ball if fired in an oblique direction; ears immediately behind the eyes, and can also be tightly closed at pleasure. The nasal opening can likewise be closed at will, and when the animal inspires; they are depressed and elevated when it expires.

The lower jaw is articulated not under, but behind the back part of the skull, by which arrangement, the animal is capable of elevating the head and upper jaw, or.depressing the lower at pleasure; this is a most happy fixture, and accounts for the popular belief that the Crocodile throws up the upper jaw; it does indeed throw it up, but the whole cranium goes with it.The Crocodile's legs are comparatively short and come out from its sides, so that in the natural position, its head is horizontal to the body and but triflingly raised above the ground, and requires considerable effort to raise the head sufficiently to allow the mouth to be opened by depressing the lower jaw. By fixing the lower jaw they can bring the upper one and head to an almost right angle with the body. The whole body emits a musky odor, which is secreted principally around the neck and fore legs. They can hardly be said to possess a tongue, if we except an elastic cartilaginous substance which arises from the back part of the mouth below, and when elevated closes the whole swallow, which seems to be its only use.-Africa's Luminary.

ANOTHER MISSIONARY FALLEN!-It is with feelings of sincere regret that we announce the death of the Rev. Mr. ALWARD, missionary to the Kroos, from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in the United States.

Mr. ALWARD died recently at Cape Palmas: we presume (for we have not yet heard the particulars) of fever.

It will be recollected that Mr. ALWARD accompanied Rev. Messrs. PINNEY and CANFIELD to this country a little over a year ago for the purpose of exploring Liberia, and fixing upon the most eligible unoccupied missionary field; that he returned with them to the U S., reported favorably of Africa as missionary ground, and particularly of the Kroo Country, which is a little north of Cape Palmas; that he was married, and with his lady, in company with his fellow-laborers, the Rev. Mr. CANFIELD and lady, returned to Africa, in the Rudolph Groning, about three months since.

They touched at Monrovia for a few days and then sailed for Cape Palmas, where they expected to remain and acclimate.

The associations which crowd upon the mind in contemplating the sudden death of this estimable young man, involve every feeling of the heart; and the dispensation of Providence is too deep for mortal intellect to fathom. Cut off in the vigor of youth and health, in the spring of life, just as he had entered upon its devious path; in the beginning too of his ministerial career, and before he had arrived at the field of his evangelical labors, having forsaken all "for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord," and with his bosom companion voluntarily exiled himself to this deepest moral night, to preach salvation to those who are sitting in the region and shadow of death, and to be so soon removed from time into eternity, is a dispensation which we may not complain of, although to us Africa and her cause seems to have sustained a great injury.

We deeply sympathize with the afflicted and bereaved companion, who is so unexpectedly called upon to endure the severest of trials, under the most peculiarly heart-rending circumstances.

To him who has promised to be the widow's God, and "who tempereth the winds to the shorn Lamb," we commend her who hath left home, and country, and friends, for the kingdom of God's sake.—Africa's Luminary.

WE give the following beautiful lines by our gifted Mrs. SIGOURNEY a place in our columns, because we believe every friend of Africa will love not only to read, but also to cherish them in the memory. ASHMUN is a name dear to every friend of Colonization, and will ever be enshrined among their best feelings and most sacred remembrances. To our colonists this name has a double interest. He was their most devoted friend and leader in the darkest hours of their existence. He lives in their hearts, and gives life and interest to many of their social interviews and more public transactions.

BURIAL OF ASHMUN, AT NEW HAVEN, AUGUST, 1828.

BY MRS. SIGOURNEY.

Whence is yon sable bier?

Why move the throng so slow?
Why doth that lonely mother's tear
In bursting anguish flow?

Why is the sleeper laid

To rest in manhood's pride?

How gain'd his cheek such pallid shade?
I ask'd, but none replied.

Then spake the hoarse wave low,

The vexing billow sigh'd,

And blended sounds of bitter wo
Came o'er the echoing tide,
I heard sad Afric mourn
Upon her sultry strand,

A buckler from her bosom torn,
An anchor from her hand.

Beneath her palm trees' shade,
At every cabin-door,

There rose a weeping for the friend

Who must return no more.

Her champion when the blast

Of ruthless war swept by,

Her guardian, when the storm was past,
Her guide to worlds on high.

