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Rh Because moving along he purifies everything, therefore he is the sacrifice. Of that sacrifice there are two ways, by mind and by speech.

2. The Brahman priest performs one of them in his mind, the Hotri, Adhvaryu, and Udgâtri priests perform the other by words. When the Brahman priest, after the Prâtaranuvâka ceremony has begun, but before the recitation of the Paridhânîyâ hymn, has (to break his silence and) to speak,

3. He performs perfectly the one way only (that by words), but the other is injured. As a man walking on one foot, or a carriage going on one wheel, is injured, his sacrifice is injured, and with the injured sacrifice the sacrificer is injured; yes, having sacrificed, he becomes worse.

4. But when after the Prâtaranuvâka ceremony has begun and before the recitation of the Paridhânlyâ hymn, the Brahman priest has not (to break his silence and) to speak, they perform both ways perfectly, and neither of them is injured.

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 or standing in each other's way. Piety the most exalted,—talents the most splendid,—may there find ample room for display; the greatest trophies of Divine grace will there be obtained, and the Gospel is destined to achieve more in China than has ever been witnessed elsewhere, mainly on account of the number of individuals to be brought under its influence. This then is the field for missionary exertions; the sphere where the most influential societies should direct their chief efforts, for until some impression is made upon China, it will matter little what is achieved in other more confined and thinly peopled regions. The conversion of a few islands to Christ, and the introduction of the Gospel to the extremities of a continent, resemble an investing of the outworks of heathenism; but the strong hold remains still untouched, and until China is evangelized, the greatest half of our work remains to be begun.

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Rh into as much clarified as will cover them; set them by till next day, boil them all together, and set them by till the day after; then drain the syrup and boil it till it is very smooth, return your oranges into it, and give all a boil; the next day boil the syrup till it rises almost up to the top of your pan; then return your oranges into it, give them a boil, and put them by in a pot to be candied, as hereafter mentioned, whenever you shall have occasion.

Pare off the outward rind of the oranges very thin, and strew it only with fine powder sugar, as much as their own moisture will take, and dry them in a hot stove.

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1536.] 'Right Worshipful,—On the morrow after that Master Hawkins departed from hence, I, having nothing to do, as an idler went to Lambeth to the Bishop's palace, to see what news; and I took a wherry at Paul's Wharf, wherein also was already a doctor named Crewkhorne, which was sent for to come to the Bishop of Canterbury. And he, before the three Bishops of Canterbury, Worcester, and Salisbury, confessed that he was rapt into heaven, where he saw the Trinity sitting in a pall or mantle or cope of blew colour; and from the middle upward they were three bodies, and from the middle downward were they closed all three into one body. And he spake with Our Lady, and she took him by the hand, and bade him serve her as he had done in time past; and bade him preach abroad that she would be honoured at Ipswich and Willesdon as she hath been in old times.

'On Tuesday in Ember week, the Bishop of Rochester came to Crutched Friars, and inhibited a doctor and three or four more to hear confession; and so in Cardmaker and other places. Then the Bishop of London's apparitor came and railed on the other bishops, and said that he, nor no such as he, should have jurisdiction within his Lord's precincts. Then was the Bishop of London sent for to make answer; but he was sick and might not come. On Friday, the clergy sat on it in Convocation House a long time, and left off till another day; and in the mean time, all men that


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 :Note.—Thus you may candy all sorts of oranges, lemon peels, or chips; lemon rings and faggots are done the same way, with this distinction only, that the lemons ought to be pared twice over, that the ring may be the whiter; so you will have two sorts of faggots; but you must be careful to keep the outward rind from the other, otherwise they will discolour them.

Cut them all length-ways into quarters; scrape out the seeds and inside, and preserve and candy the same as above, only with this difference, boil them three times up in the syrup.
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Take your pippins and weigh them, then put them into your preserving pan; to every pound put four ounces of sugar, and as much water will scarce cover them; boil them to a pulp, and pulp them through a sieve; then, to every pound of the apples weighed, take one pound of sugar clarified; boil it till it almost cracks, put in the paste, and mix it well over a slow fire; take it off and pour it on flat pewter plates, or the bottoms of dishes, to the thickness of two crowns, and set


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seeking to evangelize the heathen world, two descriptions of people claim our attention; namely, the barbarous and the civilized. China belongs to the latter class. Instead of a savage and untutored people—without a settled government, or written laws,—roaming the desert, and living in caves,—dressed in skins, and sitting on the ground,—knowing nothing of fashion, nor tasting luxuries; we behold in the Chinese a quiet, orderly, well-behaved nation, exhibiting many traces of civilization, and displaying them at a period when the rest of mankind were for the most part sunk in barbarism. Of course we must not look for that high degree of improvement, and those well-defined civil rights, which are in a great measure the effects of Christianity; neither are we warranted to expect in China any of those advances in science, or improvements in the arts, which now distinguish Europe, and which are the result of that march of mind so


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Rh set them in the stove for three or four hours; then cut it into narrow slips, and turn it up into knots of what shape or size you please; put them into the stove to dry, dusting them a little; turn them, and dry them on the other side, and, when thorough dry, put them into your box.
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Take gum-bouge one quarter of an ounce, of indico and blue the same quantity; beat them very fine in a brass mortar, and mix with it a spoonful of water; so you will have a fine green.

Pick the leaves off the violets, then boil some of the finest sugar till it blows very strong, which pour into your candying-pan, being made of tin in the form of a dripping-pan, about three inches deep; then strew the leaves of the flowers as thick on the top as you can, and put it into a hot stove for eight or ten days; when you see it is hard candied, break a hole in one corner of it, and drain all the syrup that will run from it, break it out, and lay it on heaps in plates to dry in the stove.

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98 of the age we live in. Railways, tunnels, machinery, and all the ramifications and operations of gas and steam, are not to be looked for in China. With these exceptions, however, China possesses as much civilization as Turkey now, or England a few centuries ago. Indeed, were the question proposed to a Chinese, as to which he considered the most civilized nation, while he might acknowledge the superiority of Europeans in cunning and force, he would not scruple to claim for his own countrymen the praise of a superior polish. They denominate China, "the flowery nation,"—"the region of eternal summer,"—"the land of the sages,"—"the celestial empire,"—while they unscrupulously term all foreigners "barbarians," and sometimes load them with epithets still more degrading and contemptuous, such as swine, monkeys, and devils.

The soliloquy of one of them is rather amusing; "I felicitate myself," says Tëen Ke-shih, "that I was born in China; and constantly think how very different it would have been with me, if born beyond the seas, in some remote part of the earth, where the people, deprived of the converting maxims of the ancient kings, and ignorant of the domestic relations, are clothed with the leaves of plants, eat wood, dwell in the wilderness, and live in the holes of the earth; though living in this world in such a condition, I should not have been different from the beasts of the field. But now, happily, I have been born in the middle kingdom. I have a house to live in; have food, drink, and elegant furniture; clothing, caps, and infinite blessings; truly the highest felicity is mine!"

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 the pan with a spoon till white; then stir all till the sugar leaves them, and sift and dry them. Jonquils are done the same way.

Take figs when they are ripe, weigh them, and to every pound of figs add a pound of loaf sugar, wetted so as to make a syrup; put the figs in when the syrup is made, that is, melted; let it not be too hot when you put them in; boil them gently till they are tender, and put them up in pots: if they are kept too long candied they lose their beauty; but when you are desirous to use them, and you take any out of the pots, you must take care to add as much sugar, boiled to a candy height, as will cover those remaining in the pots; but before you put the figs into the sugar, they must be washed in warm water,and dried with a cloth; let not your syrup be boiled above a syrup candy height; let the figs lie a day or two, then take them up, and lay them upon glasses to dry; they will candy with lying one hour in the syrup, but it is better that they lie longer.

Blanch and beat a pound of almonds with rose or orange flower water, and, when they are well beaten, put in half a pound of double refined sugar beat and seered; work it to a paste, spread some on wafers, and dry it in the oven; when it is cold, have ready the white of an egg beaten, with rose water and double refined sugar; let it be as thick as butter, and draw your march pan through


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Rh through it, and put it in the oven; it will ice in a little time, and keep for use. If you wish to have your match pan large, cut it, when it is rolled out, by a gutter plate, and edge it about like a tart; wafer the bottom, and see as aforesaid when the ice is rising; you may colour, gild, or strew them with comfits, and form them in what shape you please.

Take cherries before they are ripe, stone them, and pour them clarified sugar boiled upon them.

Cut your fruits in half, put sugar upon them, bake them in a gentle oven close stopped up; let them stand half an hour, and lay them one by one, on glass plates to dry.

Take a quart of cream, boil it with mace, then take half a pound of rice, sifted and beat as fine as flour, boil it with the cream to the thickness of a jelly; sweeten it with sugar, and turn it into a shallow dish; when cold, slice it, and you may eat it like flummery, with cold cream.

