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death as a punishment for his late offence. Thistoo was the general opinion of the people, andwas the subject of their conversation for a longtime afterwards, contributing to spread a con-siderable gloom throughout the garrison. Pa-lavali died about half an hour after he wasbrought home.

Finow already began to grow tired of thewar: it was a kind of conflict not suited to hisgenius, he loved rather a few hard fought en-gagements and a speedy conquest. The enemyshewed no disposition to come forth from theirstrong hold and attack him ; and he had foundby experience, that even the guns produced nosensible effect upon their fortification, situatedupon an eminence, and defended by walls ofclay*. He heartily wished for a peace, but hedid not choose that his wish should be known,lest it should be attributed to fear or any otherunworthy motive; in short, he wanted to bringabout a peace, without being thought to wishfor it; and the difficulty was to accomplish this.

* Mr. Mariner could easily have devised a method to setthe enemy’s fortress on fire; but he considered Toe Oomoo’scause quite as just as that of Finow, and although the latterwas his friend and benefactor, yet he had more than halfassisted in the assassination of a man of admirable character(Toobo Nulia) who was also Mr. Mariner’s friend; besides,he did not choose to be the means of dealing out destructionupon a number of innocent women and children.