Rest! wearied form of clay!
Frail, ruin'd temple, rest!

Thou could'st no longer bear the sway

Of an immortal guest;

Where high, yon classic dome,*

Uprears its ancient head,

We give thee welcome to a home,

Amid our noblest dead.

Spirit of power, pass on!

Thy upward wing is free,

Earth may not claim thee for her son,

She hath no charm for thee;

Toil might not bow thee down,

Nor sorrow check thy race,

Nor pleasure steal thy birthright crown,
Go to thine own blest place.

Yale College.

THE AFRICAN REPOSITORY,

AND

COLONIAL JOURNAL.

Published semi-monthly, at $1 50 in advance, when sent by mail, or $200 if not paid till after the expiration of six months, or when delivered to subscribers in cities.

VOL. XVIII.]

WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 1, 1841.

EXPEDITION FOR LIBERIA.

[No. 19.

THE NEXT EXPEDITION FOR LIBERIA WILL SAIL FROM NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ON OR NEAR THE 10TH OF OCTOBER INST.

THIS will probably be the last expedition that we shall send out this year. We therefore call the attention of all persons contemplating going to Liberia to this favorable opportunity. Emigrants who have engaged their passage will please not fail to reach Norfolk by that day, well furnished with all the implements of husbandry, household articles, and cooking utensils necessary to carry with them.

Persons wishing to send goods or packages to Liberia, will please forward them to our agents in Norfolk, Messrs. SOUTTER & BELL. All letters and papers for colonists may be forwarded to them, or to this office. Persons holding money in their hands for the Society, will please remit it as soon as possible.

And we will consider it a special favor if our annual subscribers whose subscriptions fall due about this time, will have the kindness to remember us in this our time of need.

We rely on the liberality of our friends to enable us to get off this expe dition. Many of the persons about to be sent must go soon, to save them from hopeless bondage. Their hearts are set on going to Africa, and who is the person that will not aid them with the means? They are all thrown upon the Society, and at this time, when we are obliged to buy more territory, the burden is greater than we know how to sustain. Who will come soon and strong to our help?

H. B. M. FRIGATE "IRIS" passed here on the morning of the 10th inst. on her way to the Island of Ascension. The Iris is under the command of Captain NOURSE, who is to succeed Captain TUCKER, as Commodore of Her Majesty's squadron on this station.

The Iris has already done good service to the cause of humanity, in an' expedition up the Rio Pongas, in which she destroyed all the slave fac tories in that region.-Liberia Herald.

CHEEVER'S TOUR IN EGYPT-THE SLAVE MARKET IN CAIRO.

CAIRO. A melancholy visit to the slave mart of Cairo marks this day's experience of the depravity and misery of our fallen world. And so much has been said about the Pasha's efforts and intentions to abolish slavery in his dominions, that some little description of the scene to be witnessed in the heart of his capital will have at this time additional interest. The market is deep within the intricacies of the city, in a quarter as black and prisonlike as its purposes. Leaving our donkies in the street, in the care of their squalid drivers, we passed through a dark archway into an irregular, ragged, dirty square, surrounded by cells like dens in a menagerie for wild beasts, and filled with groups of negroes and slave-drivers, men, women and chilren. Most of the captives were young; indeed, I do not recollect to have seen a middle-aged man among them. The first cell we looked into was tenanted by several fine looking Nubian girls modestly dressed, and laughing as if they were happy. Perhaps they thought we had come to buy, and pleased themselves with the hope of belonging to a Frank-a miserable alternative indeed, judging from the Frank population of Cairo. Is it not the case, all the world over, that foreign masters are more despotic than native ones?

In the next den, a young girl was on her knees with a sort of stone basin before her, in which, by rubbing with another stone as large as a brick, she was grinding corn to make into bread. Another sat by her side, looking like a moping idiot, with arms of such prodigious length, and so slender, that she might easily have been taken for a baboon. In another cell there were three or four bright little negro boys, gaily dressed in white jacket and trowsers, to allure purchasers. I asked the price? It was about eight hundred piastres, or forty dollars. Some of these very boys may possibly be the future rulers, of Egypt. It would not be much more remarkable than the elevation of Mehemet Ali.

