No. 4752,-SEPTEMBER 26, 1878.] Goulbourne is able to walk about, although half-a-dozen European women in this still weak. We learn from him that he colony who are married to Chinese, but was not first wounded whilst on the ground, their lot is not so hard as their sisters on but was standing up at the time. Some of the mainland, as they are living under the rascale appear to have been behind him, British rule, and the style of living they and prodded him in the back; he imme- have been accustomed to from childhood is, diately turned round, and was stabbed not yet radically changed. Ladies of tho below the eye. After this be fell down, Bloomer persuasion would perhaps and in attempting to rise was stabbed in the find things more to their mind in the Ce sboulder. He managed to walk, carrying lestial Empire, but to all others we would with him his rifle and bayonet, until met earnestly say "beware."-Communicated. by a European, who perceiving the state ho was in, put him into a ohair, and sant him to the Hospital
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SUPREME COURT.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
26th September, 1878.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Yours do.,
́OBSERVER.
Tus performance of the opera The Grand (Before His Honor Mr Justice Russell) character far superior to that of their in my hand I could have finished him Duchess" last night was very well attanded, notwithstanding that this was the third Tam Tut Po v. Kam Sik Kl and another, tima the Company have produced it hero. $547.84.This was a claim to recover $500, It was honoured with the presence of Mrs with interest and costs, which plaintiff had paid on account of defendant's brother, Bennedsy and most of the leading ladies of it appears that plaintiff had been security the Colony. Unfortunately both Miss May for defendant's brother, who had absconded and the Vernon wore auffering from indis- with $1,000 the property of his employers positions alreunustance which was not
at Singapore. A
Tam Yut Po had paid $500 in settlement without its results upon the performance, of the whole amonet, and defendants had neither of the two leading artistes playing given him a promissory note for this with the accustomed spirit and effect. We have criticised this performance on two previous occasions, and need not therefore refer to it at any length to-day. Mişa Agnes Draeger's violin solo resulted in three encores, one unique performance of hers, partly in harmonies, evidently tickling the fancy of the audience immensely. Miss Clara Stanley made, is before, & charming "Wanda," and gained some well-deserved applause.
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Defendants admitted the debt, and jodg- ment was accordingly entered for the plain. tiff, for whom Me Daunys appeared.
Police Intelligence. (Both Hagistrates Sitting.)
28th September, 1878.
FICKING POCKETS.
LA Han-Tak, a bawker, was sent to months' hard labour for stealing $6 from the pocket of one Li áku, a farmar.
SERIOUS, OHARGE OF ASGAULY.
Defendant denied the charge and said the bruises on the woman were the result of a fall; he never kicked or beat her. All the trouble arose about money, and this tales
James Guy, fireman M. M. S. S. Sindh, Az alarm of fire was given this morning was charged with assaulting one Leung about è past 2 o'clook. The Engines at East Strest, Tal-ping-shan, and breaking Aho, mistress of licensed brothel No. 28 onse procceded Eastward, the direction in the door of a house occupied by one Wong dinated, but by the time they reached No. Ahing in same street. It appears that defendant had some altercation about a 2 Station, Inspector Orley returned with dollar being short weight. This was at the news that the fire was out. It proved length settled, and then defendant pro to have occurred at a mat-shed or house at ceeded to treat in an improper manner Caroline Hill, beyond Mears Jardine's pre- Asing. The mistress of the brothel remen- the woman he was with, named Chow mises, and was soon reduced to ashes, strated with the defendant, and he then
No small dissatisfaction has been ox-est upon her and beat her. pressed at the lack of a proper system of telegraphio communication during and after e are alarm. It is stated that, although this alarm must have been given after the paltry matched was burned down, no notics whatever was given to any of the engines until the eastern point of Wanch! Market was reached. The exercise of a very small amount of ingenuity would be necessary to prevent such disagreeables, and a minimum of discretion to avoid unnecessary alarms, In the present state of public feeling, how. over, a small fire might mean anything;
charge was brought against him,
Mr Francis ordered the defendant to pay Wong blog, the master of the clothes shop, $5, as compensation for the broken door and loss of time in appearing to give evidence, and fined $25, or 1 month's hard labour for the smult.
DESPERADOM.