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 them off the fire, and keep them stirring till they are cold in the pan you candied them in; then sift the loose sugar from them and keep them dry in boxes; or you may candy the flowers whole, just as you think best.

Take half a pound of double refined sugar finely beaten, wet it with orange flower water, and boil it candy high; then throw in a handful or orange flowers, keep it stirring, but not let it boil; and when the sugar candies about them, take it off the fire, drop it on a plate, and set it by till it is cold.

Take what quantity of fine sugar you please, well beaten and seered; put it into a bason, set it over hot coals, and have the juice of raspberries infused in a pot of water, as you do you common cakes; then throw a little sugar among the juice, but not too much, that it may not dissolve the sugar, but dry with it presently; let it dry to a candy height, and it will keep all the year.

Squeeze the juice of two Seville oranges and one lemon into a china bason that holds about a quart, sweeten this juice with the syrup of double refined sugar, put to it two spoonfuls of orange flower water, and strain it through a fine sieve; boil a large pint of cream, with some of the orange peel cut thin; when it is pretty cool, pour it into a bason of juice through a flannel, which must


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344 have taken loss or wrong at his hands, must bring in their bills, and shall have recompense.

'On Sunday last, the Bishop of Worcester preached at Paul's Cross, and he said that bishops, abbots, priors, parsons, canons, resident priests, and all, were strongthieves; yea, dukes, lords, and all. The King, quoth he, made a marvellous good Act of Parliament, that certain men should sow every of them two acres of hemp; but it were all too little, even if so much more, to hang the thieves that be in England. Bishops, abbots, with such others, should not have so many servants, nor so many dishes; but to go to their first foundation; and keep hospitality to feed the needy people—not jolly fellows, with golden chains and velvet gowns; ne let these not once come into houses of religion for repast. Let them call knave bishop, knave abbot, knave prior, yet feed none of them all, nor their horses, nor their dogs. Also, to eat flesh and white meat in Lent, so it be done without hurting weak consciences, and without sedition; and likewise on Fridays and all days.

'The Bishop of Canterbury saith that the King's Grace is at full point for friars and cliauntry priests, that they shall away all, saving them that can preach. Then one said to the Bishop, that they had good trust that they should serve forth their life-times; and he said they should serve it out at a cart, then, for any other service they should have by that.'

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1536.] of which I have spoken in the first chapter of this work.

'On Saturday in the Ember week, the King's Grace came in among the burgesses of the Parliament, and delivered them a bill, and bade them look upon it, and weigh it in conscience; for he would not, he said, have them pass either it or any other thing because his Grace giveth in the bill; but they to see if it be for the commonweal of his subjects, and have an eye thitherwards; and on Wednesday next he will be there again to hear their minds. There shall be a proviso made for the poor people. The gaols shall be rid; the faulty shall die; and the others shall be rid by proclamation or by jury, and shall be set at liberty, and pay no fees. Sturdy beggars and such prisoners as cannot be set at work, shall be set at work at the King's charge; some at Dover, and some at places where the water hath broken over the lands. Then, if they fall to idleness, the idler shall be had before a justice of the peace, and his fault written. If he be taken idle again in another place, he shall be known where his dwelling is; and so at the second mention he shall be burned in the hand; and if he fail the third time, he shall die for it.'

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Rh must be held as high as you can from the bason; let it stand a day before you use it; when it goes to table, stick slips of candied orange, lemon, and citron peel on the top.

Take a pint of sack and half a pound of Naples biscuits, put them in a deep dish or bowl, and let them stand ten minutes; take a quart of cream, whisk it well, pour it over the wine and biscuit, and send it to the table directly; it must be made just as you are going to use it: you must mind to put in as much biscuit as will soak up the wine, and no more.

Take six square tins the size of a card, fill them with very stiff flummery? when you turn them out, have ready a little cochineal dissolved in brandy, strain it through a muslin rag, then take a camel's hair pencil, and make hearts and diamonds; for spades and clubs, take a little chocolate, with a little sweet oil upon a marble, rub it till it is fine and bright; if you chuse the suit to be in hearts, you must place the ace of spades first, then the seven of hearts, the ace of clubs, the ace of hearts, and the two and three of hearts; if in diamonds, the same as hearts; but if you chuse the suits in black, then place the ace of spades, the two of spades, the ace of clubs, and the three, four, and five of spades; do the same in clubs; observe that the two black aces are always trumps in any suits; pour a little Lisbon wine into the dish, and send it up.

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346 the monasteries—which relieved poverty for the love of God—and the worldly harshness of a poor-law, will not endure inspection. The monasteries, which had been the support of 'valiant beggary,' had long before transferred to the nation the maintenance of the impotent and the deserving; and the resumption of an abused trust was no more than the natural consequence of their dishonesty. I have already discussed the penal clauses of this Act, and I need not enter again upon that much questioned subject. Never, however, at any period, were the labouring classes in England more generously protected than in the reign of Henry VIII.; never did any Government strain the power of legislation more resolutely in their favour; and, I suppose, they would not themselves object to the re-enactment of Henry's penalties against dishonesty, if they might have with them the shelter of Henry's laws.

The session was drawing to an end. At the close of it, the Government gave one more proof of their goodwill towards any portion of the Church establishment which showed signs of being alive. Duns Scotus being disposed of in Bocardo, the idle residents being driven away, or compelled to employ themselves, and the professors' lectures having recovered their energy, there were hopes of good from Oxford and Cambridge; and the King conceded for them what the Pope had never conceded, when the power rested with the See of Rome; he remitted formally by statute the tenths and first-fruits,


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1536.] which the colleges had paid in common, with all other Church corporations. 'His Majesty is conscious,' says the Act which was passed on this occasion, that the enforcing of the payment of first-fruits against the Universities 'may prejudice learning, and cause the students to give their minds to other things, which might not be acceptable to God;' and 'he has conceived such hearty love and tender affection to the continuance of honest and virtuous living, and of the arts and sciences (wherewith it hath pleased Almighty God abundantly to endow his Highness), as that his Grace cannot compare the same to any law, constitution, or statute; nor tolerate any such ordinance, though the commodity and benefit thereof should never so much redound to his own profit or pleasure, if it may hinder the advancement and setting forth of the lively word of God, wherewith his people must be fed; or if it may imperil the knowledge of such other good letters as in Christian realms is expedient to be learned. He has therefore—(for that the students should the more gladly bend their wits to the attaining of learning, and, before all things, the learning of the wholesome doctrines of Almighty God, and the three tongues, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, which be requisite for the understanding of Scripture)—thought it convenient' to exonerate the Universities from the payment of first-fruits for ever.

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348 Lower House is known to us only as an abstraction. The debates are lost; and the details of its proceedings are visible only in faint transient gleams. We have an epitome of two sessions in the Lords' journals; but even this partial assistance fails us with the Commons; and the Lords in this matter were a body of secondary moment. The Lords had ceased to be the leaders of the English people; they existed as an ornament rather than a power; and under the direction of the council they followed as the stream drew them, when individually, if they had so dared, they would have chosen a far other course. The work was done by the Commons; by them the first move was made; by them and the King the campaign was carried through to victory. And this one body of men, dim as they now seem to us, who assembled on the wreck of the administration of Wolsey, had commenced and had concluded a revolution which had reversed the foundations of the State. They found England in dependency upon a foreign power; they left it a free nation. They found it under the despotism of a Church establishment saturated with disease; and they had bound the hands of that establishment; they had laid it down under the knife, and carved away its putrid members; and stripping off its Nessus robe of splendour and power, they had awakened in it some forced remembrance of its higher calling. The elements of a far deeper change were seething; a change, not in the disposition of outward authority, but in the beliefs and convictions which touched the life of the soul. This was yet to come; and the work so far was but


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Put in cold water twelve large apples, set them on a slow fire, and when soft put them on a hair sieve, skin them, and put the pulp in a bason; beat the whites of twelve eggs into a froth; sift half a pound of double refined sugar, and strew it in eggs; beat the pulp of your apples to a strong froth, and beat them all together till they are like a stiff snow; then lay it on a china dish, heaped as high as you can, and set round green knots of paste, in imitation of Chinese rails, stick a sprig of myrtle in the dish, and serve it up.

Bruise a pint and an half of raspberries, put them through a sieve, pound half a pound of fine sugar, and sweeten them; boil a spoonful of orange flower water two or three minutes; take a pint and an half of cream and boil it; stir it till cold, and when the pulp is cold, stir them both together till they are well mixed, then put them in cups or glasses. Gooseberry fool may be made in the same manner, only using milk instead of cream, and putting in three yolks of eggs to a quart of milk; keep stirring it whilst boiling, and till it is cold: the quantity of gooseberries must be one quart. SYRUPS.


