while here, by a mysterious course of events, beyond the comprehension of human wisdom to fathom, his long lost child has appeared and is again restored to his fond embrace.

It seems that the lad, before reaching the house of Mr. Mount, was overtaken and kidnapped by a band of Indians, who, in their wanderings, happened to pass that way. In this family he lived, and travelled with them in all their migratory movements, from the time he was captured until the autumn of 1843.

About this time this family visited Albany, New York; and while there this white child was discovered among them. The municipal authorities of the city becoming acquainted with the circumstance, at once caused their arrest, and took measures to compel them to disclose the means by which they became possessed of the child. They were alternately flattered and threatened, but no disclosure could be obtained, as they seemed to submit to any punishment rather than make any communication by which the paternity of the child could be ascertained. They were therefore discharged, and the child very humanely placed in the Orphan Asylum.

Subsequently, in the spring of 1844, M. L. Cowles of Tolland, Mass., being in want of a boy

in his family, was recommended to this place and furnished with this lad, whom he brought home with him to his residence in Tolland.

Dr. Cooley, of Granville, having frequently heard the circumstances under which the child was lost, immediately communicated the intelligence he had obtained respecting this boy to Mr. Marvin, the grandfather of the child, and he, without loss of time, made known the tidings to Mr. Filley, who was then with his friends in Connecticut. From the knowledge thus obtained, Mr. Filley visited Mr. Cowles, in Tolland, with whom the lad then resided.

Although time and exposure had somewhat obliterated the fair features of the youth, yet his personal appearance was the counterpart of the other members of his family. His size, his age, the complexion of his eyes, and hair, and all his prominent features indicated those of his child; and upon appealing to a known scar upon his hand, and examining an unalterable mark in the hair of his head, his identity was fully recognized, and in the joy of his heart he pressed to his bosom his long lost child!

From the story of the boy, it appears that be has constantly resided in the same family, which consisted of four Indians-Paul Pye and Phebe

Ann Pye, his wife, and Martha Ann Pye, their daughter, and Thomas Williams, an inmate of the family. They adopted him as their son, and he was taught, and believed, that Paul and Phebe Ann were his parents, and Martha his sister. He supposed himself an Indian boy, and was not aware of any difference of complexion, or distinction of nature, until his deliverance at Albany. He has an indistinct recollection of attending a school, but when or where he knows not.

This seems to be the only remaining fact in his memory that he can recognize as having transpired prior to his capture; and he does not seem to associate this with any other fact indicative of his home, except that he did not go to school with the Indians.

The first place which he remembers to have visited was Green Bay, the scenery of which he gives a faint though correct description. In travelling to that place they probably either went or returned by water, as he can remember sailing in a steam-boat. He accompanied them in all their wanderings, and was used as a mendicant to supply himself with clothes and the family with food, when their indolence prevented their obtaining them in any other way.

In the summer they made their peregrinations back and forth through Michigan and New York, and sometimes visited Connecticut, and at one period encamped themselves for several weeks in Stonington. In the winter they generally quartered themselves in wigwams in the vicinity of some village, and lived on small game, such as rabbits, skunks, and bullfrogs, the latter of which they considered a rich repast.

Occasionally they made a few baskets, with which they sent William to the nearest grocery to barter for whiskey.

He recollects living near Detroit, Utica, Brothertown, Catskill, and Hudson, and several months at Hillsdale, New York. In all their wanderings, in summer and winter, he travelled barefoot, suffering much from cold, and at all times from hunger and fatigue, but the kindness of his Indian sister, like a second Pochahontas, took unwearied pains to mitigate his sufferings and make his captivity endurable.

Although he cannot recognize his new friends, yet he rejoices that he has found a permanent home in a land of civilization, and all parties render their grateful thanks to the Author of all good for this marvellous dispensation of his providence.

Jamaica is one of the

BETWEEN the two great Continents of North and South America, out on the ocean, are a great number of large and small islands, and these are called the West Indies. largest of these islands. Here, for ages, in its worst forms, slavery cursed the land. But ministers of Christ's merciful and holy religion visited the island, and the gospel drove out the evil spirit-slavery.

One of these ministers thus describes his first view of this magnificent island :

"It is said that Columbus, when he first discovered the Islands of the Western world, was so enraptured with the beauty and magnificence of the scenery as scarcely to be persuaded but that he had reached the fabled regions of romance.