buked the Red Sea, and it was dried up; and led our fathers forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation; who overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the waters; for his mercy endureth for ever. Hear me, Adonai! attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locusts. For I have been of the

number of those who wander to and fro in the wide world, who go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters: who see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep; for he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof; who mount up to the heavens; who go down again to the depth; whose soul is melted because of their trouble: who reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end."

The poor Israelite was proceeding in this strain, when a heavy weather roll took his legs from under him, and laid him under the companion stairs, which were already three steps

deep in water. No one offered to raise him up till Mourad had the charity to set him on his legs; but lest the rayah should think too much of his condescension, he qualified the act of kindness with a malediction on his mother and his creed, for not standing steady on the ladder, instead of hiding his face with his wife's amsak, and dancing on his toes, like a male almeh.

The Greek Stephenaki, who had tears for his ancestors and none for his mother, appeared to have very little feeling for himself; he stood the storm as long as it was possible to keep the deck without flinching from the spray, apparently regardless of death, and with all the external apathy of one who thought life of little value. Mourad and he kept together, speaking very rarely, but scorning to hold any intercourse with the whining slaves around them. They had that sentiment in common which brave men seldom fail to find out in the moment of danger, and which imperceptibly draws their spirits in a mutual league of amity. But there was a difference in their courage; the Greek's bosom was insensible to the emotions of the

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violent passions, as his body was insensible to the sufferings of ordinary pain. His mind, like his frame, was constituted of rude materials, of coarse, harsh fibres, the nature of which admitted of no delicacy of organization, physical or moral.

Mourad, on the contrary, was vulnerable to the attack of every passion, and liable to the impression of fear, as well as to that of hate and love; his courage consisted, like that of most men, in suppressing the external evidences of fear, in possessing so much self-command as to suffer not the machine to receive the impression of the disordered mind. He stood with his folded arms in the gangway, in solemn silence, gazing on the surges with a look more of anger than of grief. It was the look of one whose spirit was setting the tempest at defiance, telling the wind to do its worst, and bidding the savage billows swallow up their victims, and put an end to the terror of their momentary threats.

CHAPTER V.

I have great comfort from this fellow, methinks; he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

Tempest.

Towards sunset the wind gradually abated, the heavy sea subsided, and the clouds, which had been flying along the face of heaven," the couriers of the air," were now the wearied messengers of the winds, reposing on their drooping wings.

The poor ship, which had been so long buffeted by the waves, and driven before the gale, lay heavily and motionless on the water, like one on a sick bed who had been watching for the dawn, and was too weak when it came to enjoy its sunshine. The sea had been too long

gushing through sides and stern to leave any buoyancy in her timbers, both pumps were choaked, her water-marks were already covered, and it was visible to every one she was setting fast by the head. Both passengers and people thronged the deck, clearing away the boats, now their last resource. The crew seized on the long boat, and swore not a passenger, save the papas, should put a foot in her. The fellow who was at their head was the second mate, an insolent Candiote Greek, who had been mainly instrumental in preventing the crew from working the pumps when the leak had only sprung, and might have been kept under, Mourad had long noticed the insolence and ill conduct of this ruffian, his eye was now set on him when he was seizing on the long boat, and that fierce glance of his was looking the fellow's spirit down into the deep, as he encouraged his companions to suffer no landsmen in the boat. Mourad called Stephenaki to his side; he told both him and the passengers, their peril; he asked them to stand by him as they valued life, but all, except the Greek, slunk away; he approached the two Turks, he took the pistols