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1536.] the initial step or prelude leading up to the more solemn struggle. Yet where the enemy who is to be conquered is strong, not in vital force, but in the prestige of authority, and in the enchanted defences of superstition, those truly win the battle who strike the first blow, who deprive the idol of its terrors by daring to defy it.


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HE first act of the great drama appeared to have closed. No further changes were for the present in contemplation. The Church was re-established under its altered constitution; and the Parliament had been dissolved under the impression that it would be unnecessary to summon another for an indefinite time. Within four weeks of the dissolution, writs were issued for a fresh election, under the pressure of a misfortune which is alike calamitous, under whatever aspect we regard it; and which blotted the Reformation with a black and frightful stain. The guilt must rest where it is due; but under any hypothesis, guilt there was, dark, mysterious, and most miserable.

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Take a gallon of soft water, put it into an earthen pan, and throw in as many rose leaves as will soak it up; cover them close, set them on a slow fire, and when they begin to simmer take them off and let them stand til next day; strain them, set the liquor on the fire, and when it boils put in as many rose buds as will soak it up; let it stand till the next day, and strain it off again; repeat this, day after day, till there is not above a pint and a half of water left; put this into a long pipkin proper to make your syrup in; set it on fire, when it boils put in a pound and an half of sugar, scum it, let it boil, and when it is cold bottle and keep it for use.

Infuse three pounds of damask rose leaves in a gallon of warm water in a well glazed earthen pot, with a narrow mouth, for eight hours, which stop so close that none of the virtue may exhale; when they infused so long, heat the water again, squeezed them out, and put in three pounds more of rose leaves to infuse for eight hours, press them out very hard; then to every quart of this infusion add four pounds of fine sugar, and boil it to a syrup; when it is cold, bottle it and cork them tight.

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 A VISION OF GOLD

a lone stream, rolling down Through valleys green, by ranges brown Of hills that bear no name, The dawn's full blush in crimson flakes Is traced on palest blue, as breaks The morn in Orient flame.

I see—whence comes that eager gaze? Why rein the steed, in wild amaze? The water's hue is gold! Golden its wavelets foam and glide, Through tenderest green to ocean-tide The fairy streamlet rolled.

"Forward, 'Hope!' forward! truest steed, Of tireless hoof and desert speed, Up the weird water bound, Till, echoing far and sounding deep, I hear old Ocean's hoarse voice sweep O'er this enchanted ground?"

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of the most pleasing and prominent traits of the Maori character seems to be their hospitality. All authorities agree on this. My own observations would have led me to the same conclusion. At every village or native resort we have visited, we have had ample evidence that they are a hospitable people. The chief edifice in each village is the wharepuni, literally the common sleeping-place. It is generally adorned with much carved work of the usual grotesque character. The inmates, which may include half the village, guests, dogs, and even pigs and fowls, lie on either side of a mud passage, each human individual, at any rate, on his or her separate raupo mat, and each enveloped in his or her blanket. Old men and maidens, young men and matrons, alike woo the embraces of Morpheus, indiscriminately mixed and

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 The sea!—wild fancy! Many a mile Of changeful Nature's frown and smile Ere stand we on the shore. And, yet! that murmur, hoarse and deep, None save the ocean-surges keep? It is—"the cradles' roar!"

Onward! we pass the grassy hill, Around the base the waters still Shimmer in golden foam; O wanderer of the voiceless wild, Of this far southern land the child, How changed thy quiet home!

For, close as bees in countless hive, Like emmet hosts that earnest strive, Swarmed, toiled, a vast, strange crowd: Haggard each worker's features seem, Bright, fever-bright, each eye's wild gleam, Nor cry, nor accent loud.

But each man dug, or rocked, or bore, As if salvation with the ore Of the mine-monarch lay. Gold strung each arm to giant might, Gold flashed before each aching sight, Gold turned the night to day.

Where Eblis reigns o'er boundless gloom, And, in his halls of endless doom Lost souls for ever roam, They wander (says the Eastern tale), Nor ever startles moan or wail Despair's eternal home.

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 huddled together. This, of course, is not conducive to a high standard of either morality or cleanliness. It is well that, according to all the accounts recently of the most credible observers, that things are improving in this respect. Of recent years there has been a marked departure from most of the more objectionable old native customs. Both immorality and drunkenness are much less common than they were. We saw quite enough, however, to convince us that there was yet much room for improvement in both these respects. In most villages there always seems to be a tangi, or feast, in course of proceeding. These may be held at any time. They may be occasions of joy or sorrow. They are invariably a part of all funeral rites, and are held as may be dictated by the financial circumstances of the giver of the feast. Food is supplied in profusion to all comers, and gifts given in such unstinted measure that frequently the giver and his family have to endure actual privation for subsequent months, to make up for the extravagance of the outlay.

Recent years have seen a much more cordial friendliness to Europeans engendered than formerly existed. In the north many road and other contracts for public works are now taken up and faithfully carried through by natives. Round the vicinity of Napier and Wanganui, Taranaki, and other centres, partnerships have been formed between Maoris and white settlers; and farms, sheep-runs, saw-mills, and other industries are carried on jointly. The old native dress is giving

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 place to the perhaps less graceful habiliments of modern civilization. The men affect English fashions not only in boots, ties, coats, and dress generally, but in the cut of their whiskers, and their fondness for billiards, horse-racing, whisky, and other so-called luxuries. We saw dozens of Maoris at Napier in their buggies, springcarts, and vehicles of all sorts. A tall belltopper, surmounting a grizzly tattooed visage is quite a common sight in Auckland or Napier.

The Napier natives were much more pleasant-looking, and bore a more well-to-do air than those of Auckland and farther north. At Napier we saw a substantial farmer-looking Maori purchase for 15s., several hideous masses of stale stingaree or ray fish. It was fly-blown and far advanced in decomposition in parts, and smelt abominably, yet he filled a great sack with the disgusting carrion, and we were told by the vendor that he sold tons of such rank stuff every week to the inland Maoris, and that they liked their fish as some Europeans like their game—rather "high."

This foul feeding is one prolific cause of disease amongst them. Another one is their foolish disregard of common precautions against changes of temperature. During the day they dress in European costume; but in the evening at the whare, they revert to the scanty drapery of savage life, and sit bare-headed and bare-footed round the fires, and often get a chill.

At Wairoa we saw a whare, in which about forty of all sexes and ages sleep every night.

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Take of coltsfoot six ounces, maiden hair two ounces, hyssop one ounce, liquorice-root one ounce; boil them in two quarts of spring water till one fourth is consumed; then strain it, and put to the liquor two pounds of fine powder sugar; clarify it with the whites of eggs, and boil it till it is nearly as thick as honey.

Take six drachms of the balsam of tolu, and boil it in twenty ounces of spring water till it is half consumed, taking care not to scum it; then add twenty ounces of the best refined sugar, make it to a syrup without further boiling, and when it is cold strain it off.

Boil half an ounce of pearl barley in three several waters, strain off the last water, and when it is settled, take three ounces of it and two ounces of tolu; let it simmer till almost a pint is wasted, and put in two pounds and an half of sugar, boiling it gently to a syrup of what thickness you please, and when almost cold strain it.

Take the clear juice of mulberries, to each quart of juice put one pound of white sugar, and make it into a syrup over a slow fire.

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 No. V.

In the Name of Almighty God. Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary, The Chief of the Executive Power of the French Republic, His Majesty the King of Italy, His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans, have judged it necessary to assemble their Representatives in Conference at London, in order to come to an understanding, in a spirit of concord, with regard to the revision of the stipulations of the Treaty concluded at Paris on the 30th March, 1856, relative to the navigation of the Black Sea, as well as to that of the Danube; being desirous, at the same time, to insure in those regions new facilities for the development of the commercial activity of all nations, the High Contracting Parties have resolved to conclude a Treaty, and have for that purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:—

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Granville George Earl Granville, &c., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia, the Sieur Albert, Count of Bernstorff-Stintenburg, &c., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Imperial and Royal Majesty to Her Britannic Majesty, &c.;

His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary, the Sieur Rudolph Count


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 Less silent scarce than that pale host These toiled, as if each moment lost Were the red life-drop spilt; While, heavy, rough, and darkly bright, In every shape, rolled to the light Man's hope, and pride, and guilt.

All ranks, all ages! Every land Had sent its conscripts forth, to stand In the gold-seekers' rank: The stalwart bushman's sinewy limb, The pale-faced son of trade—e'en him Who knew the fetters' clank. 'Tis night: her jewelled mantle fills The busy valley, the dun hills, 'Tis a battle host's repose! A thousand watch-fires redly gleam, While ceaseless fusillades would seem To warn approaching foes.

The night is older. On the sward Stretched, I behold the heavens broad, When—a Shape rises dim, Then, clearer, fuller, I descry, By the swart brow, the star-bright eye, The Gnome-king's presence grim!

