As it were too peregrinate, as I may call it.
—Shakspeare.
The Anglo-American is apt to boast, and not without reason, that his nation may claim a descent more truly honourable2 than that of any other people whose history is to be credited. Whatever might have been the weaknesses of the original colonists3, their virtues4 have rarely been disputed. If they were superstitious6, they were sincerely pious7, and, consequently, honest. The descendants of these simple and single-minded provincials8 have been content to reject the ordinary and artificial means by which honours have been perpetuated9 in families, and have substituted a standard which brings the individual himself to the ordeal10 of the public estimation, paying as little deference11 as may be to those who have gone before him. This forbearance, self-denial, or common sense, or by whatever term it may be thought proper to distinguish the measure, has subjected the nation to the imputation12 of having an ignoble13 origin. Were it worth the enquiry, it would be found that more than a just proportion of the renowned14 names of the mother-country are, at this hour, to be found in her ci-devant colonies; and it is a fact well known to the few who have wasted sufficient time to become the masters of so unimportant a subject, that the direct descendants of many a failing line, which the policy of England has seen fit to sustain by collateral15 supporters, are now discharging the simple duties of citizens in the bosom16 of this republic. The hive has remained stationary17, and they who flutter around the venerable straw are wont18 to claim the empty distinction of antiquity19, regardless alike of the frailty20 of their tenement21 and of the enjoyments22 of the numerous and vigorous swarms23 that are culling24 the fresher sweets of a virgin25 world. But as this is a subject which belongs rather to the politician and historian than to the humble26 narrator of the homebred incidents we are about to reveal, we must confine our reflections to such matters as have an immediate27 relation to the subject of the tale.
Although the citizen of the United States may claim so just an ancestry28, he is far from being exempt29 from the penalties of his fallen race. Like causes are well known to produce like effects. That tribute, which it would seem nations must ever pay, by way of a weary probation30, around the shrine31 of Ceres, before they can be indulged in her fullest favours, is in some measure exacted in America, from the descendant instead of the ancestor. The march of civilisation32 with us, has a strong analogy to that of all coming events, which are known “to cast their shadows before.” The gradations of society, from that state which is called refined to that which approaches as near barbarity as connection with an intelligent people will readily allow, are to be traced from the bosom of the States, where wealth, luxury and the arts are beginning to seat themselves, to those distant, and ever-receding borders which mark the skirts, and announce the approach, of the nation, as moving mists precede the signs of day.
Here, and here only, is to be found that widely spread, though far from numerous class, which may be at all likened to those who have paved the way for the intellectual progress of nations, in the old world. The resemblance between the American borderer and his European prototype is singular, though not always uniform. Both might be called without restraint; the one being above, the other beyond the reach of the law—brave, because they were inured34 to dangers—proud, because they were independent, and vindictive35, because each was the avenger36 of his own wrongs. It would be unjust to the borderer to pursue the parallel much farther. He is irreligious, because he has inherited the knowledge that religion does not exist in forms, and his reason rejects mockery. He is not a knight37, because he has not the power to bestow38 distinctions; and he has not the power, because he is the offspring and not the parent of a system. In what manner these several qualities are exhibited, in some of the most strongly marked of the latter class, will be seen in the course of the ensuing narrative39.
Ishmael Bush had passed the whole of a life of more than fifty years on the skirts of society. He boasted that he had never dwelt where he might not safely fell every tree he could view from his own threshold; that the law had rarely been known to enter his clearing, and that his ears had never willingly admitted the sound of a church bell. His exertions41 seldom exceeded his wants, which were peculiar42 to his class, and rarely failed of being supplied. He had no respect for any learning except that of the leech43; because he was ignorant of the application of any other intelligence than such as met the senses. His deference to this particular branch of science had induced him to listen to the application of a medical man, whose thirst for natural history had led him to the desire of profiting by the migratory44 propensities45 of the squatter46. This gentleman he had cordially received into his family, or rather under his protection, and they had journeyed together, thus far through the prairies, in perfect harmony: Ishmael often felicitating his wife on the possession of a companion, who would be so serviceable in their new abode47, wherever it might chance to be, until the family were thoroughly48 “acclimated.” The pursuits of the naturalist49 frequently led him, however, for days at a time, from the direct line of the route of the squatter, who rarely seemed to have any other guide than the sun. Most men would have deemed themselves fortunate to have been absent on the perilous50 occasion of the Sioux inroad, as was Obed Bat, (or as he was fond of hearing himself called, Battius,) M.D. and fellow of several cis-Atlantic learned societies—the adventurous51 gentleman in question.
