to execute his orders struggle, he wildly exclaimedThe chieftains threw aside their mantles, "Ocestalue !--the bower!-to the bow- and seizing their mancas, bounded tower, Yllapantac!Ocestalue has fled with ards the bower of the princess. Yllapanthe Christian!" tac rushed across the drawbridge to in

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His voice almost died away to a whis- tercept the escape of the Spaniard, in per, as he continued. case he should reach the other side of the Atabalipa dies! alone! forgotten! un- lake. All was now silent, save only the wept! He falls by the hand of a dog, un-noise of the sentinels as they walked along revenged! To the bower!" the terrace, and the occasional shouts of His frame trembled, his bosom heaved the distant chieftains, who were rapidly a sigh which escaped from his lips min- gaining the bower.

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gled with the words "Ocestalue," and Along the steep descent of a mountain Revenge," and with it his spirit fled, and path, winding among the rocks and prehe fell to the ground a lifeless corpse ! cipices, a Spanish cavalier almost fainting The Inca stood petrified, with his eyes with fatigue, with his limbs torn, and riveted on the page in wild expression. bleeding with the thorns that beset his He was silent but his silence was like that path, bore, or rather dragged an Indian which precedes a storm. A cloud came girl, whose pallid and fainting, features, over his brow, his eyes glared fiercely, and and her hair floating in wild confusion, his thoughts rushed wilely to and fro in bespoke her having been a companion in his mind, as he asked himself his flight. He was struggling to reach Did I hear-see! or was it a dream! a ledge of rocks which overhung the val -Ocestalue has fled with a foe-a chris- ley below; it was covered with verdure; and tian-and her page is lying dead at my its springs of chrystal water, and the shade feet, slain by that foe !" of the spreading trees which grew upon

His bosom swelled almost to bursting, it, afforded a pleasant retreat to the wea and as his lips parted to unburden his ried traveller. At last with great effort soul, a roar like distant thunder rushed he reached it; and exerting his, remaining from between them, and broke the awful strength he bore the Indian girl to a silence. The rocks reverberated back clump of trees, under whose shade some the sound as if it had been uttered by a pious worshippers of the sun had erected hundred tongues. The night-hawk awa an altar, and where a cool spring bubbled kened by the sounds, arcse in the air and up its waters at its foot. He laid the shrilly screamed; the lama started from girl beside the spring and bathed her burnits lair, and dashed along the mountaining forehead and parted her raven tresses crags; and the warrior who had listened and confined them with a string of pearls to the war cry with indifference, now that he took from off her neck. The wa shook in every limb, and his teeth chat-ter and the cool breeze soon revived her.

Ocestalue!" said the cavalier, address-Jiard fall, and spurning the corpse with ing her, as she opened her eyes, we are his foot, said,Thus dies the dog if a safe now! there is naught that can harm Spaniard!"

us here."

: eyes.

Ocestalue had thrown herself upon her He drew her closer to his bosom and lover's body, and called him by every enkissed away the tears that started to her dearing name, but he answered not! Yllapantac tore his sister from the body of Ocestalue fears not for herself, but Don Seranno, and raising her struggling for Serrano," answered the girl. and shrieking in his arms, was about to "But there is nothing to fear now: the carry her up the mountain, when the sun Spanish army is not far distant," observed rising over its tops cast his fiery beams 'her lover. around. The Inca fell upon his knees

his sister towards the altar and laid her

"Is it so near?" asked Ocestalue; "then before his God' and uttered a silent fly! fly at once! I feel that something prayer. He then arose with a countewill happen to us if we stay here. His nance calm but determined, and carried heard you that noise?" Serrano listened, but he heard naught near the spring which threw its tiny ripsave the dashing of the cascade in the ples further on the grass than it was distance. He smiled at her fears and wont, as if it was striving to kiss her ruby tried to soothe her anxious mind. but she lips. The winds left the flowers to gamcontinued to urge him to fly, and to leave bol on her luxuriant tresses, and the sunher to her fate. He would again have beams stole through the leafy canopy to urged their flight to satisfy her solicitude repose on her half closed eyes, so like the but fatigued and faint as he was, it was dying gaze of the mountain roe when the impossible without rest to proceed further. hunter's knife is at its heart. The pearly He thought they were secure in their tears still fingered on her silken eye lashes present retreat, and he determined to like the stars sorrowing to leave the lusawait there until evening, at which time trous moon. Yllapantac stood beside he thought their pursuers would give up his sister with his arms folded on his the search. The rolling of stones and breast, and his dark eyes gazed listlessly gravel down the side of the mountain, on her form; while his plumes drooped startled the cavalier from the slumber into heavily over his face, like the trappings which he had fallen, for nature had sunk of a hearse. He stood motionless as a exhausted, He rushed out from the shade statue, but dark and deep were the thoughts of the trees, to see what was the cause of of his soul. The deep tone of the muffled it. Above him stood Yllapantac on a drum rumbling along the rocks broke his rocky ledge, searching the valley below musings. Its louder tones mingled with with his keen eyes. The Spaniard was faint shouts awoke his soul to action. He about to withdraw to the shade of the rushed to the edge of the cliff, and looktrees, ere he should be discovered, but ing down, beheld in the valley below, the the crackling of the dried twigs beneath Spanish army, winding along the rocks, his feet caught the quick ear of the Inca with their bright armour glittering in the who acknowledged the discovery by a morning sun.