He stands upon a time-worn block; His dark form shades the snowy rock As cypress marble tomb: Nor fierce yet wild and sad his mien, His cloud-black tresses wave and stream, His deep tones break the gloom.

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 Son of a tribe accursed, of those Whose greed has broken our repose Of the long ages dead, Think ye, for nought our ancient race Leaves olden haunts, the sacred place Of toils for ever fled?

List while I tell of days to come, When men shall wish the hammers dumb That ring so ceaseless now; That every arm were palsy-tied, Nor ever wet on grey hillside Was the gold-seeker's brow.

I see the old world's human tide Set southward on the ocean wide. I see a wood of masts, While crime or want, disease or death, With each sigh of the north-wind's breath, He on this fair shore casts.

I see the murderer's barrel gleam, I hear the victim's hopeless scream Ring through these crimeless wastes; While each base son of elder lands Each witless dastard, in vast bands To the gold-city hastes.

Disease shall claim her ready toll, Flushed vice and brutal crime the dole Of life shall ne'er deny; Danger and death shall stalk your streets, While staggering idiocy greets The horror-stricken eye!

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 All men shall roll in the gold mire— The height, the depth of man's desire— Till come the famine years; Then all the land shall curse the day When first they rifled the dull clay, With deep remorseful tears.

Fell want shall wake to fearful life The fettered demons. Civil strife Rears high a gory hand! I see a blood-splashed barricade, While dimly lights the twilight glade The soldier's flashing brand.

But thou, son of the forest free! Thou art not, wert not foe to me, Frank tamer of the wild! Thou hast not sought the sunless home Where darkly delves the toiling Gnome, The mid-earth's swarthy child.

Then, be thou ever, as of yore, A dweller in the woods, and o'er Fresh plains thy herds shall roam. Join not the vain and reckless crowd Who swell the city's pageant proud, But prize thy forest home."

He said: and, with an eldritch scream, The Gnome-king vanished—and my dream: Dawn's waking hour returned; Yet still the wild tones echoed clear, For many a day in reason's ear, And my heart inly burned.

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 Every cranny is shut up. Two fires burn on the earthen floor. The sleeping-room is shared with the domestic animals and vermin-infested pets of the settlement. Every mouth in this huddling human hive holds a pipe. You can imagine the atmosphere. You can imagine the effect on even the hardiest constitution, of a change from this reeking pest-house to the cold crisp air of a New Zealand winter night. No wonder pulmonary diseases and malignant fevers annually claim so many victims. It seems to be pretty certain that the race is decreasing, though not so rapidly as is generally asserted.

A circular has recently been issued by the Defence Minister, the Hon. J. Ballance, urging on the chiefs and headmen to use their influence to alter this mode of life, and to bring about salutary reforms in the sanitary conditions of the pahs, and with especial reference to greater cleanliness in the selection and preparation of food. This circular has already had a beneficial effect. At Waitotara, even as I write, preparations are being made by the local tribes to hold a great tangi to welcome a distinguished visitor in the person of Tito Kowaru. He was the great fighting chief of the war of 1867, but he is now perambulating the coast country with a large following, preaching peace and goodwill to the pakeha, i.e. white man. As a result of Mr. Ballance's circular, strange innovations are being made in the projected feast. A cup, saucer, spoon, knife, fork, and plate have been provided for each

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Rh them, and add fresh flowers to the water, letting the water be warm when you put them in; let them stand close covered till next day, strain it off, and with an equal quantity of sugar boil it to a syrup.

Take one pound of fresh pickled violets, boil five half pints of soft water, and pour it over the violets; let it stand close covered in a well glazed earthen vessel for twenty-four hours, and dissolve in it twice its own weight of white sugar, so as to make a syrup without boiling.

Pick the violets from the greens, and sift them clean; then to every four ounces of violets add half a pint of water and one pound of coarse sugar; first take the water and put into it half the sugar; set it over the fire, clarify and scum it well; beat your violets well in a mortar, and infuse them in the clarified syrup for some time, minding the syrup is not too hot when you put in the violets; when they have infused a while strain them, and preserve some of the juice in another vessel, and let it stand by; put in the rest of the sugar, set it again on the fire, scum it and keep it stirring; when it has boiled softly some time, put in the rest of the juice, and one drop of the juice of lemon; set it once more, for a short time on the fire and when cold put it up for use.

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by the far west-waters, On the sea-land of the South, Untombed the bones of a white man lay, Slowly crumbling to kindred clay— Sad prayer from Death's mute mouth!

Alone, far from his people, The sun of his life went down. A cry for help? No time—not a prayer: As red blood splashed thro' riven hair, His soul rose to Heaven's throne.

Ah! well for those felon hands Which the strong man foully slew, The cry from the Cross when our Saviour died "Father, forgive"—as they pierced His side— " For they know not what they do."

They have souls, say the teachers Hereafter, the same as we: If so, it is hid from human grace By blood-writ crimes of savage race So deep, that we cannot see.

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 Fear than love is far stronger: The cruel have seldom to rue: The neck is bowed 'neath the heavy heel, Love's covenant with Death they seal; "For they know not what they do."

This Dead, by the far sun-down, This man whom they idly slew, Was lover and friend to those who had slain With him all human love, like Cain; But "they know not what they do."

'Twixt laws Divine and human To judge, if we only knew, When the blood is hot, to part wrong from right, When to forgive and when to smite Foes who "know not what they do."

The wronger and wronged shall meet For judgment, to die, or live; And the heathen shall cry, in anguish fell, At sight of the Bottomless Pit of Hell— "We knew not, O Lord! Forgive."

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 visitor, and the cookery will all be after the European fashion. The crockery for the different tribes or hapus will all be of different patterns; and when one tries to recall such a feast in the not very olden time, with its accompaniment of war-dance and possibly sodden or roasted human flesh as the pièce de résistance, one begins to realize somewhat the mighty change which is now apparent in the character as well as in the physical surroundings of the Maoris after twenty years. At a banquet given to the Duke of Edinburgh during his visit, some of the big chiefs were seen by my informant to go into the dining-hall, and each seizing a goose, or turkey, or other fowl, proceeded to carve it in fine old savage fashion by dismembering the carcase with teeth and fingers, much as a wolf would have done. These very men now are conversant with silk hats, paper collars, Albert chains, and all the conventionalities of the correct diner-out.

The change is infinitely to the advantage of the noble savage, if, with the conventionalities he could only happily discard the vices and follies of our modern civilization.

I had the good fortune to meet a band of real primitive Maoris at Wairoa. They were Hau-Haus from the Urewera country, and their dress, weapons, and manners were as yet unmodified by European contact. Some years ago Government, for some service or other, had granted the Ureweras a sum of 5000l., and traders were attracted to the wild and almost inaccessible mountain

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 them clean, and cut the white from the red; to a quart of flowers put two quarts of spring water, let it stand for two days in a cold place, and after boil it till it comes to a quart; strain it off, and put in half a pound of double refined sugar, and boil it up again for three or four minutes; pour it into a china bowl, let it stand to cool, and when it is quite cold scum it, put it into bottles, cork them well, and tie them down with leather.

Clip your gillyflowers, sprinkle them with fair water, put them into an earthen pot, stop them very close, set them in a kettle of boiling water, and let them boil for two hours; then strain out the juice, put a pound and a half of fine sugar to a pint of juice, put it into a preserving-pan, set it on the fire, keeping it stirring till the sugar is all melted, but do not let it boil; then set it by to cool, and bottle it.

Gather your berries in the heat of the day, and set them in an earthen pot in the oven; then squeeze out the juice, and put the juice of one peck of berries to two pounds of Lisbon sugar, and boil them together for a quarter of an hour; let it cool, and bottle it.

Take three quarts of the juice of clarified buckthorn berries, and four pounds of brown sugar; make them into a syrup over a gentle fire, and, while it is warm, mix it with a drachm of the distilled


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 Apponyi, &c., His Ambassador Extraordinary to Her Britannic Majesty, &c.; The Chief of the Executive Power of the French Republic, the Sieur James Victor Albert Duc de Broglie, &c., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic to Her Britannic Majesty, &c.; His Majesty the King of Italy, the Chevalier Charles Cadorna, &c., His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty, &c.; His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the Sieur Philip Baron de Brunnow, &c., His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty, &c.; And His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans, Constanine Musurus Pasha, &c., His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty, &c.; Who, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:—

I. Articles XI, XIII, and XIV of the Treaty of Paris of March 30, 1856, as well as the special Convention concluded between Russia and the Sublime Porte, and annexed to the said Article XIV, are abrogated, and replaced by the following Article.

II. The principle of the closing of the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, such as it has been established by the separate Convention of March 30, 1856 is maintained, with power to His Imperial Majesty the Sultan to open the said Straits in time of peace to the vessels of war of friendly and allied Powers, in case the Sublime Porte should judge it necessary in order to secure the execution of the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris of March 30, 1856.