Although the sluggish52 nature of Ishmael was not actually awakened53, it was sorely pricked54 by the liberties which had just been taken with his property. He slept, however, for it was the hour he had allotted55 to that refreshment56, and because he knew how impotent any exertions to recover his effects must prove in the darkness of midnight. He also knew the danger of his present situation too well to hazard what was left in pursuit of that which was lost. Much as the inhabitants of the prairies were known to love horses, their attachment57 to many other articles, still in the possession of the travellers, was equally well understood. It was a common artifice58 to scatter59 the herds61, and to profit by the confusion. But Mahtoree had, as it would seem in this particular undervalued the acuteness of the man he had assailed62. The phlegm with which the squatter learned his loss, has already been seen, and it now remains63 to exhibit the results of his more matured determinations.
Though the encampment contained many an eye that was long unclosed, and many an ear that listened greedily to catch the faintest evidence of any new alarm, it lay in deep quiet during the remainder of the night. Silence and fatigue64 finally performed their accustomed offices, and before the morning all but the sentinels were again buried in sleep. How well these indolent watchers discharged their duties, after the assault, has never been known, inasmuch as nothing occurred to confirm or to disprove their subsequent vigilance.
Just as day, however, began to dawn, and a grey light was falling from the heavens, on the dusky objects of the plain, the half startled, anxious, and yet blooming countenance65 of Ellen Wade66 was reared above the confused mass of children, among whom she had clustered on her stolen return to the camp. Arising warily67 she stepped lightly across the recumbent bodies, and proceeded with the same caution to the utmost limits of the defences of Ishmael. Here she listened, as if she doubted the propriety69 of venturing further. The pause was only momentary70, however; and long before the drowsy71 eyes of the sentinel, who overlooked the spot where she stood, had time to catch a glimpse of her active form, it had glided73 along the bottom, and stood on the summit of the nearest eminence74.
Ellen now listened intently anxious to catch some other sound, than the breathing of the morning air, which faintly rustled75 the herbage at her feet. She was about to turn in disappointment from the enquiry, when the tread of human feet making their way through the matted grass met her ear. Springing eagerly forward, she soon beheld76 the outlines of a figure advancing up the eminence, on the side opposite to the camp. She had already uttered the name of Paul, and was beginning to speak in the hurried and eager voice with which female affection is apt to greet a friend, when, drawing back, the disappointed girl closed her salutation by coldly adding—“I did not expect, Doctor, to meet you at this unusual hour.”
“All hours and all seasons are alike, my good Ellen, to the genuine lover of nature,”—returned a small, slightly made, but exceedingly active man, dressed in an odd mixture of cloth and skins, a little past the middle age, and who advanced directly to her side, with the familiarity of an old acquaintance; “and he who does not know how to find things to admire by this grey light, is ignorant of a large portion of the blessings78 he enjoys.”
“Very true,” said Ellen, suddenly recollecting79 the necessity of accounting80 for her own appearance abroad at that unseasonable hour; “I know many who think the earth has a pleasanter look in the night, than when seen by the brightest sunshine.”
“Ah! Their organs of sight must be too convex! But the man who wishes to study the active habits of the feline81 race, or the variety, albinos, must, indeed, be stirring at this hour. I dare say, there are men who prefer even looking at objects by twilight82, for the simple reason, that they see better at that time of the day.”
“And is this the cause why you are so much abroad in the night?”
“I am abroad at night, my good girl, because the earth in its diurnal83 revolutions leaves the light of the sun but half the time on any given meridian84, and because what I have to do cannot be performed in twelve or fifteen consecutive85 hours. Now have I been off two days from the family, in search of a plant, that is known to exist on the tributaries86 of La Platte, without seeing even a blade of grass that is not already enumerated87 and classed.”
“You have been unfortunate, Doctor, but—”
“Unfortunate!” echoed the little man, sideling nigher to his companion, and producing his tablets with an air in which exultation88 struggled, strangely, with an affectation of self-abasement. “No, no, Ellen, I am any thing but unfortunate. Unless, indeed, a man may be so called, whose fortune is made, whose fame may be said to be established for ever, whose name will go down to posterity89 with that of Buffon—Buffon! a mere90 compiler: one who flourishes on the foundation of other men's labours. No; pari passu with Solander, who bought his knowledge with pain and privations!”
“Have you discovered a mine, Doctor Bat?”
“More than a mine; a treasure coined, and fit for instant use, girl.—Listen! I was making the angle necessary to intersect the line of your uncle's march, after my fruitless search, when I heard sounds like the explosion produced by fire arms—”
“Yes,” exclaimed Ellen, eagerly, “we had an alarm—”
“And thought I was lost,” continued the man of science too much bent68 on his own ideas, to understand her interruption. “Little danger of that! I made my own base, knew the length of the perpendicular91 by calculation, and to draw the hypothenuse had nothing to do but to work my angle. I supposed the guns were fired for my benefit, and changed my course for the sounds—not that I think the sense more accurate, or even as accurate as a mathematical calculation, but I feared that some of the children might need my services.”