suppressed yell. Ocestalue rushed to- "The dogs," ire murmured, through his wards her lover and caught him by his clenched teeth, "are on the track already. arm as he fell pierced with an arrow. They shall meet with a princely reception; She plucked the arrow from the wound, and plenty of gold they shall have! The and applied her lips to it, to suck out the arrows of Yllapantac shall shower it poison which she knew would 'cause in- among them as the drops of the summer stant death. A manca glittered before rain, for the Incas are not niggardly in her eyes, and sunk into the brains of her their gifts."

lover. A horrid groan and a convulsed A tear stole in his eye as he thus gave shudder of his limbs, and the cavalier was vent to his feelings towards his countryno more!

men.

A demon-like smile played over the "Oh, Peruvians! if ye knew how ye features of the Inca as he saw the Span-are loved by the Children of the Sun, ye

would not charge your misfortunes to die of all diseases, eleven die by drownthem! But our God is angry! He shall ing, or in wrecks.'

drink the blood of his children, and that It appears by a report of a committee shall appease his anger. Ocestalue must of Parliament on the extent of loss in prodie' She shall be the first victim!" perty and lives at sea that between 1833 With heavy steps he took himself to and 1835, inclusive,there were 1573 vesthe altar, dragging after him the mangled sels stranded or wrecked, and during the body of Don Serrano. He drew a knife same period there were 129 vessels missfrom his belt, and with fier.dish joy, plun-ng or lost, making a total of 1702 ves ged it into the heart of the dead body. sels wrecked and missing in the period of and tore away from its repose, the heart three years. The aniount of property, which once beat with noble feelings, and in those vessels was believed to be £8, placed it on the altar. His blade again 5!0, 000, while 2, 682 lives were lost at glittered in the air, and fell ploughing its the same time.

way into the bosom of Ocestalue, the On our own coast it appears by the Pearl of Tenahue! Her spirit had fled Sailor's Magzine for January, 1837, that before. The Inca slowly drew out her 316 vessels and 828 lives were lost in heart, which no vice had ever sullied, and 1836. Now, estimate the value of each which had throbbed only with emotions vessel and cargo at 20,000 dollars, we of delight, for it had ever been innocent. have the amount of 6,320,000 dollars lost Yllapantac placed the pure gem beside the last year by shipwrecks.

echoes.

that of the cavalier, and was about to kin- Well, indeed, might "an ancient philosdle the flame, when the angry scream of opher inquire, when distributing the huan eagle soaring above, caused him to man race into the two classes of the liv look upwards. It described a large circle ing and the dead, who can determine in in the air, and then darted like lightning which class we are to enter the names of from its height, and alighted on the altar. those on sea? At this moment, perhaps, It fixed its piercing eyes upon the Inca while the reader is quietly perusing these for an instant, then swallowed the bleed-lines, the sea in some parts is lashed into ing hearts upon the altar, and spreading fury Deep is calling unto deep. A vesits plumed wings, soared towards the sun, sel is staggering and plunging from the ut ering its shrill screams till the moun- mountain waves down into the roaring tain caverns and rocks rang with their caverns. Death is raging around it, seeking for its prey. A moment longer Yllapantac, horror-stricken, stood fola nail starts, a seam yawns, the masts lowing its flight with his eye, until it was plunge over the side-he enters, and the lost in a floating cloud. The neighing of vessel disappears. So literally and emhorses, and the clangour of arms, telling phatically true is it of seamen, that there of the near approach of the Spaniards. is but a step between him and death! warned the Inca of his danger. He sprang How affecting to think that the great like a deer to the side of the mountain majority of those who have perished at cliff, and casting one long and fearful look sea, were cut off suddenly in the prime of down its yawning abyss, threw himself life. The earth is the grave of infantine over its craggy cliffs. The bubling wa- weakness, of diseased emaciation, of worn ters told, for an instant only, the spot that out care but the ocean is the tomb of the entombed the powerlul frame of the Inca. young, the vigorous, the brave. While and soon the lake assumed its usual tran yet they were full of heart and hope buoy quillity and repose, while far up the brink ant as the bark in which they had ca. of the mountain, was to be seen the altar reered over the waves, the lightning of the accepted sacrifice.