III. The Black Sea remains open, as heretofore, to the mercantile marine of all nations.

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is Autumn, it is sunset, magic shower of tint and hue; All the west is hung with banners, white with golden, crimson, blue; Drooping folds! far floating, mingling, falling on the river's face; Upturned, placid, silver-mirrored, gazing into endless space.

Faint the breath of eve, low-sighing for bright summer's fading charms; Woodland cries are echoing, chiming with the sounds from distant farms; And the stubble fires are gleaming red athwart the wood's deep shade, While the marsh mist, slowly rising, shrouds the greenery of the glade.

Redly still the day is dying, as if o'er the desert waste, And we pictured camels, Arabs, and the solemn outline traced Of a pillared lonely Fane, clear against the crimson rim, Voiceless, but of empire telling, and the lore of ages dim.

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 country. McRae gave us an amusing account of his first trading trip, the recital of which convinced us of two things, viz. that the Hau-Haus must have been a very simple, primitive people, with a very hazy idea of values of such goods as shawls, ribbons, beads, and gewgaws generally. And also that McRae's ideas of profits, and the utilization of opportunities of making them, were quite up to the very highest proverbial Aberdonian standard.

We were also fortunate enough to meet at Ohinemutu Captain Mair, who commanded the Arawa contingent of natives during the big war. He has been in constant contact, official and friendly both, with the natives here for about twenty years, and there are perhaps not half-a-dozen men in New Zealand who know as much of native life and manners and customs as he does. He has one of the finest and most complete collections of Maori curios extant, and he was good enough to show us some of his latest acquisitions, and to give us much valuable and interesting information on this subject.

Urewera, says Captain Mair, is the Tyrol of New Zealand. It is not very accessible. There are two ways of penetrating the country. One from the coast near Tauranga, the other from the Lake country. The latter route was traversed by Captain Mair during a recent visit. The road is simply the bed of a mountain river called the Horomanga. It may give some idea of the nature of the country, when it is known that the

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 Low the deep voice of the ocean, whispering to the silent strand; Gleam the stars, in silver ripples; stretches broad the milk-white sand; And a long, low bark is lying underneath the island shore Weird and dream-like, darksome, soundless, spell-struck now, and evermore.

Deeper, darker fall the shadows, and the charmed colours wane, Fading, as the fay-gold changes into earth and dross again, Wildfowl stream in swaying files landward to the marshy plain; Louder sound the forest voices and the deep tones of the main.

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 traveller has to cross the bed of this river no less than one hundred and eighty-six times before he reaches the uplands.

The Ureweras are lean, lank, active mountaineers. They know the country as a bushman knows the run on which he was born and bred, and they often make almost incredible journeys even on the darkest nights, threading the most dangerous defiles with all the agility and sure-footedness of a goat. They are industrious, too, and indeed most of the pretty flax mats and bags that one sees exposed for sale in shops and among the Maoris of the plains are made by these mountaineers.

They are very excitable and emotional. Indeed, the Maori race generally are easily moved by any impulse, and tears and laughter are never hard to excite, according as their feelings are touched. It was among the Ureweras that the Hau-Hau fanaticism (a strange jumble of Judaistic and Pagan religious fervour) was developed.

Perhaps the most effective proof of their simple unconventionality was contained in Captain Mair's statement that the women make really good mothers-in-law. They invariably back up the son-in-law in domestic broils.

The women are springy, good-looking, and hardy to a degree.

"Do you think the adoption of European dress has an injurious effect on the health of the Maoris?" we asked.

"Undoubtedly. Especially when they adopt

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 some of the more insane devices of fashion to cramp and distort the human frame, high-heeled boots, for instance."

"I can cite one instance of their hardihood," said the captain. "One woman, during a prolonged and severe march, fell out of the line about nine miles from the destination of her party, for the night. Having given birth to a baby, she walked into the camp the same evening, bearing, in addition to the burden of her newly-born child, a load of firewood, and then she went about her usual work as blithely as if nothing unusual had occurred."

"Similar instances are on record," I said, "among the American Indians, and I have known of like cases among Hindoo coolie women."

"One very strange instance of maternal sympathy," proceeded the captain, "I can vouch for, as it is within my own personal knowledge. One old woman in the Urewera country found herself in milk when her only daughter bore children, and, as the mother could not, this old grandmother suckled her grandchildren herself, and this occurred six times in succession."

"Is it true," asked one of our party, "as I have read in some books, that the Maori women suckle young pigs?"

"A gross libel, sir," says the captain. "An offensive traveller's yarn. I have lived among the Maoris more than most white men, and I never yet heard of a case of the sort, either as regards pigs or any other animal. One doctor who came

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word is "Charge," the meaning "Death," Yet, welcome falls the sound On every ear in the listening host, Whose pennons flutter, zephyr-tossed, That messenger around.

Among them Nolan reins a steed Frost-white with gathered foam, And pale and stern points to the foe, In heavy mass, receding slow— "Charge, comrades, charge them home!"

There rides one with fearless brow, By time and sorrow scarred. For him life knows no tale untold, But empty names, love, hope, and gold,— Cool player of Fate's last card!

Beside him, he whose golden youth Is in its pride and bloom. His thoughts are with a dear old home. Its loved ones, and that other one, And will she mourn his doom?

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Rh distilled oil of cloves dissolved on a lump of sugar, for it will not dissolve in the syrup
 * Note.—Take great care you have the true buckthorn, as there are may spurious one; they may be known by the number of seeds; the genuine buckthorn having four, the alder buckthorn only two, and the cherry buckthorn one.'

Take unset hyssop, coltsfoot flowers, and black maiden hair, of each a handful, and two handfuls of white horehound; boil them in three quarts of water, and when half is boiled away take it off, and let the herbs stand in it till they are quite cold; squeeze the herbs very dry, strain the liquor, and boil it a quarter of an hour; scum it well, and to every pint put in half a pound of white sugar, and boil it, when it becomes a syrup, put it to cool, and bottle it off; do not cork, the bottles, but tie papers over them. This is very good for a cough: take a spoonful night and morning, and one whenever the cough is troublesome.

Take one ounce of conserve of roses, one ounce of brown sugar-candy, and two of raisins of the sun, cleared of their stones; to these add some flower of brimstone, mix them together, and take a spoonful night and morning.

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 Another knows of a sweet fond face That will fade into ashy pale As she hears the tale of that day of tears; And a prayer rises to Him who hears The widow and orphan's wail.

"We die," passed through each warrior's heart, "And vainly, but the care Rests not with us; 'tis ours to show The world, old England, and the foe, What Englishmen can dare."

Then bridle-reins are gathered up, And sabres blaze on high, And as each charger bounds away Doubts flee like ghosts at opening day, And each man joys to die.

St. George! it is a glorious sight A splendid page of war, To mark yon gorgeous, matchless troop, Like some bright falcon, wildly swoop On the sullen prey before.

(loquitur). "Hurrah for the hearts of Englishmen, And the thoroughbred's long stride, As the vibrating, turf-tearing hoof-thunder rolled, 'Twas worth a year of one's life, all told, To have seen our fellows ride!"

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 rice and a few raisins of the sun stoned; let them simmer a quarter of an hour, and make it into a syrup with brown sugar-candy; boil it a little, and then put in four or five spoonfuls of snail water, and give it a second boil; when it is cold bottle it, and take a spoonful night and morning, with three drops of balsam of sulphur put into it.

Take maiden-hair, oak-lungs, and fresh moss, of each a handful; boil these in three pints of spring water till it comes to a quart; strain it out, and put to it six pennyworth of saffron tied up in a rag, adding thereto a pound of brown sugar-candy; boil the liquor up to a syrup, and when cold bottle it. Take a spoonful when the cough is troublesome.

Put an ounce of balsam of tolu into a quart of spring water, and boil them two hours; put in a pound of white sugar candy finely beat, and boil it half an hour longer; take out the balsam, strain the syrup twice through a flannel bag, and when it is cold bottle it. This syrup is also excellent for a cough: take a spoonful at night, and a little whenever your cough is troublesome.

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 But what avails the sabre sweep? There rolls the awful sound, Telling through heart, and limb, and brain, That the cannon mows its ghastly lane, And corses strew the ground.

Ha! Nolan flings his arms apart, And a death-cry rings in air; And see, may Heaven its mercy yield! His charger from a hopeless field Doth a dead rider bear.

The gunners lie by their linstocks dead, While deep on every brow, In the bloody scroll of our island swords, Is the tale of each horseman's dying words, "Our memory is deathless now."

Staggering back goes a broken band, With standards soiled and torn, With gory saddles and reeling steeds, And ranks that are swaying like surging reeds On a wild autumn morn.

Despair has gazed on many a field Won by our fearless race; And well the night wind, sighing low, Knows where, with breast broad to the foe, Is the dead Briton's place.

