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Povages of Francois Peron, the Zoologtst,

 

)JOME years ago, a missionary party dined
Sh} one day at our house. Among the guests
were two natives of the South Seas, who

 

had accompanied their teacher on a voy-
age to England, and who were then itinerating with
him through the provinces. The weather was
very cold, for it was early spring, and the poor
natives of those warm regions suffered from the
chills of our ungenial climate. During the dinner
I watched with curiosity the faces of these re-
formed savages, whose huge mouths and dazzling
teeth reminded me of the terrible fact that they
had been originally cannibals; and it was with some
alarm I saw them introduced by their guardian
to the drawing-room, and left alone with my
mother and myself till the gentlemen should haye
finished their after-dinner business. The first act
of the chief, who was evidently a gentleman hy
nature, was to wave his hand towards the fire.