all of Effingham House witnessed the performance of
that ceremony, which, in the English prayer-books, "begins with 'dearly
beloved,' and ends with 'amazement;'" but "the bishops, priests, and
deacons, and all other clergy," who were engaged in altering and
adapting the Book of Common Prayer to the Episcopal church in this
country, finding nothing very amazing in matrimony, have omitted the
short sermon that usually closed its performance, and the form, like
most religious forms, now ends modestly with a simple Amen.

In three days after the murder on board the Avon, the schooner was
driven ashore upon Masafuero in a "norther," a violent gale so called
in that sea, from its uniformly blowing from the northward; and of the
eight on board, seven perished. The wretched survivor, after suffering
every thing but death from starvation, escaped in a whaler to the main,
was recognised, identified as one of Benavidas' gang, and shot before he
had been on shore two hours.

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