hausted, suffering, and almost dying condition, last year, at this time under my own native roof, administered to and alleviated by the fond attentions of my beloved Mother and sister, well may my heart be filled with gratitude at the change, and that I am now in a state not to need those tender cares, though far removed from all those so dear to me, who have been wont to bestow them.

It is now more than five weeks since I began to bathe regularly every day in the sea, except the Sabbath, and it has been of great advantage to my health; besides I have learned, perfectly, that noble and useful art of swimming. I get up every morning at half-past five, and go down with my compañero, Uncle's servant, José, to enjoy the luxury of my bath in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, which I can assure you is very grateful. There are several other Spanish young gentlemen, that bathe at the same time. and place with myself, though the greater part of the people bathe in the evening. At that time, between eight and nine or ten o'clock, the highest Señoritas and Señoras in Malaga, as well as the lowest, avail themselves of this healthful and refreshing amusement; and perhaps our New England ladies would be astonished to hear that there are many of them very good swimmers.

After my bath, I generally take an hour's walk, then return to my room, and commence the duties of the day. We have breakfast about nine, and the forenoon I generally devote to studying the Spanish, and recite a lesson to Magdalena after dinner. Between one and two o'clock I take a short walk, and go into the Gabineté de Lectura, or Reading Room, which was established here at the commencement of the year, and is a very pleasant place of resort. As Uncle is a subscriber, I have a carte blanche. The principal Spanish periodicals, as well as French and English papers, are here taken, and Uncle receives from time to time files of New York papers, so that I do not fail to be informed of news from all

parts of the world, that from my own beloved country, as you may naturally suppose, always taking precedence in interest.

After dinner, which we have a little before three o'clock, having spent an hour with Magdalena, I read or write, often the latter in my journal, and at evening take a walk. I retire to bed between ten and eleven, and now, dear E. I have given you the history of a day, having been thus particular in compliance with your known and oft expressed desires.

We e are as a family one, "Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, our comforts and our cares." I often think of this beautiful hymn, and sometimes sing it, though it is singing the songs of Zion in a strange land, for I have no Christian friend to unite with me in its spirit. How blessed it is that besides the bonds of natural affection which bind us, we are also joined in heart by the strong delightful ties of Christian love and fellowship, and though we are now widely separated in space, may this happy union be daily more and more firmly cemented till we are one in heaven.

"The homes of this world become dim and decay,

And friends, when they meet, are too soon called to sever;
But the mansions prepared in the regions of day,

Stand beaming and beautiful ever and ever,

And those, whom the Saviour shall lead to that shore,
Shall stray from its mansions and part never-more."

CHAPTER XI.

THE EXPERIMENT AND EXPERIENCE OF A VOYAGE TO SOUTH AMERICA, WITH NOTES UPON MONTEVIDEO AND BUENOS AYRES.

There is no light without companion shade;

There are no griefs which do not herald joys:

In Nature's balance all are fairly weighed,
And every thing must have its equipoise.
There is no gold withouten some alloys,

And no alloys which are entirely dross;
Day weighs with darkness-silence follows noise;
Life has two sides-its profit and its loss.

ANON.

LEAVING, with regret, the salubrious clime of Andalusia, where, as we have seen, the experiment upon the health of the invalid was in successful progress, we are out once more upon the swelling Atlantic. We have noted the improvement effected in the summer of 1837, and the joy and gratitude elicited by the prospect of returning health. We have seen how life could be enjoyed by one every way fitted for its enjoyment, when the grasp of disease was somewhat relaxed.

The short period of sunshine must now be followed

by a long one of shade. The joy of health must give place to the grief of sickness. The sparkling wine of life must be dashed with its wormwood. The profit and the loss must alternate, in order perhaps that character may gain its equipoise; certainly that the wise, though inscrutable purposes of God's gracious discipline may be accomplished with his child, and that it may be seen hereafter, if not now, how all things work together for good to them that love God.

Not forgetting the principle of letting well enough alone, nor without some doubts on the score of expediency, but over-ruled by the opinion and advice of others, by whom he had, in a measure, to be governed, the beloved subject of these memorials again departed upon a long sea voyage, for which there offered a favorable opportunity in the autumn of 1837, from Malaga to Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, in the bark Isaac Ellis, Capt. Spring. His Private Journal at the time evinces considerable solicitude and doubt in respect to the change and undertaking. But, in the order of Divine Providence, it was so to be. Letters to his Sister, dated at sea, October 26th, 1837, and afterwards at Montevideo, let us into his estate, employments, and prospects on shipboard, and after arriving again at land :

Bark Isaac Ellis, Long. 30° W. MY DEARLY BELOVED SISTER-Our voyage may now fairly be considered as half accomplished.

You will naturally wish to know of my present situation and employments on shipboard, and I can with pleasure give you the particulars. Captain S. and myself occupy the after

cabin of the vessel-a small, but nevertheless comfortable little place, separated by a partition from the cabin in which we eat, and where the first and second mates have their berths. Here, if you could some evening peep in, particularly that of the Sabbath, you might find us seated upon the transoms, on our respective sides of the cabin, singing together one of the sweet songs of Zion, and talking of home and native land-the Captain of his wife and "bairns," and I of a dear Mother, Sister, and Brothers. I find him on shipboard as he was on land—a gentlemanly, agreeable, intelligent man, and one actuated by Christian principle, the sca and the command of his own vessel not having caused that metamorphosis which took place in our quondam captain. No work but that absolutely necessary in managing the vessel is done on the Sabbath; the decks are quiet, and the men may improve the day if they will, in a proper manner, which, alas, few, in the true spiritual sense of the word, are disposed to do.

My employments principally alternate between reading and writing. In Spanish I am reading Don Quixote, which I commenced long since. I read a chapter daily in the Spanish Bible, having already finished the New Testament.

You may be assured, dear E., that it was not in itself from any desire of roving that I have become again a wanderer on the deep. Oh, how gladly would I return if my health would permit, and again nestle down in the quiet home of my childhood's happy hours, where we have, in later years, enjoyed so much delightful Christian communion and fellowship. "Those peaceful hours we once enjoyed, How sweet their memory still." Sweet indeed is their recollection; and may the Lord, in his unspeakable goodness, permit us again to renew them, with the blessings on both sides of health and happy peace.

The circumstance which perhaps has annoyed me more than anything else, in leaving Malaga so suddenly, was the