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The correspondent of The Times who accompanied the Prince of Wales to Tamania recalled the occasion in 1868, when, in the same streets, "King Billy, the last male surviver of the Tasmanian race, clad in a blue thirt, with a gold braided cap. walked at the side of the Duke of of Edinburgh" proudly asserting his possession of Royal blood.
The Tasmanian race was not the last to go, for almost every decade since has seen the extinction of some aboriginal stock In one part of the world or another. Many of the Australian tribes not yet extinct are only represented by a handful of survivors, and the last census taken in Cuba established the fact that not one was left alive of the race which inhabited the island when Columbus landed there.
across the plains, there is little doubt! but that they would all have become victims of German "frightfulness."".
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DESCENDANTS OF THE DICAS. From South America there -have come reports at different times of a subterranean people who are sup posed to be the descendants' of 'the } -- Incas. Their dwellings are the caves, It really looks as if the silent tradi and they live mainly on the fish tion of the sea services, whether which are caught in the pools: naval or mercantile, is coming to an Reports like these, Mr. Harris cald, end. Both under the white and red have generally a substratum of truth. ensign we have professional sailors That individual members of tribes, whose skill with the pen is narrowing having perhaps been taken away as the breach which exists between the far distant from the home of their Amongst recent recruits to slaves, may occasionally be found sailor and the longshoreman. race he has himself experienced. literary officers is Captain F. H. Once upon his travels in Africa he Bryant, D.S.C., who, it will be 1,600 Feet above Sea Level recognised by the sign of a cicatrix remembered, brought the "Brussel" peculiar to the race that a very old from Antwerp to her last resting man living amongst slaves belonged place on the Tyne, Encouraged by to a tribe which he had visited his success in recording this exploit some thousands of miles away. for the pages of The Dolphin (the Like one in a dream, this man heard journal of the Imperial Merchant Ser Mr. Harris speak to him in his own vice Guild), Captain Bryant has new language. "White man, white man," written an account of the last voyage be exclaimed "from whence have you come, for the language you apeak is that which I learned years and years ago when I was a child?"
The assumption that native races must necessarily die out is mistaken. Fifty years ago for example, the In an interview with a correspon-Aborigines Protection Society bought dent of The Observer, Mr. John H. a tract of land adjoining Prince Harris, the well-known authority on Edward Island for the benefit of the native questions, raised the point remnant of a tribe known as the whether any pure-blooded Hottentots Mic Mac Indians. At that time or Bushmen still remain in South they numbered only twenty-three Africs. It is true, he said, that in families; to-day there are the typewriter. When she is rolling the early part of the war a Bushman, hundred and thirty, The young supposed to be of pure blood, was chief of the tribe on the outbreak of brought to this country from the the war volunteered for service in Maleglog Hinterland, but it has long the Canadian Army, and whilst he been understood that in this part of was in England he was received by Africa there are no survivors of this the Society. Two members of the race. It was the opinion of the late tribe were killed in the war. The Mr. J. S. Moffat, that away in the chief, who was wounded, returned, heart of German South-West Africa there is a pure-blooded tribe of | Hottentots who retain all their purity of language. He heard of them from travellers,
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made by the historic transport "River Clyde," under the British flag, which will appear in a future number of the same magazine. In a letter addressed to the editor of The Dolphin, Captain Bryant remarks that writting at sea is a bigger job than he had anticipated From the time we left the Channel, except for the day we were anchored at St. Vincent, we have been pitching and rolling, in fact anything but con ducive conditions to writing, even by
heavily the machine hesitates to go up to windward when you hit the keys, and it is difficult to hit the exact letter you aim for when every muscle in the body is automatically straining to keep the body on an even keel, as it were.
Captain Bryant is now in command CHIEF. IN KIHE.
of the steam tug "St.Clement," and on "There are a number of old chiefs this subject he writes: These tuge who are to-day in exile in various coun... are all alike, no doubt splendid: for tries," Mr. Harria added.. "They have `what they were intended, namely, been exiled for political reasons by the - rescuing torpedoed ships=1,250 British and French Governinents, - horse-power, and they can develop As indicating the probability that Nobody knows anything about them, every pound, But they are too Hrely there must be many peoplea in and the Governments will not may for anything. It always seems to be various parts of the world who hase anything. They have simply been worse at meal times. You feel her been half or wholly forgotten, the moved and lost to the world. sive a roll to windward, and natural case was mentioned of the Rehoboth "It would be very interesting to for the long lee roll, when she alters ly grasp your plate and trace yourself Bastards, who half a century ago, get a return of the number of these her mind and does a nose-dive, and trekked from their abodes in the chiefs and where they are. Exiled Cape Colony and became practically without trial they have, as it were I sincerely hope that our old sport you lose your soup, seat, and temper. lost to the world in the heart of simply been taken up and carried Saint Clement, when looking from great territory in what was the away. No one knows whither of on high on his lively name-sake, will German South West Protectorate. how many there are, but there must
keep his fingers in his eare and not During the war, this tribe, whose be a considerable number......... existence we had almost, if not quitë,
put them all down in the black book, "I remember visiting one of these why did the Admiralty name these. forgotten, became under romantic exiled chiefs. He was in the Gold wicked sinful tugs after iainis ? when circumstances our Allies, atone Coast Colory. There he was; blind, critical moment indeed, they were in a fige old man, and flone, with the they had such names as Charles danger of abeclute annihilation by exception that one devoted son had
Peace, Deeming Crippen," the Germans, for the whole tribe, followed him all the way from Sierra Sweeny Todd, and plenty of Lucifer, Wilhelm? II, 4 firpits, having fired their last cartridge in Leone, and had sat down in the self-defence, had been driven to the nearest but to his old father to watch top of a mountain and ringed round. över his welfare till he passed away. But for a few hours delay in the The old man's one desire was to be enemy's plana and the unexpected allowed to go home to die, but that advance in the "short interval of desire was not granted by the Govern Mackenzie, who, as the morning ment. I tried hard to get it done, mists rolled away, was seen galloping but I falled to secure his release."
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