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 Africa or the parched islands ofthe Line.

 It is not merely in the fierce sunshine, when

 "The pavements are all hisssing hot

 The sky above is brazen; "ff a

 And every head as good as deads

 The sun can set his rays on," tsi .soe that the miseries of hot weather are felt--in. deed it's most exquisite degree of torment is experienced, after the sun has gone down red as the stained target ofa warrior, and the dark atmosphere heated and burning as with some hidden fire, settles down upon us, lifted by no breeze. Sleep at such time is out of the question. Ifexhausted nature sinks for a moment into forgetfulness, tt isnOt slumber --it is not repose-bnt feverish dream of disquietude. 2" rip7

 "You wake from dreams ofpolar ice On which you've been sider, Like fishes dreaming in the sea, t,n And waking in the spider t You start from your broken and uneasy re- yerie to listen to the detestahle music fmus- quetOes, who, taking advantage ofyOur help lessness, have fastened themselves upon you, like blood thirsty vampyres, as they are.- Sleep !-who would think ofsleeping when thousand fends. like these weae roaring in his ears--and thousand poisoned weapons were torturing his body? And then, there Is no chance of destroying your annoyers. You may smite furiously into vacancy, until your l strength is exhausted, but the same fendish music is ringing in your ear, and the same in- struments of cruelty are operating on your limbs. There is no relieE-no hope. It IS al- | most as much as mans life is 'sorth to pass | a night in this manner. At such times we could almost wish ourself cased in the steel habiliments ofthe knights of chivalry. who I Lay down to rest with corslet braOed,

 1 P;Ilowed on buckler cold aud hard,

 Who carved at the meal with gloves Of steel.

 And drank the red wine through helmets hassed" l EAm. Afsast: 4 Tree in faH BEAR-INs.-UndeF this title the Beaufort Gazette says, e Last week some of MT. TuFknett's negroes on New River St. Luke's Parish, while at work in the woods. discovered ( full grown beaFs on the same tree. Me. T. being informed oft, called tO 1 his aid his neighbor DF. Allen. and several gentlemen whom he found at pr. As house, and they succeeded in killing all four.