Flote and Hussam, two Malay seamen belonging to the Siamese bargne Goliat, (Wilder Becket) said that at about 250 were charged as follows P. C. No. 78 p.m. Fosterday he saw about 20 Malays
and struck lat defendant in the mouth
TO-DAY'S FINES.
and it is said that the wires are or have coming down East Street. They appeared been out of gear for the last day or two had a rifle in his hand and was endear to be running after the lat defendant, who between Wanchal Station and the Central ouring to fix the bayonets, 2nd defend. Police Station. Give the--Deane his due.ant had two Japanese swords in his bands.
To make the occurrence all the more with his fist.
Both defendants and most annoying, we learn that our gallant friends of the other Malays were drunk. Defend on board the Victor Emanuel (marines and ants were fined $2 ch. sailers) were nearly all turned out, under the impression that Mount Shadwell Hos- pital was being redused by fire. The First Lieutenant got to the Hospital gave at 3.16 am, but finding that the Mount was fairly cool and collected, proceeded further. East. Two other batches of men from the gun- boats did likewise; and these evolutions were performed at the "double." This was most praiseworthy conduct; but dosa it not | Fined $1 each,
Lam Arz, a stone-cutter, committing a aulance at Bank Wharf. Fined 10 cents. Ho Achan, a fishmonger, hawking ireal fish in the public streets contrary to Market Ordinance. Fined 25 cents. ighting and creating a disturbance at Ching-Ka Shing and another coolies, Douglas Lapralk's Wharf. Finet 50 cents
each.
Chan Akwok, cook, and Chan Akai, tailor, gambling in the public streeta denote an equal defect in signalling power Barracks, out without light or pass and Wong Ayan, celle, employed at the In the Naval Departments!
resisting the police. Fined $3.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
24th instant.
Vigia.
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observation presumably after 11 p.m. in. ball), keeping my eye on the elephant. Not narrativo, where after saying he was sur hotel, refreshed and healed of all manner the Praya not properly and sufficiently getting it, turned round and saw the prisad to fad that he had taken up his lot of diseases. Such were the simple sea-side reported to the proper quarters? Why has gun. The coolie was out of sight. I have food was more plentiful on the other, he us to abandon the repulsive vine of surf- guarded? If so, why was this influx not tracker disappearing in the jungle with my on the worst aide of the island, and that custome of our fathers It is too late for the pass and light system been abolished ? or always road in books that you should not continues: I confess this side of the bathing, and to return to the only true and has boon, why has it not been officially fire at a charging elephant, till he puts his country was much plassanter than mine, safe method of utilizing the sand beach? would most likely have armed themselves ways do it. At all events I did not wait for remove; for as I was fixed in my habita- manifest bat they need scarcely be men- Toported? Had sock been done, residents trunk down, but I do not believe they al- but yet I had not the least inclination to The advantages of sand bathing are so and tried to proseof, their own property this, but fired when he was about twaive or tion, it became natural to me," the charma tioned. The bather requires no bathing the Chinose, character (the lower class and fifteen yards off. I could only see his head of home now taking the place of the hope dreas. He or she-at the case may be-is old residents. It seems that all the wisdom middle of it. He came down with a crash. mistake occurs where he le made to speak with the solitary exception of the head, pirates) being well known to many of the in a confused mass, and banged into the of seeing other human creatursa. Another concealed from public view, while bathing, and knowledge gained by many years 1 ran to see what had become experience, by a succession of Governors runaways, and found them quite close, 6o him; and this is the more remarkable exposed to the ravages of salt water, can be. the of the religious thoughts which came over neck, and arms, and the latter, not being and Councils, (men of undoubled intellect I shouted for the guns; but before I reach because Defoe had obviously given areat embellished to any extent. by art. and discernment) has been of late put oned them the elephant got up, fell down attention to thla part of the book. Robin bather rests quietly in the sand, secure one side, It would soom the Authorities again, and then went staggering into a son Crusoe, it may be remembered, when against thodanger of being knocked violently of the present day think hitherto we have thick, thorny bit of jungle, with his ears ill from the ague, has a dream which dowa and buried under a thousand tons of been all wrong, or else that they aggrandise and trunk drooping, and his head swaying frightens him much and in tolling of his water. to themselves a knowledge of Chinese from side to side. If I had only had a gan feelings on awaking he says:-"I had, and unpalatable, mix ure with which the Inste d of swallowing the coarse alas, no divine knowledge; what I had basin of the Abantic is filled, the male predésensors. There is one thing more while he lay so long on the ground. received by the good instruction of my sand-bather can sip well cold tea, and the I would ask, and that is, Who is answer You may be sure I blessed those two father was then worn out by an uninter female sand-bather can indulge in ice-cream. able for the deaths, should there be any, of fellows well; and, to make matters worse rupted series (for eight years) of seafaring Books can be read and handkercufefs oan the Constables and others who have been the tracker was in such a fright that he wickedness," and I was all that the most be embeidered in the sand as well as on it. wounded in the late affray 1 I should say would not go a step after the elephant. I hardened, unthinking, wicked creature What could be more delightful than to bo that culpable neglect or wilfulness on the followed him for about a hundred yards by among our common dailors can be supposed buried wear to one's heart's idol while a part of our authorities to keep proper his blood, but then had to turn back, the to be; not having the least sonte, eliber of single umbrella stuts out the world, and it watch and ward over the peace of the place was so thorny, and went to the top of the fear of God is danger, or of thankfuluose is cartain that the ol people will not be render the responsible ones amenable to cass he came out, but he did not. On going that Defoe, when writing this impressive Long Branch beach, planted with three Colony and the Hives of its citizens would a grass hill near to watch the jungle in to God in deliverances." It is strange dug up for two long, blissful hours. The the laws of the Country.
