Volume I Part 16 (2/2)

They mimic me now as they sport in their lakes All the past a dim blank? Think of the tireen vines grew over the great ribs of the stranded whale Oh Yillah, little Yillah, has it all cootten? Yet over the atery world have I sought thee: from isle to isle, froone

My prow shall keep kissing the waves, till it kisses the beach at Oroolia Yillah, look up”

Sunk the ghost of Aleema: Sweet Yillah wasCohtfall our Chaood order And with ht tent was lashed in its place; the sail taken up by a reef

My comrades now questioned me, as to my purposes; whether they had been modified by the events of the day I replied that our destination was still the islands to the ard

But fro; so that now no loo as before

As evening ca ht of the hour The rays of the sun, setting behind golden-barred clouds, caht behind a lattice And the low breeze, pervaded with the peculiar balrant as the breath of a bride

Such was the scene; so still and witching that the hand of Yillah in mine seemed no hand, but a touch Visions flitted beforehummed in ht into , far removed froht await us upon any of the shores roundabout But there seeer in the bal a sense of security We had aan canoe, an abundance of fruit

Besides, what cared I now for the green groves and bright shore? Was not Yillah rove? my meadow, s desirable and delightful, the full- pluh: no shore for ht prow headed round toward the vague land of song, sun, and vine: the fabled South

As we glided along, strange Yillah gazed down in the sea, and would fain have had h its depths

But I started dis by Again that phantouilt laid his red hand on hed Was not Yillah ood, I had periled , starting from slumber, my comrades beheld the sun on our beaerly inquired, ”Whither now?” But very briefly I gave theht to the due consideration of afor the island Tedaidee, in place of the land to the ard

At this, they were not displeased But to tell the plain truth, I harbored so about for a while, till I felt more landwardly inclined

But had I not declared to Yillah, that our destination was the fairy isle she spoke of, even Oroolia? Yet that shore was so exceedingly re to reach it in a craft built with hands, so very apparent, that onder I really nourished no thought of it?

So away floated the Charant cloud in the heavens: bound, no one knehither

CHAPTER XLVII Yillah, Jarl, And Saarded this arded them

As Beauty from the Beast, so at first shrank the da e, a reaction soon followed And in accordance with that curious law, by which, under certain conditions, the ugliest th caoblin Whence came he, she cared not; or as his history; or in what manner his fortunes were united to in

Now, as every where woood time ta in his ear, and persuaded him to substitute a vacancy for the bauble in his nose On his part, however, all this was conditional He stipulated for the privilege of restoring both trinkets upon suitable occasions

But if thus gayly the damsel sported with Samoa; how different his emotions toward her? The fate to which she had been destined, and every na about her, appealed to all his native superstitions, which ascribed to beings of her coin When pere; suggesting the likeness of so his tail; crouching abashed before some radiant spirit