. Americana. men—all. The second com-mission is only given as a precaution—least I should not return,or lest for some time I should not be with you. Lees surrenderis imminent. It is finished. Ah, my beloved division! Thousands of men have gone totheir eternal home, having given up their lives for the causewhich they knew to be just. The others, alas! heart-broken,crushed in spirit, are left to mourn its loss. Well, it is prac-tically all over now. We have poured out our blood and suffereduntold hardships and privations, all in vain. And now, well, Imust not forget, either, that God reigns. Lif
. Americana. men—all. The second com-mission is only given as a precaution—least I should not return,or lest for some time I should not be with you. Lees surrenderis imminent. It is finished. Ah, my beloved division! Thousands of men have gone totheir eternal home, having given up their lives for the causewhich they knew to be just. The others, alas! heart-broken,crushed in spirit, are left to mourn its loss. Well, it is prac-tically all over now. We have poured out our blood and suffereduntold hardships and privations, all in vain. And now, well, Imust not forget, either, that God reigns. Life is given us forthe performance of duty, and duty performed is happiness. It is finished—the suffering, the horrors, the anguish of theselast hours of struggle. The glorious gift of your love will helpme to bear the memor\^ of them. In this midnight hour I feel thecaressing blessing of your pure spirit as it mingles with is bom. Trwwp^r^^--^ .f 1^ 1:^ fH ^v^, . s.:^>. ^-^ L 4 Flint Castle. Flint Village Traditions of the Earliest Visits of Foreignersto North America By Col. Reuben Thomas Durrett, A. M., , President ofthe Filson Club Vn. THE MADOC TR.^DITION IX EUROPE THE first account of the migration of Prince Madoc tounknown lands was printed in the voyages of Hakluit,first published in London in 1582. Hakluit took it fromthe writings of Gutton Owen, a Welsh bard who flour-ished in the latter part of the Fourteenth and early part of theFifteenth century, and who in turn had copied it from the rec-ords of the abbeys of Conway in North Wales and Strata Flori-da in South Wales. It was the custom of the Welsh at that timeto record important events in their abbeys, as the Egyptians didin their temples. The bards, who were the historians of thetimes, had free access to these abbeys and copied the recordsand repeated or sang them on public occasions. Gutton Owenwas a well-known bard, and of sufficient standing for KingHenry YU to appoint him one of a commis
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