back I found the fellows where I left them, passage should have forgotten that be had thousand visitors, in, say, six rows, with too frightened to move. The tracker then made Crusoe say, after describing the space enough between the hills to permit told me that my first elephant fell to the manner in which he was Erat waabed on waiters to walk and carry refreshments, shot, and, though I did not believe him, I shore, that directly he found himself safe would be a sight that would fill Angels with went to look at the place. Sure enough, he began to look up and thank Providence | joy and writhings of laughter,-New York Manila.
the brute was there stone dead, with the that his life was saved.
Times. (Translated from our Manila Exchanges.) Though both the elephants were large, this when they speak
bullet right in the middle of his forehead. Meu are, howevér, not always consistent; Owing to a petition by Mr William M. was far the bigger of the two, and appeared and it may be said that the other errora these grave subjects, Clark, timber marchaut, for the vessels a very old one. I have his tusks now.which have beon pointed out are not greater sonsigned to him and engaged in the timber The other one had none; very few have than such as might be found in a real narra trade with China, to go to the coast of any in Ceylon, and a really fine tusker is tive, inasmuch as people when recounting, Luzon, in the province of Tayabas, to load seldom seen. There is a report in the the faote of their lives are opt to mix up timber without the necessity of firat calling papers that there are two in the Borton daten and to be forgetful in other ways. at Manila, together with many other non-Plains with splendid tusks, but I doubt it. But it may be doubted whether this argu siderations; the Direction General of the The elephants were so many miles from the meat would apply to some at least of from foreign ports, and engaged in the place, and then it was too dark to look for That respecting the ink, for instance, Exchequer thought fit to permit the vessels bungalow that I only once went back to tho the mistakes which have been mentioned. exportation of timber, to proceed for that the other dead one. An immense quantity would hardly have been made by Alexan Purpose to any open ports of the Philip of the meat of the frat had been eaten by der Selkirk if he had been capable of pines if such is convenient to their interests, leopard during the night. I waited till recording what happened to him. A man been felt about 7 o'olack on the morning of him had there been moonlight. Besides the write with or not, and at all events could A slight shock of earthquake was report dark for him, but he would not again ap-who had been left in utter solitude would ed by the Central Telegraph offles as having pear. I have no doubt I could have bagged recollect whether at first he had ink to the 20th September, in Lipa, Batangas, and elephant, I got two doe elke and two not produce a journal after saying that ink ved per Esmeralda, from Hongkong, in the useless; the other pair I have now, I shot spoken are put aside as not being great-
spotted bucks. One of the latter had was wanting to him. Yet if this and the We hear that one of the passengers arri- beautiful horns, hut in velvet, and so other inconsistencies of which we have secretary of the Governor-General of thats great many jungle fowl and pigeons every than those which might be found in recorda Colony, who will remain a few days here.
