The woman immediately took up his saddle and bridle, and desired him to follow her to her residence, where, after lighting a lamp, she presented him with some broiled fish, spread a mat for him to lie upon, and gave him permission to continue under her roof till morning.  Having performed this humane action, she summoned her female companions to their spinning, which occupied the chief part of the night, while their labour was beguiled by a variety of songs—­one of which was observed by Mr. Park to be an extemporaneous effusion, created by his own adventure.  The air was remarkably sweet and plaintive, and the words were literally the following:—­

    “The winds roared, and the rain fell. 
    The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. 
    He has no mother to bring him milk, no wife to grind him corn.

    Chorus. Let us pity the white man:  no mother has he to bring him
          milk, no wife to grind his corn.”

HUMANITY.

M. Neckar.—­The six companies, or bodies corporate, of the City of Paris, set on foot in the month of October, 1788, a subscription for the relief of the sufferers by a dreadful hail-storm, which had ravaged a part of the country, and totally destroyed all the hopes of the husbandmen.  To the honour of these companies, no less than 50,000 livres were collected in a short time, and placed in the hands of M. Neckar, in order to be applied to the purpose for which they were subscribed.  M. Neckar, on receiving the money, directed it to be sent to the Treasury.  “To the Treasury, my lord!” exclaimed the bearer.  “Yes, sir,” replied M. Neckar; “50,000 livres will do well for the Treasury, from which I drew yesterday 150,000 livres, to be distributed among the same husbandmen whom it is your object to relieve, feeling assured that the Treasury could never suffer from an advance made on the credit of the humanity of Frenchmen.”

Siege of Cajeta.—­The City of Cajeta having rebelled against Alphonsus, was invested by that monarch with a powerful army.  Being sorely distressed for want of provisions, the citizens put forth all their old men, women, and children, and shut the gates upon them.  The king’s ministers advised his majesty not to permit them to pass, but to force them back into the city; by which means he would speedily become master of it.  Alphonsus, however, had too humane a disposition to hearken to counsel, the policy of which rested on driving a helpless multitude into the jaws of famine.  He suffered them to pass unmolested; and when afterwards reproached with the delay which this produced in the siege, he feelingly said, “I had rather be the preserver of one innocent person, than be the master of a hundred Cajetas.”