their home,
resignation to the will of the Almighty, loyalty to each other, and
hospitality. Their vices are avarice, contempt for women, and drunkenness.
Their love of country and home is carried to an extent, rivalling, if not
exceeding, that of the Swiss. The Breton not only loves the village where
he was born, but he loves the field of his fathers, the hearth and the
clock of his home, even the bed on which he was born, and on which he
hopes to close his eyes. The conscript and sailor are often known to die
of grief when away from their native land. Brittany possesses for its
children an inconceivable attraction, and there is no country in the world
where man is more attached to his native soil.

"O landes! o forets! pierres sombres et hautes,
Bois qui couvrez nos champs, mers qui battez nos cotes,
Villages ou les morts errent avec les vents,
Bretagne, d'ou vient l'amour de tes enfants?" --BRIZEUX.

The Bretons are brave soldiers and good sailors; their disposition is
hasty and violent, and even ferocious in anger. When the people of Nantes
rose up in rebellion against Duke Francis, his brother-in-law, the Comte
du Foix, sent to pacify them, said to him on his return from his mission,
"J'aimerais mieux etre prince d'un million de sangliers que de tel peuple
que sont vos Bretons"--Brittany has always been the theatre of great
virtues and great crimes.

On Sunday we went to the Welsh Baptist Chapel, to hear Mr. Jenkins preach
in the Breton language. He has been there thirty years zealously labouring
among the peasants, to convert whom he was sent by the Welsh Baptist
Missionary Society. From his thorough knowledge of the French and Breton
languages, he is eminently fitted for the task. He travels about the
surrounding country preaching, and establishing schools, and has revised
the Breton(9) translation of the New Testament for the Society, and
circulated, by means of colporteurs, from eight to nine thousand Bibles,
besides above 100,000 tracts. The task of acquiring the Breton language is
less difficult for a Welshman, for the similarity between them is so great
that the two people are able to make themselves understood to each other.
The labours of Mr. Jenkins have lately awakened the attention of the
Breton Roman Catholic clergy, who have publicly denounced him from their
altars, but without causing him to slacken in the good work he has
undertaken. Persecuted by a tyrannical priesthood, who