smote them, or the boom struck them overboard. they fell from aloft, or the resistless wave lashed them from the deck; the ship sprung a leak, or stranded, or struck: the boat sunk, or the tempest gallow affecting, how appalling the state-thered, burst, and overwhelmed them. ment, that for every sixteen sailors who Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea

DEATH OF SAILORS.

covered them they sank like lead in the morning, and frequently at the hour of mighty waters.' Under circumstances the midnight, perambulate the streets with a most unfavourable for reflection or prayer, degree of vigilance which custom would in a moment in the twinkling of an eye,' almost seem to have rendered instinctive. they passed into the presence of their The name of this man was Jacques du judge. Bois, who had passed the best years of his How affecting to anticipate the day life in the army, having been called under when the sea shall give us the dead which the drapeau at an early age, and comwere in it when

'From out their watery beds, the Ocean's dead, Renewed shall on the unstirring billows stand, From pole to pole, thick covering all the sea,'

pelled to abandon tho project of a matrimonial alliance with a young woman to whom he was betrothed. The object of his affections we are informed, "had virgined his parting kiss." and passed her How appalling to reflect that of the days in determined celibacy, till Jacques countless hosts which the sea shall then had obtained his discharge, when the surrender up--more numerous than its nuptials, though somewhat too late in life, waves-the great mass perished suddenly were duly solemnized.

'went down quick,' and, oh! what ground From chance or necessity, or from there is to fear that they died unprepared some other cause, which we will not take died in anger with death-died, and upon ourselves to record, the veteran had. gave no sign,' but that of impetitence--adopted the profession of a chiffonier; and died, and offered no prayer but that of one morning in the month of July, in the horrid imprecation-died amidst noise and year 1808, as he was pursuing his usual tumult, hostile to salutary reflection! occupations in the Fauborg St. Germain, And shall we wait till the sea give up at the early hour of half-past three, cre its dead, before we awake to a sense of yet the coming day had chased away the our responsibility? Shall we delay till we uncertainty of twilight, and the streets see them standing for judgment, before we presented the solitary and deserted ap-. begin to weigh their claims, or to cou-pearance peculiar to Paris at that hour, sider the consequences of our guilty neg- a young woman glided out of the doorway lect! Shall the hosts of those who will of a house in the Rue de l'Universite and then arise, unprepared, go on augment- beckoning to Jacques with a mysterious ing, and we make no combined effort to air, made a sign that she had something prevent it?-Rev. John Harris.

The Chiffonier of Paris.

to say. The Chiffonier who was on the opposite side of the street immediately crossed over, when the young woman conducted him into the doorway from which she had issued; and as soon as they were in the passage, which after the door was closed was so dark that they were unable to distinguish each Reader however exalted be the sphere other's features, "Chiffonier," said she, in in which Providence appointed thee to a whisper," will you do me a service?" move, start not at the humble name which "That depends on what it may be," redesignates the following narrative: but re-plied Jacques.

A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

member that the Chiffonier belongs to a "Have the goodness to come up to my very nu nerous class of the inhabitants of apartment," she said," and I will explain that centre of European magnificence, to you."

Paris, so that in whatever direction you She then led the way along a dark may cast your eyes, they will not fail to and narrow passage to the stairs which light upon a chiffonier of some kind busily Jacques in imitation of his conducengaged in search of what has been over-tress, ascended with as little noise as possilooked, or set at nought by his fellow-man. ble till they had reached the fourth story The Chiffonier, however we have to do where they entered a room situated in the with at present is one of those well-known back part of the house. There was a industriels who at the earliest dawn of bed in the room, occupied by a female,

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