When the steamer Esmeralda left Hong-seven coolies well supplied with food.of the mistake which was surely made in evening, and kept myself, the boy, and based on truth, the same can hardly be said, kong, the Bar. did not indicate bad wea- 4 0.
not accounting for the absence of any other ther, but the sea was rough; on approach-
foot-prints near that famous one which ac ing the coasts of Luzon the glass commence
alarmed Robinson Crusoe, or of a singular to fall, and a very fresh S.W, wind blowing,
and almost comic discrepancy which occure which somewhat retarded her voyage. the estate of Russoll and sturgis, has been
told, these had with them a white man, The fine house at Nagiajan, bolonging to
in the description of the battle with the As the reader need hardly be
the 19th Sept sold by auction for the sum of $14,700, on
whom they had prisoner, and kept fast bound. After giving an account of the roat of the savages, Robinson Crusoe says: the manifold contrivances by which Crusoe and feet of the poor creature, and, lifting made himself so comfortable in his island him up, asked him in the Portuguese but, marvellously ingenious as they are tongue what he was He answered me in the details of the story sometimen olash. Latin Christianus; but so very weak and Curiously enough, Defoe even makes an faint that he could scarse stand or speak."” bad at first for describing the incidents of however, sufficient to infuse such strength error in describing the means which Crusoe A dram of rum and a piece of bread were, his solitary life. Just after recording the into him that, on receiving a sword and erection of the post on which the days were pistol from Crusoe, and being told to do recorded by notches, Robinson Crusoe says what he could, he did so with such brought from the wreck, "as, in particular, not having it in their power to fly for their something which in his several voyages he them to pieces in an instant (the savages that he has titberto omitted to mention courage and intrepidity that he cut two of pens ink, and paper; yet in the next lives)" Now, how a man almost unable to paragraph he andnotously makes the follow-stand or speak from exhaustion could be ing statement "I now found I wanted so invigorated by a little rum and bread as many things, notwithstanding all that I to be forthwith strong enough to cut in had sisesed together, and of these that of pieces a couple of tough savages passos ink was one; as also spade, pick-aze, and comprehension. Mere inaccuracy and for- shovel to dig or remove the earth." He is getfulness, such as are often to be found in guilty of an equally fatal slip in speaking real narratives, would not produce a marvel of the killing of the goat, which has of this kind, and the curious error is a interested almost every boy who could read, strong proof of the difficulty of avoiding in (Taken at bara Futconer & Co.'s Premises and would indeed have been a very im-fiction mistakes which would never be portant incident to a real castaway, as made by one who was trying to describe showing how food was to be obtained In what he had himself witnessed. journal, Robinson Crusoe describes very tradictions in Robinson Crusoe have been the part of the book which precedes the minately the manner in which he stalked spoken of without any intention of attempt. It is hardly necessary to say that the con-
and shot the goat and how the kid stayed ing to depreciate that wonderful work, by the body, and adds:-"When I carried which indeed as a whole is simost above the old one with me upon my shoulders, the attack. kid followed me quite to my inclosure; object in pointing out the mistakes in this As we said at the outset, our upon which I laid down the dam and took ever-popular story has been to show the the kid in my arms, and carried it over my immense difficulty of writing consistent pale." Here everything is very precise; fiotlon, from the fact that in one of the best but, alas in the journal where all the notions ever written several discrepancice dates are given, it appears that the goat are to be found.Saturday Review, was killed on October 81st, when Robinson. Crusoe had been a month on the island, and that the pale of posts and cables, of which so much is said in the book, was not began until January S in the next year. It
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A minute gun was fired at 18 minutes interval by the Dona Maria de Molina conterested in the count of out the flags which tied the hands Din during the whole day of the 11th Sept., in consequence of the death of the neen Maria Cristina. The obsequies for the repose of her noul were set down for the 23rd instant, in the Church of San Domingo. the 1st Sept. & fire broke out in the district Advices from Pangasinan saya that on of Malasiqni which destroyed the church, convent, 36 houses of light materials, and 12 paddy-stores.
koug; 2, Flodden, from New Castle 3 Arrivals.Sept. 1, Panay, from Hong. Merwanjee Franjeo from Melbourne; 3. Kameralda, from Hongkong: 6. uy, from Hongkong; 9, Belted Will, from Singapore; 8, Mariveles, from Singapore; 9, Thales, from Hongkong; 15; Penedo, from Hongkong; 14. Pepita, from Cadiz 16, Salvadore, from Hongkong; 20, Fame ralda, from Hongkong; 20, Craigowi, from Newcastle, N.S.W.
Departures-Sopt. 3, durera, for Sings pore, &o; 5, Panay, for Singapore; 5, Sol vadora, for Hongkong 0, White Rose, for New York; & Esmeralda, for Hongkong Australian, for Liverpool; 10, Emuy, for 7, Corona, for San Francisco; 8, West Hongkong; 11, Villa de Rivadavia, for Hongkong; 18, John O'Gaunt, for St. Helena; 13, Sempiternel, for Havre; 20, Mariveles, for Singapore.
