LALLA ROOKH had, the night before, been visited by a dream which, in spite of the impending fate of poor HAFED, made her heart more than usually cheerful during the morning, and gave her cheeks all the freshened animation of a flower that the Bidmusk has

just passed over.* She fancied that she was sailing on that Eastern Ocean, where the sea-gipsies, who live for ever on the waterf, enjoy a perpetual summer in

* "A wind which prevails in February, called Bidmusk, from a small and odoriferous flower of that name.". "The wind which blows these flowers commonly lasts till the end of the month."--Le Bruyn.

"The Biajús are of two races: the one is settled on Borneo, and are a rude but warlike and industrious nation, who reckon themselves the original possessors of the island of Borneo. The other is a species of sea-gipsies or itinerant fishermen, who live in small covered boats, and enjoy a perpetual summer on the eastern ocean, shifting to leward from island to island, with the variations of the monsoon. In some of their customs this singular race resemble the natives of the Maldivia islands. The Maldivians annually launch a small bark, loaded with perfumes, gums, flowers, and odoriferous wood, and turn it adrift at the mercy of winds and waves,