The middle of the square exhibited the most painfully disgusting spectacle I ever witnessed in any collection of the degraded forms of human beings. There seemed to be several distinct races, some of them very little elevated in their appearance above the brutes. Chains there were none, nor were they needed to render the spectacle more appalling. Some of these beings were almost entirely naked, and with the united effect of tatooing, exposure to a burning sun, and disease superadded, the skin in some cases looked like that of a rhinoceros, while the hair, plaited and turned flat from the top of the head over the forehead and temples, looked as if it had been dropped in some mixture of dirt and tar, and formed into sticks. The features of these wretched beings in most cases were ugly almost beyond description, and they were principally women, and were employed in dressing each other's hair; or sat looking vacantly around them. Their masters, or keepers, appeared to be reclining against the walls, without the least mark of interest in the scene before them.

The square of this slave market is surrounded by arches which, like pillars, or a colonade with recesses about a court, support a second story. This story consisted of a sort of platform terminated by other cells, tenanted, like those below, by slaves. Some were to be seen still higher, like monkeys, looking down as from the tops of the houses upon their fellow-prisoners beneath. On this second platform I passed a group where stood one man with the air of a captive prince, in attitude and with a countenance which would have made a subject for a painter. Beside him there were two or three more youthful companions, perhaps his brothers and sisters, with the like expression of silent and deep melancholy.

They wore some golden ornaments upon their persons, the only instance of such a custom.

In this assemblage, above and below, some of the groups consisted of fine-looking, intelligent, well-formed negroes, but many of them were a species of the human race such as I had never seen, and more degraded. than any thing in human shape I had ever imagined. The Afrites and Gauls of the oriental mind must have had their prototypes in some such realities. What a transformation is yet to be effected by the Gospel in that heart of Africa, from whence these wretched beings are transported! * * In journeying up to Thebes, after this, we met with many boat-loads of captives appointed to the same destination, and sometimes gangs or encampments of them on shore, presenting the same spectacle of misery and degradation.

We saw no white slaves of any kind in the market. Mr WILKINSON has stated the price of slaves in Egypt as follows: black slaves, boys 25 to 50 dollars; girls 40 to 50; eunuchs 50 to 75; Abyssinian boys 35 to 50; white boys (Mamlocks) 100 to 220. Yours truly, G. B. C.

WE make the following extract from an article in the Liberia Herald, and transfer it to our columns to show what are their impressions in regard to their duty, and also to show how they can write in regard to that duty: "LORD WHAT WILT THOU HAVE ME TO DO?"

THESE are the words of the astonished and counfounded SAUL of Tarsus, as he journeyed from Jerusalem to Damascus, with authority from the chief Priests, to bind all, both men and women, that he found calling upon the name of Jesus.

A spirited persecution had been carried on for a long time, against the Church and disciples of Christ. The fell purposes of the opposers of Christianity, now made their appearance, not in distinct avowal only, but in the position taken and the efforts made. Here was no system of favoritism; no taking one and leaving another, on account of relationship, circumstances or interest. The objects of crusade were undistinguished and undistinguishable But awake fully the demon of persecution against any sect or system, however intentionally or actually unoffending, and the impetuosity of its course, joined with the maddening and blinding influence of its feelings, prevent it from individualizing. And as it stops not to investigate, so it knows neither difference nor compromise. Age, sex and condition lose all claim to pity or a hearing, while reputation and feelings supply it with subjects of revel, as if erected solely for its amusement.

Such was the state of things in Judea at the time of SAUL'S conversion The history of those times, discover on the part of the enemies of the cross of Christ, a most reckless state of moral feeling. On an eminence acquired for him by respectable connexions, and all that was accomplished and erudite in the learning of the age, stood SAUL of Tarsus, a most bitter and relentless persecutor. So long had he been engaged in this work of destruction, and such empire had the spirit of persecution obtained over all the humanizing feelings of his nature, that inspiration informs us he "breathed out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of Christ." St. LUKE tells us, that on his way to Damascus he was visited with a "light from Heaven above the brightness of the sun," and that a voice, spake to him audibly and separately, which convinced him of the error of his ways. It was under these circumstances, that the words quoted at the head of this article, fell from his lips: "Lord what wilt thou have me to do?" The language of this pungently convicted pharisee, upon a survey of his former life, is often that of every sincere christian; and perhaps never