the Society may send Bibles to those who are without them.”.

“I hope then, papa, you will give them something.'

“ I cannot afford to give much at present, my dear.”

“But whither do they mean to send the Bibles ?”

“Into every place where they are needed; but chiefly into the east.”

* Into the east ? did not we receive the Bible from the east ?” 6. Yes." - And do they now need it there?” “ It seems they do.”

" Then it is a debt of gratitude to send it thither. I wish, papa, I had those two guineas, which I gave you sometime since.”

“ You know I have spent them in buying various things for you.”

"But I wish, papa, I had some money. I should be glad to give more than two gui. neas, if I had it to give.”

“ Shall I borrow some money for you of your mama, my dear ?”

“ No, I am afraid I should not be able to repay it.”

The gentleman was so much pleased with his little son, that he gave the Bible Society a donation of five pounds.

QURANG OUTANG. On the 5th of January last, Dr. Abel read in the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, some observations on the skin and some fragments (which had been presented to the society) of an Ourang Outang, which had been killed on the coast of Sumatra ; and which seems to have been the largest and most remark. able animal of this kind, that has ever been seen by Europeans. It appears, that an officer of the ship Mary Anne Sophia was on shore at a place called Ramboon, near Touromon, on the west coast of Sumatra, where he saw the animal in a tree. He as. sembled his people, and followed him to a tree on which he took refuge. His walk was erect and waddling, but not quick; and he was obliged sometimes to hasten his mu

tion with his hands : but with the bough of a tree he impelled himself forward with great speed. When he reached the trees, his strength was shown in a high degree ; for with one spring, he gained a very lofty bough, and bounded from it with the ease of the smaller animals of his kind. Had the land been covered with wood, he would certainly have escaped from his pursuers ; his mode of travelling by bough or tree being as rapid as the progress of a very swift horse. But at Ramboon there are but few trees left in the midst of cultivated fields; and amongst these alone he jumped about, to avoid being taken. He was first shot on a tree; and after having received five balls, his exertion was relaxed, owing no doubt to loss of blood; and the powder and shot being about that time spent, they were obliged to have recourse to other measures for his destruction. One of the first balls probably went through his lungs; for after the wound, he slung himself by his feet from a branch with his head downwards, and allowed the blood to flow from his mouth. On meceiv. ing a wound, he always put his hand over the injured part ; and the human-like agony of his expression had the natural effect of exciting painful feelings among his pursuers. With the help of the peasantry, who seemed as amazed at the sight of the animal, as the crew of the ship, never having seen one be. fore, although living within two days' jour. ney from the vast forests on the island, they cut down the tree on which he was leaning; but the moment he found it falling, he exerted his remaining strength, and gained another tree, and then a third, until he was brought to the ground, and forced to combat his foes, who now gathered very thickly round, and discharged spears against him. The first spear, made of a very strong supple sort of wood, which would have resisted the strength of the strongest man, was broken by him like a carrot; and had he not been at this time in almost a dying state, it was feared that he would have severed the heads of some of the party with equal ease. He fell at length, under the stabs inflicted by the peasantry. The animal is supposed to have travelled some distance to the place where he was killed ; as his legs were covered with mud up to the knees. The hands and feet of the animal had great likeness to human hands and feet; only that the thumbs were smaller in proportion, and nearer the wrist-joint, than the thumbs of human beings. His body was well made; he had a fine broad chest and a narrow waist. His legs were rather short, and his arms very long, though both possessed such sinew and muscle, as left no doubt of their power

and strength. His head was well proportioned with his body; the nose was promi. nent; the eyes large, and the mouth larger than the mouth in man. His chin was fringed from one ear to the other with a shaggy beard, curling on each side, and form. ing altogether an ornamental, rather than a frightful, appendage to his face. The hair of his coat was smooth and glossy when he was first killed ; and his teeth and whole ap. pearance told that he was young, and in the full possession of his powers. He was nearly eight feet high.

The skin was of a dark leaden colour; the hair a brownish red, shaggy and long over the shoulders and flanks.

AWFUL DEATH. The great and blessed God uses various means to call young and old from the ways of sin and misery, to the paths of righteous. ness and peace. He speaks to us loudly by his ministers, and his word; by his proví. dence, and his Spirit. And since he is our ruler now, and will be our judge at last ;" since he is a God of love, who “hates nothing that he has made," but desires to make us happy here, and happy hereafter ; surely it is our bounden duty, and would be our highest interest, to give the most devout and serious attention to whatever message he may send.

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