Uberto paid the sum; and causing his servant to follow him with a horse and a complete suit of handsome apparel, he returned to the youth, who was working as before, and told him he was free. With his own hands he took off his fetters, and helped him to change his dress, and mount on horseback.

The youth was tempted to think it all a dream, and emotion almost deprived him of the power of returning thanks to his generous benefactor. He was soon convinced, however, of the reality of his good fortune, by sharing the lodging and table of Uberto.

After a stay of some days at Tunis, Uberto departed homeward, accompanied by young Adorno. Uberto kept him some time at his house, treating him with all the respect and affection he could have shown for the son of his dearest friend.

At length, having a safe opportunity of sending him to Genoa, he gave him a faithful servant for a conductor, fitted him out with every convenience, slipped a purse of gold into one hand and a letter into the other, and thus addressed him

"My dear youth, I could with much pleasure detain you longer in my humble mansion, but I feel your impatience to revisit your friends, and I am sensible that it would be cruelty to deprive them longer than necessary of the joy they will feel in recovering you. Deign to accept this provision for your voyage, and deliver this letter to your father. He probably may recollect me, though you are too young to do so. Farewell! I shall not soon forget you, and I hope you will not forget me." Adorno poured out his thanks,

and they parted with many mutual tears and embraces.

The young man had a prosperous voyage home; and the transport with which he was again beheld by his already heart-broken parents may be more easily conceived than described.

After learning that he had been a captive in Tunis-for it was supposed that the ship in which he had sailed had foundered at sea,-the elder Adorno said, "To whom am I indebted for restoring you to my arms?" "This letter," said his son, "will inform you." He opened it and read as follows

"That son of a base mechanic, who told you that one day you might repent the scorn with which you treated him, has the satisfaction of seeing this prediction accomplished. For know, proud noble, that the deliverer of your only son from slavery is the banished Uberto."

Adorno dropped the letter and covered his face with his hands, while his son was praising, in the warmest language of gratitude, the virtues of Uberto, and the truly paternal kindness he had received from him.

As the debt could not be canceled, Adorno resolved if possible to repay it. He made such great efforts with the other nobles, that the sentence pronounced against Uberto was reversed, and full permission given him to return to Genoa. In acquainting him with this event, Adorno expressed his sense of the obligations he lay under to him, admitted the genuine nobleness of his character, and requested his friendship. Uberto returned to his country, and closed his days in peace, with the universal esteem of his fellow-citizens.

Notes. — Genoese and Venetian are derived from the words Genoa and Venice, and may be used either as nouns or adjectives. If nouns, the suffixes ese and ian (an) have the meaning "one belonging to," i. e., an inhabitant of; if adjectives, "belonging or pertaining to."

When used as adjectives, what is the meaning of American, Irish, Chinese, Italian? Name the suffix in each word.

Crowns are Italian coins, each worth about $1.05 in U. S.

money.

Language.—In the fifth paragraph "Belonging to the state of Venice" is a phrase limiting "islands." Its introductory word is "belonging," a participle of the verb "belong," and having the force of an adjective. The phrase is therefore an adjective, or, as it is more commonly called, a participial phrase.

In the participial phrase given above, "belonging" is modified by the prepositional phrase "to the state of Venice," in which the noun "state" is limited by the prepositional phrase "of Venice." Phrases limiting nouns or pronouns are adjectives; all others,

adverbs.

All participles ending in ing, ed, or t, have the force of adjectives and of verbs. When the verb-force is lost, the participle is called a participial adjective.

Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, a French explorer in North America, was born at Rouen, France, in November, 1643. He became a settler in Canada, and about 1669, leaving his trading post at La Chine, above Montreal, he strove to reach China by way of the Ohio, supposing from the reports of Indians that that river flowed into the Pacific.

He made explorations of the country between the Ohio and the lakes, but, when Joliet N and MarquetteN made it evident that the main river, Mississippi, emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, he

conceived a vast project for extending the French power in the lower Mississippi valley, and thence attacking Mexico.

He obtained extensive grants from the French Government, rebuilt Fort Frontenac, established a post above Niagara Falis, and built a small vessel, in which he sailed up the lakes to Green Bay. Thence dispatching his vessel freighted with furs, he proceeded with the rest of the party, in boats and on foot, to the Illinois River, near the head of which he began a post called Fort Crêve Cœur, N and a vessel in which to descend the Mississippi. Not hearing of his vessel on the lakes, he detached Hennepin, with one companion, to ascend the Mississippi from the mouth of the Illinois, and leaving Tonty, with five men, at Fort Crêve Coeur, he returned by land to Canada.

During this period the Iroquois Indians, having left their settlements in the East, suddenly fell upon the tribe of the Illinois Indians. The following graphic account of the engagement, taken from Parkman's "Discovery of the Great West," well illustrates their savage mode of warfare.

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Suddenly the village was awakened from its lethargy as by the crash of a thunderbolt. A Shawanoe, lately here on a visit, had left his Illinois friends to return home. He now re-appeared, crossing the river in hot haste, with the announcement that he had met, on his way, an army of Iroquois approaching to attack them.

All was panic and confusion. The lodges disgorged their frightened inmates; women and children screamed, and startled warriors snatched their weapons. There were less than five hundred of them, for the greater part of the young men had gone to war.

A crowd of excited savages thronged about Tonty and his Frenchmen, already objects of their suspicion, charging them, amid furious gesticulations, with having stirred up their enemies to invade them. Tonty defended himself in broken Illinois, but the savage mob were but half convinced.

They seized the forge and tools and flung them into the river, with all the goods that belonged to the Frenchmen; then, distrusting their power to defend themselves, they manned the wooden canoes which lay in multitudes by the bank, embarked their women and children, and paddled down the stream to that island of dry land in the midst of marshes which La Salle afterward found filled with their deserted huts.

Sixty warriors remained here to guard them, and the rest returned to the village. All night long fires blazed along the shore. The excited warriors greased their bodies, painted their faces, befeathered their heads, sang their war-songs, danced, stamped, yelled, and brandished their hatchets, to work up their courage to face the crisis. The morning came, and with it came the band of Iroquois.

Young warriors had gone out as scouts, and now they returned. They had seen the enemy in the line of forest that bordered the River Aramoni, or Vermilion, and had stealthily reconnoitered them. They were very numerous, and armed for the most part with guns, pistols, and swords. Some had bucklers of wood or rawhide, and some wore those corselets of tough twigs interwoven with cordage, which their fathers had used when fire-arms were unknown.

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The scouts added more, for they declared that they had seen a Jesuit among the Iroquois; nay, that La Salle himself was there, whence it must follow that Tonty and his men were enemies and traitors. The supposed Jesuit was but an Iroquois chief arrayed in a black hat, doublet, and stockings;