y prone,
The tinted fishes glancing o'er his breast:
One, caught by floating hair, rocked daintily
On the reed-cradle woven by kind Death.

'The wreck has been,' then said the deep low Voice,
(Than which not Gabriel's did diviner sound,
Or sweeter--when the stern, meek angel spake:
'See that thou worship not! Not me, but God!')

'The wreck has been, yet all things are at peace,
Earth, sea, and sky. The dead, that while we slept
Struggled for life, now sleep and fear no storm:
O'er them let us not weep when God's heaven smiles.'

So we sailed on above the diamond sands,
Bright sea-flowers, and dead faces white and calm,
Till the waves rocked us in the open sea,
And the great sun arose upon the world.

THE EXECUTIONER IN ALGERIA.

Every day, morning and evening, says our widow, 'I see a Moor pass
along the street; all his features beam with kindness and serenity. A
sword, or rather a long yataghan, is slung in his girdle; all the
Arabs salute him with respect, and press forward to kiss his hand.
This man is a _chaouch_ or executioner--an office considered so
honourable in this country, that the person invested with it is
regarded as a special favourite of Heaven, intrusted with the care of
facilitating the path of the true believer from this lower world to
the seventh heaven of Mohammed.--_A Residence in Algeria, by Madame
Prus_.

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CHAMBERS'S POCKET MISCELLANY: forming a LITERARY COMPANION for the
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VOLUME VIII.

To be continued in Monthly Volumes.

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