But never living horsemen rode So near the eternal marge, As those who ran the tilt that day With Death, and bore their lives away From the Balaclava charge.

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me down to the creek bank, Jack, It must be fresher outside; The long hot day is well-nigh done; It's a chance if I see another one; I should like to look on the setting sun, And the water, cool and wide.

We didn't think it would be like this Last week, as we rode together; True mates we've been in this far land For many a year, since Devon's strand We left for these wastes of sun-scorched sand In the blessed English weather.

We left when the leafy lanes were green And the trees met overhead, The rippling brooks ran clear and gay, The air was sweet with the scent of hay, How well I remember the very day And the words my mother said!

We have toiled and striven and fought it out Under the hard blue sky,

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 the Treaty are each represented by a delegate, and which was charged with the designation and execution of the works necessary below Isaktcha, to clear the mouths of the Danube, as well as the neighbouring parts of the Black Sea, from the sands and other impediments which obstruct them, in order to put that part of the river and the said parts of the sea in the best state for navigation, is maintained m its present composition. The duration of that Commission is fixed for a further period of twelve years, counting from April 24, 1871, that is to say, till April 24, 1883, being the term of the redemption of the loan contracted by that Commission, under the guarantee of Great Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, France, Italy, and Turkey.

V. The conditions of the re-assembling of the Riverain Commission, established by Article XVII of the Treaty of Paris of March 30, 1856, shall he fixed by a previous understanding between the Riverain Powers, without prejudice to the clause relative to the three Danubian Principalities; and in so far as any modification of Article XVII of the said Treaty may be involved, this latter shall form the subject of a special Convention between the co-signatory Powers. VI. As the Powers which possess the shores of that part of the Danube where the Cataracts and the Iron Gates offer impediments to navigation reserve to themselves to come to an understanding with the view of removing those impediments, the High Contracting Parties recognize from the present moment their right to levy a provisional tax on vessels of commerce of every flag which may henceforth benefit thereby, until the extinction of the debt contracted for the execution of the works; and they declare Article XV of the Treaty


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 Where the plains glowed red in tremulous light, Where the haunting mirage mocked the sight Of desperate men from morn till night,— And the streams had long been dry.

Where we dug for gold on the mountain-side, Where the ice-fed river ran; In frost and blast, through fire and snow, Where an Englishman could live and go, We've followed our luck through weal and woe, And never asked help from man.

And now it's over, it's hard to die Ere the summer of life is o'er, When the pulse beats high and the limbs are stark, Ere time has printed one warning mark, To quit the light for the unknown dark, And, O God! to see home no more!

No more! no more! I that always vowed That, whether or rich or poor, Whatever the years might bring or change, I would one day stand by the grey old grange, And the children would gather, all shy and strange, As I entered the well-known door.

You will go home to the old place, Jack; Then tell my mother for me, That I thought of the words she used to say, Her looks, her tones, as I dying lay, That I prayed to God, as I used to pray When I knelt beside her knee.

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 here, and who firmly believed the truth of the common rumour, was indeed in danger of coming to serious bodily harm, because he sent to the settlement to try and get a Maori foster-nurse for a little puppy of a favourite breed whose mother had died."

"Talking of pigs," said our punning friend, "we saw a one-eared pig in Wairoa, and we were wondering if it was the result of accident or what?"

"Oh, such a sight is common enough in every Maori village. Indeed you often see pigs quite earless. The dogs tear or gnaw them off. On the coast the most extraordinary pigs may be seen. They would puzzle any naturalist not acquainted with the cause. The hind-quarters are quite contracted and atrophied. They are shrunken away to infantile proportions. You see a great massive head and front, with brawny chest and ample shoulders. A pig, indeed, with a front like 'The Albanian boar,' but with the hind-quarters of a sucking pig. The quaint-looking brute rears up like a giraffe. His spine is at an angle of 45°. At Whakatane I counted sixteen, all in this condition."

"What is the cause?"

"It is caused by their eating karaka berries. The karaka is the New Zealand laurel (Corynocarpus lævigata). These berries contain prussic acid, and seem to act on the lumbar muscles, causing them to become shrivelled up, as I have described."

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Rh to the water a handful of scabious, tormentil, hyssop, agrimony, horehound, maiden-hair, sanicle, and betony; burage, bugloss, rosemary, marigolds, sage, violets, and cowslips, of these a pint each when picked; a pound of raisins of the sun stoned; half a pound of figs cut; a quarter of a pound of dates stoned, and the white skin next the stone taken off; half a pound of green liquorice; caraway seeds, fennel seeds, and aniseeds, of each one ounce; hartshorn, ivy, elecampane roots, of each one ounce; fennel roots, asparagus roots, couchgrass roots, polipodium roots, oak parsley roots, of each one handful; after they are cleaned, bruise the liquorice and seeds, and slice your roots; then put all the ingredients into your barley water, cover them close, and let them boil very softly twelve hours; afterwards strain it, press out the juice, and let it stand twenty-four hours; take the liquor off clear, and add to it half a pint of damask rose water, and half a pint of hyssop water, with a pint of the juice of coltsfoot clarified; a drachm of saffron, three pints of the best virgin honey, and as many pounds of sugar as there are quarts of liquor; boil this an hour and an half, keeping it clean scummed; then bottle it, cork it well, and put it by for use. It is good for an old cough: take three spoonfuls, mixed with the same quantity of sack, night and morning.

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 By the lonely water they made their couch, And the southern night fast fled; They heard the wildfowl splash and cry, They heard the mourning reeds' low sigh, Such was the Bushman's lullaby,— With the dawn his soul was sped.

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on the waters! the glad bird flings The diamond spray from his glittering wings. Old ocean lieth in dreamless sleep, As the slumber of childhood calmly deep, Light falls the stroke of the fisher's oar, As he leaves his cot by the shingly shore; While the young wife's gaze, half sad, half bright, Follows the frail bark's flashing flight.

Noon on the waters! O rustling breeze, Sweet stealer 'mid old forest trees, Wilt thou not thy sweet whisper keep Nigh him who journeys the shadeless deep? The wanderer dreams of the shadowy dell, And the green-turfed, fairy-haunted well, While the shafts of the noon-king's merciless might Mingle day with sorrow, and death with light.

Night on the waters! murmuring hoarse, The vexed deep threatens the bold bark's course, The thunder-growl and the tempest moan Sound like spirits that watch for the dying groan. The storm-fiend sweeps o'er the starless waste, And the unchained blasts to the gathering haste; Man alone, unshaken, his course retains, While the elements combat and chaos reigns.

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Why should I be twenty-three? What are the virtues they can see Just about to bloom in me In the magical year of twenty-three? Does a maiden, fair and free, Get prudent just at twenty-three? Whatever can the reason be That they want a girl just twenty-three?

Dignified matron, whoever you be, Would not twenty-two do for thee? Would twenty-one be shown to the door, And twenty told to come no more? Nineteen, perhaps, would hardly be fit, Eighteen strikes one as rather a chit. Why must you search o'er land and sea For the golden age of twenty-three?

Still the years glide on—for you and for me, We're nearer, or farther from, twenty-three.

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Take four ounces of marsh-mallow roots, grass roots, asparagus roots, liquorice, and raisins stoned, of each half an ounce; the tops of marsh-mallows, pellitory, pimpernel, saxifras, plantain, maiden-hair, white and black, of each one handful; red sisars one ounce; bruise all these and boil them in three quarts of water till it comes to two; then put to it four pounds of white sugar to make it a syrup, and clarify every pint with the white of an egg, or isinglass.

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1. Pragâpati brooded over the worlds, and from them thus brooded on he squeezed out the essences, Agni (fire) from the earth, Vâyu (air) from the sky, Âditya (the sun) from heaven.

2. He brooded over these three deities, and from them thus brooded on he squeezed out the essences, the Rik verses from Agni, the Yagus verses from Vâyu, the Sâman verses from Âditya.

3. He brooded over the threefold knowledge (the three Vedas), and from it thus brooded on he squeezed out the essences, the sacred interjection Bhûs from the Rik verses, the sacred interjection Bhuvas from the Yagus verses, the sacred interjection Svar from the Sâman verses.

4. If the sacrifice is injured from the Rig-veda side, let him offer a libation in the Gârhapatya fire, saying, Bhûh, Svâha! Thus does he bind together and heal, by means of the essence and the power of the Rik verses themselves, whatever break the Rik sacrifice may have suffered.

5. If the sacrifice is injured from the Yagur-veda side, let him offer a libation in the Dakshina fire, saying, Bhuvah, Svâhâ! Thus does he bind together and heal, by means of the essence and the power of the Yagus verses themselves, whatever break the Yagus sacrifice may have suffered. 6. If the sacrifice is injured by the Sâma-veda side, let him offer a libation in the Âhavanîya fire, saying, Svah, Svâhâ! Thus does he bind together and heal, by means of the essence and the power of the Sâman verses themselves, whatever break the Sâman sacrifice may have suffered.


