During this daily increase of spiritual strength, her frame gradually sunk under the pressure of her disease, which resisted every tried means of relief, and finally came to its usual termination; viz. suffocation. Thus closed the mortal career of the youthful Imihie, one of the many thousands of victims to a commerce, which, it is feared, the mercenary will always cling to; in which desperate men will ever be found to hazard; and, even in Africa, tyrants ever be ready to supply the horrid market; (Note Q.) while few, it is to be feared, will, like the poor Imihie, after a series of misery, find a Mrs. Delaney to soothe their sorrows, and point to realms where all tears shall be wiped away, and sorrow and sighing shall flee for ever. To Heaven the Christian negress sent her sighs, In morning vows, and evening sacrifice; She pray'd for blessings to descend on those Who dealt to her the cup of many woes; Thought of her home in Africa forlorn, Yet, while she wept, rejoic'd that she was born: Ennobling virtue fix'd her hopes above, Enlarg'd her heart, and sanctified her love. With lowly steps the path of peace she trod, A happy pilgrim, for she walk'd with God. Montgomery, (adapted.) CHAPTER IX. The spreading palm-tree o'er her grave shall wave, Emblem of bliss eternal! "See on the grave in which she sleeps, The soften'd savage sits and weeps; And the sweet voice of gratitude Oft names her in the desert rude." The Missionary. The infant Samboe, thus bereaved of his suffering mother, was yet too young to feel the full magnitude of his loss; yet his little heart experienced emotions he had no power to utter, when he was told she would never more awake to his call, nor could he feel happy, when, with expressions of joy, he saw the negroes of the plantation remove his "silent mother" to the burial ground, with every demonstration of joy. (Note R.)