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becoming heated, rccullcd at lis ,orl


| shivcrCd iato thousand fragments IL


bursting of shells, and with the no;so ~


tiIIcry rapidly discharged. Its path ON
sides was lined by forests, which cr,,.
and shyivcllcd before it like a burniro


Fire would burst out in spots, and bl,,,


riousIy for while, filing the air with o.
ing volumes of fame, and burning c;o1


and then be succeeded by smoke 50 J,.
as to darkcn the sun. 1t was an avlt,
toclc, and all watched it in fear and ~,


ishmcnt. Hours passed thus, and on ,,,,
wider, deeper, and more fiery every lnon.
As it approached the valley where pom,l
body lay, il shot like stream of wafer d..
the declivi,y leading to it, aud prccinh,.
itscl! almost instantancousy y on the illg,
village, buried all but few who had h
sufficient presence Of mind to flee earh
the day, beneath its fiery waves. So a.
den and deep was the stream, that the hon.
blazcd but for moment, and then Law op
whclncd far below the burning torrent q
wild cry of agony arose from its wrctc,
victims and all was over. :'Thc fire.,
the mountain had consumed the bones Of


priest" and the prophecy was accompkb.


The stream soon spent itself in the nb
beneath, and by night all was quiet exec
ing the Kissing and explosion of gasscs VII.
arose from the lurid mass. A few daysv.
devoted to ravaging the country, and
stroying such stragglcrs as had escaped b
the battle and the eruption. So sweep
had been the revenge, and so terrible andr
expected the catastrophe which ovcrwhei
ed their tribes, that the spirits of the sur
vors were broken, and they never againv v
turcd to attack those from whom thcyh
received so severe lesson. Even tot
day, the story of the burning torrent, d
the anger of their goddess Pelc, with the
struction Of their people, is told with aF
ticularity which shows that time ha,
yet dimmcd the recollection of the event


Having completed the work of dcstrud


klana's warriors. rejoicing in his sad
turned their steps homeward BY the I'd
they arrived, all traces Of the inroad Of !
male had disappeared, and tic town presa
ed as cheerful an aspect as before.


Sorrow and suffering still weighed hea
upon julia, and although she occasion.
seemed like her former self, and RECON-,
those about her with terms of cndcarHa
yet those lucid intervals were short, and.
mind would Immediately relapse into st
of entire torgctiuIncss Of those aboutb
and the dreadful scenes through which'
had passed. Her brother was wrung Vi
anguish, as he listened to the almost chu
prattIc of her wandcrings, in which she c
s'antI y spoke of her early home, and at la
seemed to fancy that she still sponed M'
halls of her ancestors. Even the grey b@.
so ailcctionatc to its mistress was rcmcms
ed, nor was her fleet poney forgotten vii
had so frequently borne her in the full D.
of youth over the green pastures of her
theirs patrimony, rivaling the gazcIe
swlitncss. Her memory never recur7'
the Period when misfortune overlook the
in her sickness she lived her childhood o.
again, To Kiana this seemed but as pa
ing illness, which love and care w
soon dlsPcl, and his attentions were redo