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Rh set the juice before the sun or fire to settle, and by that means clarify it; to every four ounces of juice take a pound of sugar boiled into a syrup with spring water; if the putting in the juice of the quinces should check the boiling of the syrup too much, give it a little boiling till it becomes pearled, then take it off the fire, and when cold put it into bottles, and cork them tight.

Pare and slice your citrons thin, lay them in a china bowl with layers of fine sugar; the next day pour off the liquor into a glass, and clarify it over a gentle fire.

Infuse peach blossoms in as much hot water as will cover them, let them stand in balnao, or sand twenty-four hours, covered close; strain out the flowers from, the liquor, and put in fresh flowers; let them stand to infuse as before, strain them out, and to the liquor put fresh peach blossoms, a third time, and if you please, a fourth time; then to every pound of your infusion add two pounds of double refined sugar, and set it in sand or balnao: this makes a syrup which will keep for use.

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8. Thus does one bind together and heal any break in the sacrifice by means of (the Vyâhritis or sacrificial interjections which are) the essence and strength of the three worlds, of the deities, and of the threefold knowledge. That sacrifice is healed in which there is a Brahman priest who knows this.

9. That sacrifice is inclined towards the north (in the right way) in which there is a Brahman priest who knows this. And with regard to such a Brahman priest there is the following Gâthâ : 'Wherever it falls back, thither the man goes,'— viz. the Brahman only, as one of the Ritvig priests. 'He saves the Kurus as a mare' (viz. a Brahman priest who


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 over the islands, has a peculiar effect on cattle or sheep partaking of it. It induces sudden and violent vertigo, partial paralysis, and if taken in any quantity will kill the animal who eats it. A shrub, with a whitish leaf, called the paper plant, is also plentiful hereabouts, and horses who eat of it ofttimes die from the effects.

"There are few deformities among the natives, are there not?" we ask.

"Very few, indeed. Scrofula sometimes has its victims, and is induced by eating rotten maize."

During the whole of our trip we only saw one hunchbacked native.

As we were leaving Ohinemutu we were spectators of a most whimsical scene. It would have made the gloomiest anchorite laugh. Ranged in a row in the middle of the street before the hotel we saw five native Roman Catholic priests. They were bareheaded, and deep emotion of some sort or another was depicted on their countenances. It might have been indigestion, but it looked like woe. The verandah of the hotel was crowded by a miscellaneous horde of semi-civilized savages, and these now began a slow procession, and one by one proceeded solemnly but methodically to rub noses with the five reverend fathers. Many tears fell, but not a word was spoken. Doubtless there was pathos in the tearful silent farewell, but the nose rubbing was too much for our gravity; it was really too ludicrous. It was such a scene as could only be witnessed in Maoriland: the poor flock affectionately rubbing noses with their

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 pounds of sugar over the fire with a little water, boil it till it cracks and sparkles, then put in your cherry juice, and boil them together till they acquire the consistence of syrup.

According to the time you intend keeping your syrup, it is necessary to put more or less sugar. To keep apricot syrup from one season to another, the proportion will be two pounds of sugar to a pound of fruit: stone a pound of ripe apricots, peel the kernels and apricots, and cut them into little bites; put two pounds of sugar into a saucepan with a glass of water, and boil it to the same height as for the cherries; then put in the apricots with their kernels, and boil them together over a moderate fire, till the syrup will extend into a thread between your fingers without breaking, and strain it through a sieve.

Having cut the apricots and kernels, as before, put them upon the fire with a glass of water, and boil them till they are reduced to a marmalade; put them into a sieve and strain off all the juice, let it settle, and strain it again through a napkin; add the juice to the sugar, and let it boil to the consistence of a strong syrup.

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 respected shepherds. I have seen many a goodbye, but never one like this.

The women folk were not permitted to participate in the nasal osculation. The more modern, if less effusive, hand-shaking was alone vouchsafed to them. They gave vent to their feelings, however, by joining in a wild and noisy saltatory [sic] measure in the verandah, accompanied by hoarse shouts, snapping of fingers, barking of dogs, and the crack of whips and rattle of wheels as we rolled away from Kelly's hospitable abode and bade a reluctant adieu to the Hot Lakes and their many marvels.

The drive back through the bush, where we loaded the coach with the most beautiful mosses and ferns; the cheerful chat with Harry; the first glimpse of snow on the far distant battlements of Ruapehu and Tongariro, all, all might be dilated on if the reader could but share the raptures of the writer; but alas! at secondhand, earth's brightest joys are apt to pall somewhat, and the most vivid and graphic narrative cannot bring up the sensations which make recollections hallowed, and cause the flush of pleasure to mount the cheek and brow, as memory recalls the gladness and joy which have gone, never again, perhaps, to be renewed.

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Rh juice settle, pour it clear off, and to a gill take a pound of sugar; boil it to the same degree as for the syrup of cherries; and then put in the juice of the apples; let them boil together till the syrup will extend to a thread between your fingers, without easily breaking.

Syrup of lemons is not usually made till wanted for use: when you have occasion for it, put half a pound of sugar into a saucepan, with a small glass of water; make it boil and skim it, and let it continue to boil till it will extend into a thread between the fingers, which breaks and forms a drop upon the fingers; then put in the juice of a small lemon, let it boil up a few times, and use it.

Put an ounce of the leaves of maiden-hair for a moment into boiling water; take them out and infuse them at least twelve hours upon hot embers, and then strain them through a sieve: put a pound of sugar into a saucepan with a good glass of water, boil it to the same degree as for the syrup of violets, and put in your capillaire or maiden-hair water, not suffering it to boil; take it off the fire as soon as it is mingled with the sugar; put it into an earthen pan, close covered, and set it during three days over hot embers, keeping the heat as equal as you can, and not too violent: when the syrup will extend into a long thread between your fingers, put it into bottles, taking care not to cork them till the syrup is quite cold.

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Rh markable instance, perhaps, I could give, of the changes that have taken place in twenty years' time:—

"The ceremony at Te Awamutu was a pleasing contrast to the scene enacted within three miles of that spot during this very month one-and-twenty years ago. Early in April, when Cameron and Carey were out, word was brought that some three or four hundred Maoris were fortifying a position at Orakau. General Carey at once attacked them with 1200 men. They repelled several assaults, baffled the artillery fire with bundles of fern, compelled our people to proceed by sap, and annoyed them terribly during the process. Before the attack they had declared proudly that they would fight 'for ever, and ever, and ever.' Want of water, failing ammunition, a reinforcement of 400 British, and the slaughter wrought by shells and handgrenades at last making the position untenable, they marched out through a gap in the investing line left open for the artillery fire.

"'They were in a solid column,' wrote an eyewitness, 'the women, the children, and the great chiefs in the centre, and they marched out as cool and steady as if they were going to church.' A flanking fire galled them as they marched, a swamp lay between them and the Punui River, where was safety. They lost heavily, but many reserved the last of their ammunition for the swamp. They fought their way through with undaunted resolution, and brought away an unconquerable remnant. Half their number had fallen.

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 "General Carey said, in his despatch, 'It is impossible not to admire the heroic courage and devotion of the natives in defending themselves so long against overwhelming numbers. Surrounded closely on all sides, cut off from their supply of water, and deprived of all hope of succour, they resolutely held their ground for more than two days, and did not abandon their position until the sap had reached the ditch of their last entrenchment.'

"It was one of the finest deeds in New Zealand story. The man who commanded against us in this heroic fight was Rewi, who turned the first sod of the Northern Grand Trunk Railway the other day, within the view of the ground of the great exploit. The gathering was not so great in 1885 as in 1864. But its result will be greater and better. The whirligig of time has given us a most romantic contrast."

It is sad to reflect that one by one the gallant old fighting chiefs are fading away. The links that bound the present age of bustle and progress to the old era of early settlement are snapping fast, and soon it will be quite a rarity to see a tattooed Maori at all. Not long since another of the old celebrities died at the Kaik, Otago Heads. This was an old chief named Waitota, or, as he was more familiarly called, New Zealand Jack. He had reached the ripe age of ninety-two.

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 quite a traveller in his day, had seen a great deal of the world, and altogether led a most eventful life. He was born in the Nelson district, and always held high rank amongst the natives. On one occasion he was taken prisoner during a war between the South and North Island natives, and was then conveyed to the Bay of Islands. After his escape from captivity, he shipped on board an American whaler, and sailed in her to the United States. Then returning again to New Zealand, Waitota joined an English ship and made a voyage to London. He then traded between that port and China for a time, and ultimately joined the ship John Wickliffe which brought the first settlers to Otago under the late Captain Cargill. Waitota was really a wonderful old fellow, gifted with a splendid memory, and a fluent tongue; he could tell one the most interesting stories about the early history of various parts of the colony, and his graphic description of life among the Maoris in olden times was invariably realistic and vivid in the extreme. And so, one after another of the old tribal chiefs are passing away, and with them many a legend and ancient tradition that it would be well to have preserved.

