Several Persons Here Told Me, - "You See The Taste For A Savage Life Was Strong In Him, And He Took To The Bush Again Directly." Let Us Pause For A Moment And Consider.

"Miago, when he was landed, had amongst the white people none who would be truly friends of his, - they

Would give him scraps from their table, but the very outcasts of the whites would not have treated him as an equal, - they had no sympathy with him, - he could not have married a white woman, - he had no certain means of subsistence open to him, - he never could have been either a husband or a father, if he had lived apart from his own people; - where, amongst the whites, was he to find one who would have filled for him the place of his black mother, whom he is much attached to? - what white man would have been his brother? - what white woman his sister? He had two courses left open to him, - he could either have renounced all natural ties, and have led a hopeless, joyless life amongst the whites, - ever a servant, - ever an inferior being; - or he could renounce civilization, and return to the friends of his childhood, and to the habits of his youth. He chose the latter course, and I think that I should have done the same."

Such are a few of the disadvantages the natives have to contend with, if they try to assimilate in their life and habits to Europeans, nor is there one here enumerated, of which repeated instances have not come under my own observation.

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