fortnight at Rio de Janeiro; and, omitting to call at St. Thomas' Island as we had expected, our vessels sped their way joyously and rapidly toward our own stern, New-England shore. We came in sight of the rock-bound sandy coast, that first met the eager gaze of the pilgrim fathers in the Mayflower, on the thirteenth of June. We anchored outside of the light for two or three days, and, on the sixteenth of the month, were towed up by a steamer, through the beautiful, and I might almost say, incomparable harbour of Boston.

Now, I thank my star! our voyage around the world is finished, and we are once more in the happiest, dearest land of all the land of our nativity.

"O'er China's garden-fields and peopled floods;

In California's pathless world of woods;

Round Andes' heights, where Winter from his throne,
Looks down in scorn upon the summer zone,

On pure Madeira's vine-robed hills of health;
In Java's swamps of pestilence and wealth;

- Man, through all ages of revolving time,
Unchanging man, in every varying clime,
Deems his own land of every land the pride,
Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside."

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ABSTRACT

OF PLACES AND PASSAGES IN THE CRUISE OF THE COLUMBIA.

The quickest passage of the Columbia was from Rio de Janeiro to Madagascar, 5,244 miles in 31 days.

The deaths among the crew of the Columbia alone, principally by varioloid, dysentery, and scurvy, were 83.