words; but from that could make out that he was telling me what had occurred since I had seen him in the Interior twelve months ago; and really, though I did not understand him fully, he must have carefully related the most trifling incidents, from the time he was speaking. I watched an opportunity, while he paused, to introduce a subject that might shorten his discourse, but after two or three attempts, was unsuccessful, till at length, by good chance, an English book lay on the table, which was a real treat, preferable even to a dinner. After the honest man's prologue, which would not admit of interruption, even by an importunate native youth, who occasionally