“They are all happily—”
“Listen,” interrupted the other, already forgetting his affected anxiety for his patients, in the greater importance of the present subject. “I had crossed a large tract92 of prairie—for sound is conveyed far where there is little obstruction—when I heard the trampling93 of feet, as if bisons were beating the earth. Then I caught a distant view of a herd60 of quadrupeds, rushing up and down the swells—animals, which would have still remained unknown and undescribed, had it not been for a most felicitous94 accident! One, and he a noble specimen95 of the whole! was running a little apart from the rest. The herd made an inclination96 in my direction, in which the solitary97 animal coincided, and this brought him within fifty yards of the spot where I stood. I profited by the opportunity, and by the aid of steel and taper98, I wrote his description on the spot. I would have given a thousand dollars, Ellen, for a single shot from the rifle of one of the boys!”
“You carry a pistol, Doctor, why didn't you use it?” said the half inattentive girl, anxiously examining the prairie, but still lingering where she stood, quite willing to be detained.
“Ay, but it carries nothing but the most minute particles of lead, adapted to the destruction of the larger insects and reptiles100. No, I did better than to attempt waging a war, in which I could not be the victor. I recorded the event; noting each particular with the precision necessary to science. You shall hear, Ellen; for you are a good and improving girl, and by retaining what you learn in this way, may yet be of great service to learning, should any accident occur to me. Indeed, my worthy101 Ellen, mine is a pursuit, which has its dangers as well as that of the warrior102. This very night,” he continued, glancing his eye behind him, “this awful night, has the principle of life, itself, been in great danger of extinction103!”
“By what?”
“By the monster I have discovered. It approached me often, and ever as I receded104, it continued to advance. I believe nothing but the little lamp, I carried, was my protector. I kept it between us, whilst I wrote, making it serve the double purpose of luminary105 and shield. But you shall hear the character of the beast, and you may then judge of the risks we promoters of science run in behalf of mankind.”
The naturalist raised his tablets to the heavens, and disposed himself to read as well as he could, by the dim light they yet shed upon the plain; premising with saying—
“Listen, girl, and you shall hear, with what a treasure it has been my happy lot to enrich the pages of natural history!”
“Is it then a creature of your forming?” said Ellen, turning away from her fruitless examination, with a sudden lighting106 of her sprightly107 blue eyes, that showed she knew how to play with the foible of her learned companion.
“Is the power to give life to inanimate matter the gift of man? I would it were! You should speedily see a Historia Naturalis Americana, that would put the sneering108 imitators of the Frenchman, De Buffon, to shame! A great improvement might be made in the formation of all quadrupeds; especially those in which velocity109 is a virtue5. Two of the inferior limbs should be on the principle of the lever; wheels, perhaps, as they are now formed; though I have not yet determined110 whether the improvement might be better applied111 to the anterior112 or posterior members, inasmuch as I am yet to learn whether dragging or shoving requires the greatest muscular exertion40. A natural exudation113 of the animal might assist in overcoming the friction114, and a powerful momentum115 be obtained. But all this is hopeless—at least for the present!”—he added, raising his tablets again to the light, and reading aloud; “Oct. 6, 1805. that's merely the date, which I dare say you know better than I—mem. Quadruped; seen by star-light, and by the aid of a pocket-lamp, in the prairies of North America—see Journal for Latitude116 and Meridian. Genus—unknown; therefore named after the discoverer, and from the happy coincidence of being seen in the evening—Vespertilio Horribilis, Americanus. Dimensions (by estimation)—Greatest length, eleven feet; height, six feet; head, erect117; nostrils118, expansive; eyes, expressive119 and fierce; teeth, serrated and abundant; tail, horizontal, waving, and slightly feline; feet, large and hairy; talons120, long, curvated, dangerous; ears, inconspicuous; horns, elongated121, diverging122, and formidable; colour, plumbeous-ashy, with fiery123 spots; voice, sonorous124, martial125, and appalling126; habits, gregarious128, carnivorous, fierce, and fearless. There,” exclaimed Obed, when he had ended this sententious but comprehensive description, “there is an animal, which will be likely to dispute with the lion his title to be called the king of the beasts!”
“I know not the meaning of all you have said, Doctor Battius,” returned the quick-witted girl, who understood the weakness of the philosopher, and often indulged him with a title he loved so well to hear; “but I shall think it dangerous to venture far from the camp, if such monsters are prowling over the prairies.”
“You may well call it prowling,” returned the naturalist, nestling still closer to her side, and dropping his voice to such low and undignified tones of confidence, as conveyed a meaning still more pointed77 than he had intended. “I have never before experienced such a trial of the nervous system; there was a moment, I acknowledge, when the fortiter in re faltered129 before so terrible an enemy; but the love of natural science bore me up, and brought me off in triumph!”
