A summer on the borders of the Caribbean sea.

The free colored American, of whatever shade, sees that his destiny is linked with slavery. Where his face is a crime he can not hope for justice. In the country which enslaves...

It was a mild, showery morning on the 19th of May, 1860, that the brig John Butler, on board of which we were, left her dock at New York and anchored off the Jersey Flats. From...

There is no school-boy but remembers, when tracing the history of Columbus on his perilous voyage across the sea in search of a new world, how eagerly he watched each favorable...

Betwixt midnight and daylight this morning I was lying sleeping and dreaming under the halcyon influences of the lingering land breezes, when suddenly a harmonious sound of part...

“A Yankee is known by the shortness of his stirrups;” so they say here, and I do not know that the criticism is at all too severe. Except Willis and one or two others, who of th...

“Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, no...

When the saffron sunlight lingers on the fleecy edges of these mountain clouds, there is a singular solemnity and peculiar fascination about them which can not be likened to any...

I have scarcely time to inform you of an American settlement really begun. It is near the sea, not far from Porto Plata, on a large _commonality_ or tract of land embracing abou...

“I came across a copy of Rousseau this morning,” said an American scholar, whom we had met before; and he added, “I should not have been more surprised had I seen it drop out of...

I have given you Dominicana as a garden of poetry and the home of legendary song. Well, Hayti is a land of historical facts, and the field of unparalleled glory. Consulting one...

It was towards the close of the year 1788 that the revolutionary spirit which had been fermenting among the French people from the conclusion of the American war first manifeste...

Among the various transactions which had taken place, both in the island and in France, little or no attention had been paid to the condition of the slaves. It is true an abolit...

We omit, as unnecessary to the thread of this narrative, the contentions between the French and English, in consequence of the British invasion, from 1792 to 1798; during which...

The violent and perfidious measures to which Le Clerc had resorted produced an effect diametrically opposed to that which he intended. On the distant mountains, particularly tow...

“Had ancient poets known this little spot-- Poets who formed rich Edens in their thought-- Arcadia’s vales, Calypso’s verdant bowers, Hesperia’s groves, and Tempo’s gayest flowe...

It certainly takes the impatience out of one to travel very much on a sail vessel. The dead certainty of your getting becalmed annihilates even contrary anticipation. But instea...

Thus have I endeavored to seize on whatever might seem to be of importance, and at the same time interesting to such of your readers as desired to have some more general informa...