ELEPHANT ADVENTURE IN CEYLON. The following extract, says a correspon- dent of the field, from a letter received 5, may interest some of your readers: from my brother in Ceylon and dated April
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It is a well-known fact that numbers ofs, obstructing the passage of the 8. B. Chinese are married to European women in by making fast to her before she had Conquere as she entered the harbour to-day, the Australian Colonies, and this is one of anchored. 4th deferdant fined $3 being I came back from my shooting trip last an old offender, and others fined $1 each Sunday. There is a hat built for shooting the soros which rankle in the hearts of the whole being bound over in their own purposes at Wellangivittie. I got down on the European male inhabitants of that recognizance $6 to be of good behaviour Sunday night, and sent at once to the is also curious that this fence or pale, sur-the tyranny of this atrocious custom of youthful country; but it is perhaps not so
for 6 months.
Cingalese village for the tacker. The lat- rounding that enclosure which, with its tent surf-bathing. For a woman to enter the well known that the treatment-such women
tar came, and I started next morning to and adjacent care, has seemed to so many surf involves a long and abstruse process of look for spotted deer, or anything else that boys a kind of earthly paradise, is described undressing and redressing, which is a terri may expect at the hands of their. Celestial
might turn up. I had my small Express; in the journal as having been begun on the bla strato upon her strength and tempor. husbands upon their return to the Middle
the tracker had my gun, and a coolle car day jast mentioned, and finished on April Moreover, the act of bathing makes pitiless Hongkong, Sept. 26, 1878. Kingdom is anything but pleasant. Were
ried the big rifle. I had walked for several 14th, in sad contradiction to the statement revelations concerning the female form. It StB-I am glad to see from your last miles without seeing anything, when we which Crusoe makes in a preceding pass. is estimated that at least eleven thousand it otherwise, there would be fewer marri- the community taking steps to make itself plants. I asked the tacker how far he already quoted that he had no spade or Branch with the conviction that woman is
night's paper that there la some chance of suddenly came on the fresh track of ele-age where, after complaining in the words young men annually return from Long 28, Oracle, ages between suck very opposite peoplen heard upon the present condition of affairs thought they might be, and he said shout pickaze, he saysThis want of tools wholly false with the exception of a rude Whilst in Australia a Chicaman will to in the Colony and fully echo your hope that four miles. I thought this was too far to made every work I did go on heavily, and frame-work, Intolerable to the wathetic eye. some extent adapt himself to European I trust therefore that the memorial or we kept on. The tracker had told me that finished my little pale or surrounded inha- bathing inflicts upon the sensitiva female Europos the right had will be hit on the head. bother about them it being already late; so it was near a whole year before 1 had When to the complex agonies which surf. ideas, and he will at least allow his very whatever other form the expression of the tracks were made by only two elephants, bitation," much better half to live as she was wont to opinion may take will include a demand and that they were both roguen. When inbour which were required for outting, whether to leave off the back hair, aud going on to describe the time and mind, is added the struggle of desiding that a thorough, striot and impartial inves we had gone only a few hundred yards I carrying home, and driving in the piles or thus confeat its falouness, or to wear it in do. All diferences in manners and customs, tigation shall take place into the cirgum heard a twig break a few yards to my left; stakoss still more carious slip occurs the water and so spoti it, it can be readily 18, Niagara,
poor mistaken woman may notice in her stances connected with the affair of the and thinking it might be a deer, I drew when he speaks of taking Esh, for understood that the sea is bitterly though husband, she will perhaps think strange
That such investigation shall be by a ing minute he said Allia,' the name for yarn, but no bocks; and yet, in the mankind only to agree that surf-bathing
what the tracker's attention to it. After listans he says that he had a long line of rape secretly hated by the fair noz but romantic. The illusion is dispelled, Commission which shall sit with open doors an elephant in the Cingalese language. I same eontence,
Were 1, Marina, however, as soon as she reaches the "An- and shall have the power to call for avid bargely belloved him at arst, but I took frequently caught fab enough, without fashion, the rea-sbore would lose its horrors, he states that he should be regarded as a crime against cestral Halls" there she is treated as are stice from any of the offers of the Governmy heavy rifle from the coolie and put in a in the lease indicating how he did it.and become what it still is to inland potots,
ment it may think proper, all Chingas wives-shot up from the outer
couple of cartridges made on the chance of Defoe probably meant to describe some a really unobjectionable place. We might 1am, Sir, world end jealously guarded against all
being them. Just there the jungle was contrivance, but could not think of anys then rediscover the true use of the seashore, very thick and all over thurns, so that one thing at the moment, and forgot to supply and find it a healthful and enjoyable as prying eyes. She has to adopt the Chinese
sould scarcely turns We soon came in the deficiency: Another mistake is made our ancestors found it in the days when ensforis, live in a house, which to her, no
sight of two elephants, and the tracker when the solitary hero is telling of his Fire Island earned its appropriate name, wanted me to fire at onse at a distance of return home after his fourney to a part of matter how lowly her origin, must appear
To the Editor of the "Osina Mait."