After I had written this chapter I came across a curious document which is of peculiar interest as showing what some of the more powerful and observant chiefs themselves think of the surrival [sic] of their race. It is a reply from Tuteao Manihera, dated from Kawhia in response to the circular letter of the native minister, Mr. Ballance, before

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To half a pound of sweet almonds add two ounces of the four cold seeds, and half an ounce of bitter almonds; blanch the bitter almonds in boiling water, and as you do them throw them into cold water; when they are drained, put them into a mortar with the cold seeds, and pound the whole together till it is very fine; as you beat it, to prevent it from turning to oil, put in from time to time half a spoonful of cold water; afterwards mix it with a full gill of warm water, and let it infuse upon a slow fire for three hours; strain it through a coarse napkin, squeezing it hard with a wooden spoon that the powder of the almonds may pass; then take a pound of sugar, and boil it in the same manner as for the syrup of violets, and finish it on the embers as directed for the capillaire.

Cut and wash a large red cabbage, put it into a stew-pan and boil it in water three or four hours, and till there remains no more than a pint of liquor; put the cabbage into a sieve, squeezing it till you have expressed all the juice; let it settle, and pour it off clear; then put a pound of Narbonne honey into a saucepan, with a glass of water; let it boil, skimming it often; when the honey is very clear put in the cabbage juice, and boil them together till of the consistence of syrup, like the preceding.

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 alluded to:—"Friend, salutations to you. I have received your circular letter pointing out how disease could be averted and the means of preserving health among the native people of New Zealand. Your advice is good. Friend, listen to this. According to the observation made by the Maori people as to the decay of their own people, it is found that formerly, in the days of our ancestors, the natives mostly died of old age. Their whares, their clothing, their food, were very bad. When they slept at night, they used fire to keep them warm, and in the day they basked in the sun, its heat serving them as clothing, and the people never died off. But the arrival of the Europeans to these islands brought disease amongst them, and two complaints made their appearance, namely, chest complaint and cough. From that time the numbers of natives began to decline. Subsequently, another disease called measles, and now fever has come, and rheumatism. Among other causes which have been discovered by the Maoris is that they have been neglected by the ministers, for the Maoris have a reverence for sacred things. In former days, when the chief of any tribe died, before that evil happened, his approaching death would have been known to all by the flash of lightning and the roar of thunder rolling along the mountain-tops of his own district. No matter where the chief was dying, they always knew, and would always say that such-and-such a chief was dying, because that the thunder and lightning were in such-and-such a place. Friend, the

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 food and clothing are now both very good, but the Maoris are dying off rapidly. This is what I have to say to you:—If you think well of it, let all vessels that come here be inspected, and if any kind of sickness be found on board, let them be ordered to go away, so that we may not catch the sickness. That is all. I leave it to you to judge whether it is right or wrong. Enough.
 * "Your loving friend.
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 Oft, as I sit over my five o'clock tea, I think, did she get her? age twenty-three! When friends are cold and unkind to me, I think there's a refuge when twenty-three. On my birthday I'll write, unknown friend, to thee, Exclaiming, " Here, take me, I'm twenty-three!"

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is beautiful yet, with her wondrous hair And eyes that are stormy with fitful light, The delicate hues of brow and cheek Are unmarred all, rose-clear and bright; That matchless frame yet holds at bay The crouching bloodhounds, Remorse, Decay.

There is no fear in her great dark eyes — No hope, no love, no care, Stately and proud she looks around With a fierce, defiant stare; Wild words deform her reckless speech, Her laugh has a sadness tears never reach.

Whom should she fear on earth? Can fate One direr torment lend To her few little years of glitter and gloom With the sad old story to end, When the spectres of Loneliness, Want, and Pain Shall arise one night with Death in their train?

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 I see in a vision a woman like her Trip down an orchard slope, With rosy prattlers that shout a name In tones of rapture and hope; While the yeoman, gazing at children and wife, Thanks God for the pride and joy of his life. Whose conscience is heavy with this dark guilt? Who pays at the final day For a wasted body, a murdered soul, And how shall he answer, I say, For her outlawed years, her early doom, And despair—despair—beyond the tomb?

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the old tower they stand at bay, Where the Moslem fought of old; True to their race, in that sad day Their lives are dearly sold.

They are but three; a woman fair, A boy of fearless brow, He, whom she vowed to love is there— God help her! then and now.

With fiercer leaguer never did Those rugged stones resound, As the swarthy yelling masses swayed The time-worn keep around.

Our death-doomed brothers fired fast, Our sister loaded well; With each rifle-crack a spirit passed; By scores the rebels fell.

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 Though corses choke the narrow way, Still swarms the demon hive; Like a tolling bell each heart will say "We ne'er go forth alive!"

Undaunted still—the leaden rain Slacks not one moment's space— With a crashing bullet through his brain, The boy drops on his face!

With outstretched arms, with death-clutched hands, His mother's darling lies, No more, till rent the grave's dark bands, To glad her loving eyes.

Gone the last hope! faint gleam of light— Death stalks before their eyes— While yells and screams of wild delight From the frenzied crowd arise.

O God of mercy! can it be? It is a hideous dream— No!—nearer rolls the human sea, Arms flash, and eyeballs gleam.

He thinks of her, pale, tender, fair— To nameless tortures given, Gore-stained and soiled the bright brown hair— His very soul is riven.

He lifts the weapon. Did he think Of a happy summer time— Of the village meadow—river brink, Of the merry wedding chime?

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 of Paris of 1856 to be inapplicable to that part of the river for a space of time necessary for the repayment of the debt in question.

VII. All the works and establishments of every kind created by the European Commission in execution of the Treaty of Paris of 1856, or of the present Treaty, shall continue to enjoy the same neutrality which has hitherto protected them, and which shall be equally respected for the future, under all circumstances, by the High Contracting Parties, The benefits of the immunities which result therefrom shall extend to the whole administrative and engineering staff of the Commission. It is, however, well understood that the provisions of this Article shall in no way affect the right of the Sublime Porte to send, as heretofore, its vessels of war into the Danube in its character of territorial Power.

VIII. The High Contracting Parties renew and confirm all the stipulations of the Treaty of March 30, 1856, as well as of its annexes, which are not annulled or modified by the present Treaty IX. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London in the term of six weeks, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.

Done at London, the thirteenth day of the month of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

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title: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 15


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 16

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 16


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 17

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 17


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 18

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 18


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 19

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 19


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 20

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 20


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 21

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 21


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 22

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Chapter 22


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Ballaarat in 1851


text: Old Melbourne Memories/The Death of Welford


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Sunset in the South


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Balaclava

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Balaclava


text: Old Melbourne Memories/The Bushman's Lullaby


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Morning

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Morning


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Wanted

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Wanted


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Perdita

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Perdita


text: Old Melbourne Memories/Priez pour Elle

title: Old Melbourne Memories/Priez pour Elle


text:
Nocturne (Coates)

 * Coates, Florence Earle (1907), "Nocturne" in Harper's Monthly Magazine (November 1907).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1909), "Nocturne" in Lyrics of Life (1909).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "Nocturne" in Poems II.

title: Nocturne (Coates)


text:
His Face

 * Coates, Florence Earle (1911), "His Face" in Harper's Monthly Magazine (February 1911).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1912), "His Face" in The Unconquered Air, and Other Poems (1912).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "His Face" in Poems II.

title: His Face


text:
Wanted

 * Wanted, a poem by Rolf Boldrewood
 * Wanted, a poem by Josiah Gilbert Holland

title: Wanted


text: Template:New texts/2012/08

title: Template:New texts/2012/08


text:
Perdita (Coates)

 * Coates, Florence Earle (1889), "Perdita" in The Century Magazine (December 1889).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1898), "Perdita" in Poems (1898).
 * Coates, Florence Earle (1916), "Perdita" in Poems I.

title: Perdita (Coates)


text:
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 And when we have wakened the lust of a foe,

To draw him by flight toward our bullies we go,

Till, 'ware of strange smoke stealing nearer, he flies—

Or our bullies close in for to make him good prize.

So, when we have spied on the path of their host,

One flieth to carry that word to the coast;

And, lest by false doubling they turn and go free,

One lieth behind them to follow and see.

Anon we return, being gathered again,

Across the sad valleys all drabbled with rain—

Across the grey ridges all crispèd and curled—

To join the long dance round the curve of the world.

The bitter salt spindrift: the sun-glare likewise:

The moon-track a-quiver bewilders our eyes,

Where, linking and lifting, our sisters we hail

'Twixt wrench of cross-surges or plunge of head-gale.

As maidens awaiting the bride to come forth

Make play with light jestings and wit of no worth,

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