“You speak a language so different from that we use in Tennessee,” said Ellen, struggling to conceal130 her laughter, “that I hardly know whether I understand your meaning. If I am right, you wish to say you were chicken-hearted.”
“An absurd simile131 drawn132 from an ignorance of the formation of the biped. The heart of a chicken has a just proportion to its other organs, and the domestic fowl133 is, in a state of nature, a gallant134 bird. Ellen,” he added, with a countenance so solemn as to produce an impression on the attentive99 girl, “I was pursued, hunted, and in a danger that I scorn to dwell on—what's that?”
Ellen started; for the earnestness and simple sincerity135 of her companion's manner had produced a certain degree of credulity, even on her buoyant mind. Looking in the direction indicated by the Doctor, she beheld, in fact, a beast coursing over the prairie, and making a straight and rapid approach to the very spot they occupied. The day was not yet sufficiently136 advanced to enable her to distinguish its form and character, though enough was discernible to induce her to imagine it a fierce and savage137 animal.
“It comes! it comes!” exclaimed the Doctor, fumbling138, by a sort of instinct, for his tablets, while he fairly tottered139 on his feet under the powerful efforts he made to maintain his ground. “Now, Ellen, has fortune given me an opportunity to correct the errors made by star-light,—hold,—ashy-plumbeous,—no ears,—horns, excessive.” His voice and hand were both arrested by a roar, or rather a shriek140 from the beast, that was sufficiently terrific to appal127 even a stouter141 heart than that of the naturalist. The cries of the animal passed over the prairie in strange cadences142, and then succeeded a deep and solemn silence, that was only broken by an uncontrolled fit of merriment from the more musical voice of Ellen Wade. In the mean time the naturalist stood like a statue of amazement143, permitting a well-grown ass33, against whose approach he no longer offered his boasted shield of light, to smell about his person, without comment or hinderance.
“It is your own ass,” cried Ellen, the instant she found breath for words; “your own patient, hard working, hack144!”
The Doctor rolled his eyes from the beast to the speaker, and from the speaker to the beast; but gave no audible expression of his wonder.
“Do you refuse to know an animal that has laboured so long in your service?” continued the laughing girl. “A beast, that I have heard you say a thousand times, has served you well, and whom you loved like a brother!”
“Asinus Domesticus!” ejaculated the Doctor, drawing his breath like one who had been near suffocation145. “There is no doubt of the genus; and I will always maintain that the animal is not of the species, equus. This is undeniably Asinus himself, Ellen Wade; but this is not the Vespertilio Horribilis of the prairies! Very different animals, I can assure you, young woman, and differently characterized in every important particular. That, carnivorous,” he continued, glancing his eye at the open page of his tablets; “this, granivorous; habits, fierce, dangerous; habits, patient, abstemious146; ears, inconspicuous; ears, elongated; horns, diverging, &c., horns, none!”
He was interrupted by another burst of merriment from Ellen, which served, in some measure, to recall him to his recollection.
“The image of the Vespertilio was on the retina,” the astounded147 enquirer148 into the secrets of nature observed, in a manner that seemed a little apologetic, “and I was silly enough to mistake my own faithful beast for the monster. Though even now I greatly marvel149 to see this animal running at large!”
Ellen then proceeded to explain the history of the attack and its results. She described, with an accuracy that might have raised suspicions of her own movements in the mind of one less simple than her auditor150, the manner in which the beasts burst out of the encampment, and the headlong speed with which they had dispersed151 themselves over the open plain. Although she forebore to say as much in terms, she so managed as to present before the eyes of her listener the strong probability of his having mistaken the frightened drove for savage beasts, and then terminated her account by a lamentation152 for their loss, and some very natural remarks on the helpless condition in which it had left the family. The naturalist listened in silent wonder, neither interrupting her narrative nor suffering a single exclamation153 of surprise to escape him. The keen-eyed girl, however, saw that as she proceeded, the important leaf was torn from the tablets, in a manner which showed that their owner had got rid of his delusion154 at the same instant. From that moment the world has heard no more of the Vespertilio Horribilis Americanus, and the natural sciences have irretrievably lost an important link in that great animated155 chain which is said to connect earth and heaven, and in which man is thought to be so familiarly complicated with the monkey.
When Dr. Bat was put in full possession of all the circumstances of the inroad, his concern immediately took a different direction. He had left sundry156 folios, and certain boxes well stored with botanical specimens157 and defunct158 animals, under the good keeping of Ishmael, and it immediately struck his acute mind, that marauders as subtle as the Siouxes would never neglect the opportunity to despoil159 him of these treasures. Nothing that Ellen could say to the contrary served to appease160 his apprehensions161, and, consequently, they separated; he to relieve his doubts and fears together, and she to glide72, as swiftly and silently as she had just before passed it, into the still and solitary tent.
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