An ingenious antiquarian has lately about thirty-five yards. As I käem thus it the island remote from that on which he show that though Fire Island was, a con a very hovel, eat food she has been totally
Hongkong, Sept. 26, 1876. was a mistake to are at too great a distance had made his dwelling place. He says tury ago, a sea alde resort famous for its 15. unaccustomed sto, and mix with people valuable organ, signed Blaser, pon to me, and I stalked them to within twenty with great pleasure the fruitfulness of the Island surffa those days people bathed SzHaving seen several articles in your told the tracker and calls to stick close that when he came home he contemplated ba hing, no one ever entered the Fire whose very conversation must, providing rity and Humanitarian, I beg to yards, of course taking pare to go up wind valley he had fast visited and the pleas in the sand. The visitor to Fire Laland she understands it, sdom strange and hate all on your space and the pabilis In Just at this metuent they heard me, and satness of the situation, coming to the west to the beach in the morning, accom
dulgence in a few remarks which have the biggest one turned sharp round. Be conclusion that he had fted his abode in panied by a netivo Fire Islander and s falta kerana AR
cccurred to me. In the first plass, I think fore he had time to move I fired, timing at the worst part of the country; so he adds spade-By the united efforts of the latter -Our readers will perhaps be surprised to it hardly ereditable to the authors of the his forehead, I did not see what happened, naturally enough Upon the whole I hole was dug in the warts sand, in which shove effusions; why if they bave anything as the smoke hang dreadfully, but heard a began to consider removing my habitation, the visitor, freed from all garments, was hear that in the province of Namboi, there to say, don't they say it out and nos talk fearful crashing, and, looking under the and to look out for a place equally intend buried, with the exception of his head and are known to be about a dozen European about Bears, Greats, fumours, and tae smoke, I saw the other elephant, making where I now was, situates 1 possible, in hands. An umbrelin and a cigar were then women married to Chinese, some of whom ment with feather, worthy Governor his ear, and he saide down to my great The thought ran long in my head and I himself. In the height of the season the other, ambiguous language about chastise. off nearly straight away. I almed behind that plassent, fruitful part of tan laland. given to him, and he was left to enjoy have large families; and we have heard of do. A few questions perhaps would be delight. I rushed up at once, but he had was exceedingly fond of it last some time, besok was thickly planted with visitor, while one instance in which a poor woman (Irish), better, and I think there will be little did got ap, and stood broadside to me, looking He goes on to say, however, that he daters the natives walked up and down between who must now be well advanced in years as
gulty in answering them.
Very sick I took a steady what bis tem mined to remain in his whode on soddunt of the rows of heads, protesting them from she has a sen about 19 years of age, would ed), to see that the Constables and Lokong pallad. To my surprise and horror, in sailors should be, like Almanif, cast away look upon land as matter out of place, un- 1st, Why is there no night patrol (mount pls (Having loaded the rifle again) and ite being by the sealday so that if any the attacks of the inevitable children, who be only too glad to change abade, even
are as their posta and on the alert de bead of falling he sharged straights at me on the coast, he might see them All this less it is throws in the faces and down the any valid rescots been shown for dispensing with his trunk straight out before him, As is of course just like a true record, but it in seeks of grown-up people. After su hour though she had to sever the gordien knot. With sugh necessary measure? How is I had only one barrel of my ride landed, I unfortunately, inconsistent wils the state or two of and bathing the visitors were There are at the present moment shrei | that to many men could lend wilkovi | put my hand behind for my gun (lended with / ment made by him a little later in das dug up, and returned to their elsthing and
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