A TABLE showing the number of Clove Trees and Plants growing in Prince of Quantity of Ground under Cultivation,

Total of large plantations in Pinang.. 25972 64452 64452 20500

Total of 23 small do. Panguluship of Ayer Rajah

Do. 6

do.

do.

Jullutong
Glugore....
Soongy Kluan
Baly Pulow

542 2758 3300 2000 1340 360 1700 600 200 1000 1200 500 85 442 527 1060 600 1000 1600 500

Total number of Clove Trees in Prince of Wales' Island 28739 44040 72779 25161

A TABLE showing the number of Clove Trees and Plants growing in Province Quantity of Ground under Cultivation,

Total number of Clove Trees in Province Wellesley..
Do. of Prince of Wales Island brought down

Total of P. W. Island and Pr. Wellesley, 96 pltns.....

1000 1000

1073 6566 7639 28739 44040 72779 25161

29812 50606 80418 25161

The above Tables were compiled principally from information furnished by the proprietors and agents of the different estates to the Committee of the Pinang

Wales Island, the amount of Gross Value of Produce derived therefrom, and drawn up in October, 1843.

Wellesley, the amount of Gross Value of Produce derived therefrom, and drawn up in October, 1843.

Chamber of Commerce, appointed to draw up a report and estimate of the extent of cultivation in this Settlement.

F. S. BROWN,

Chairman of the Pinang Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture.

SOME ACCOUNT OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND.

THE INDIAN HUNTER.

BY H. W. LONGFELLOW.

WHEN the summer harvest was gather'd in,
And the sheaf of the reaper grew white and thin,
And the ploughshare was in its furrow left,
Where the stubble land had been lately cleft,-
An Indian hunter, with unstrung bow,

Look'd down where the valley lay stretch'd below.

He was a stranger, and all that day

Had been out on the hills, a perilous way;
But the foot of the deer was far and fleet,
And the wolf kept aloof from the hunter's feet,
And bitter feelings pass'd o'er him then,
As he stood by the populous haunts of men.

The winds of autumn were over the woods,
As the sun stole out from their solitudes;
The moss was white on the maple's trunk,
And dead from its arms the pale vine shrunk,
And ripen'd the mellow fruit hung, and red
Were the trees' wither'd leaves around it shed.

The foot of the reaper moved slow on the lawn,
And the sickle cut down the yellow corn;
The mower sung loud by the meadow side,
Where the mists of evening were spreading wide,
And the voice of the herdsman came up the lea,
And the dance went round by the greenwood tree.

Then the hunter turn'd away from that scene,
Where the home of his fathers once had been,
And heard, by the distant and measured stroke,
That the woodman hew'd down the giant oak;
And burning thoughts flash'd o'er his mind
Of the white man's faith, and love unkind.

The moon of the harvest grew high and bright,
As her golden horn pierced the cloud of white;
A footstep was heard in the rustling brake,
Where the beech o'ershadow'd the misty lake,
And a mourning voice and a plunge from shore,
And the hunter was seen on the hills no more.

When years pass'd on, by that still lake side
The fisher look'd down through the silver tide,
And there, on the smooth yellow sand display'd,
A skeleton, wasted and white, was laid;

And 'twas seen, as the waters moved deep and slow,
That the hand was still grasping a hunter's bow.

AUTHOR OF

THE EMIGRANT: A TALE OF AUSTRALIA.

BY W. H. LEIGH, ESQ.

RECONNOITRING VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, CAPE
OF GOOD HOPE;

H. V. P. OF THE AFRICAN INSTITUTION OF PARIS, ETC. ETC.

"GOOD morning, Captain."

"Good morrow, Mr. Blair."

"What's the pace this morning? About six, I fancy?"

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'Why, I should say, maybe half a knot more."

By-the-bye, Captain, who is that delicate, mysterious young lady, who confines herself so strictly to her cabin? May I be informed who and what she is? I am extremely curious upon that matter, and long to know."

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Why, Mr. Blair, I can gratify you so far as this-she was accompanied on board by an elderly gentleman and three young ladies, who wept bitterly during the whole time they remained. The gentleman begged of me to give her every attention in my power, to seek her the best lodgings possible upon my arrival in Australia; and, in the event of her not wishing to remain, my orders are either to bring her back to England, or put her on board any vessel which or whatever she may choose. Her passage is paid, and her maid's also; and the parties who came with her had a coronet upon their carriage. Now, my dear sir, you know quite as much about her as I do."

"Well, but, Captain, is it not mysterious? Is it not wonderful ?" "Very."

"What can that delicate and unprotected flower do in a lone and desolate wilderness?"

"That, sir, is more than I can answer."

"But, Captain-really I'm quite bewildered-is your vessel then not to touch at Sydney?"

"Yes, she is."

"And will she accompany you?"

"6 That, as yet, I cannot say."

"How very strange! But here comes Rennie. Well, Rennie, my worthy, comme vous passe la nuit ?"

"Passablement, je vous remercie. Glorious weather?"