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From the Boston Pearl.

 SKET c HE'S AND JoURNEYINGs.

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 Iught perhaps to explain the title which T seen fit 10 give the numbers that ] se now and then to present to the g of the Pearl. They are intended

 precisely what the title imports rough sketches, from memory too, of neyng from St. Louis to Santa Fe, ahoagh various parts of New Mexico, tmed by the author in the year 1881. lnot be scrupulous as regards the ar of the sketch. It may be simple FPiOn, and it may sometimes be com an tale. in the present number i 5y present my readers with the for must apologise for the frequent use l

 be obliged to make of the, personal MaI.' It sounds harshly on the ear, Ress-and it is somewhat of an offence a modesty-but necessity has no have often regretted, and I doubt not

 shall always regret, not having pen

 down my first impressions of the

 Nest and its people, when they were

 lnmy mind in all their novelty and fageness. Then, l could have written 'her slight peculiarities, their quaint, \ to an eastern ear. singular expressions

 mat strikes stranger as novel and onmon. Now 1t has all become fami- eme. The slight shades of difference

 become lmperceptible, gone, lost, in laYss filled with things forgotten. The

 as now become a home 10 me. It's FF nave become familiar triends-I am as lney, and their peculiarities are no sa marked-I have lost the power of e'ong them.

 'aaoal troubling the reader by asking lollow me in my devious course slne Ualted States, and without de- ns ne causes which influenced my ac- s fl hun suppose me at St. Louis, in 'ae ot Missouri, in the month of Au-

 io0i' ready to start for Santa Fe- @a company of thirty men. Ii is not pu'pose of these nusnbers to describe quo cltles. They rather incline to '' sui readers into the depth of the sea ra''les-into the sublimiiies of forests \. rae,oa'alns, , and thither let us go.

 s'ea ol. Louis on the 10th of August, ~0A up the march for Independence, western border of the State, where

 ''e to rendezvous, and whence we

 go forth into the desert. Only n. '"ice have felt so free, as l did aln'ag after leaving St. Louis, wher \ ma @eu my horse. and with my gun be- lsrs G :; se, out on my ride for the day. Ebn. freedom of mind, bnoyancy o |rsana' separating and detaching one's sIten a ' .lle world, when for the first time san,',. sp on the broad bosom of our gene. ksaa pa''ufe' he earth, or watch all nigh Irb a ', s'ars' which in their turn seem te (aj aas When for the first time we de |g na, r'a q ea our horse and gun, and feel tha Ek d;a I'',ag 's us, we are independent Eess a saa , men think of the cold and wea ipner 'u VI hunger which we were to en bhe aa. "eli II was for newell it i a as k i,ae,a' 2, family of mankind, that .h book 'nem an unrevealed and a seal impossible for mo, at this day, t