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It sometimes happens that Fato playa auch tricks with men, that her puppets, in the and resolve to laugh with her in- The Pacific keeps the secret of innumer ten of leaving her to laugh at them. able human stories of strange and exeit. Such is the case of two Americans, who, ing interest But none of them perhaps led by coincidence to the very brink of is so appealing as the tale which creeps the play to comedy Two American bro- a tragedy, suddenly paused and changed out, on a vessel coming into port, afathers, John, aged 45, aut Jack, aged 49, solitary white man having been found both wealthy landowners in the United living as Crusoe on his lonely island.
The tropical Pacific is the ideal sea States, quarrelled some years ago and for such a hermit life This great and Yowed never to meet again
says the Phil weeks ago each, unknown to the other. generally calm dewan. driphin Palilie Ledgre, is dotted with resolved to visit Paris, and suddenly hundreds of islands, the larger of which, found themselves face to face on an in groups, are inhabited by natives, but Atlantic liner. They ignored each other, however, at Havre, while Jack wont on the smaller and mens isolated ones to Paris, the other remained awhile in lying in a state of nature, and uni arder that they should no longer he DALLUTTA LAN- Thin Linn afforda regular milinge is Calcutis, Penang, and habited at least by any aborigins-14 fellow travellers. Three days later John particular, remarkable cora! formation also came to the capital and established that are termed atolls," in contradis tinction to what are called "fringing or hinwelf in a botel, near the Champs of which, have been Elysées, blissfully ignorant of the fact settled for by natives.
that his detested brother was living in ShangHa) O such an island or rather, little the satne hotel Days passed without group of islats, them lived for a number their meeting, but it appears that mean of years Charles Robertson, a Scams while both had net and been greatly the inhale of the ses across which charmed by Mile, Suznane & John was your vesel has been moving for weeks, smoking in the lounge when, a jeweller a show-white circle slowly rises, formed by having invited him to inspect his stock, the swells lashed into team
Bainst the
ramhe singled-out a pearl necklace as suit part of coral. Outside dark blue waters of the Pacific, and in able for presentation to the lady of his 11a: choice. But the jeweller told him he had sile it is a smooth stretch of light green. just okl that necklace to snother resi enin, shallow dotted with small dent in the hotel for presentation to
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the de Mlle. Suzanne X, and, to John's surprise, composed corals, which forms of beauty and colour on the bed of! the lagoon. On them as well as on the encircling reef where it rises above the breakers, grow the coena palm, pardanus bread fruit; and all the rest of the luxuri ant vegetation of the South Sens. Such was Palmerston Island, where Robertson: livel.
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Roberts, like Robinson Crusor, could நாங் resist returning to the caniforts of elyilised ife; but Thomas Holt, of Robert's Island, thought differently, for he clung to his file kingdom till death took him, out of Bristol-a surely a lawyer"
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purchaser. So they were rival lovers ar well as worn enemies. Without Aather BANGKOK word John strode to his brother's room, revolver in hand. Jack drew his own revolver in defence, and the men fred simtiltaneously. The alarm was given, but the hotel attendants hurried to the scene the brothers, neither of whom was hurt, emerged, arm in arm, their: long-lived quarrel and their newborn rivalry both amicably settled. When they fired they both missed, and in the moment's reflection which followed they realised the folly of trying to kill each coincided. They agreed to spin a coin, the loser to retire from the contest for the lady's hand and to buy the necklace as a wedding present for his brother's bride. The younger brother won, and for once in a while a story of rival lovers and revolvers is to have a happy ending.
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so much disturbance in the American trade ing brig on board of which he had shipped at San Francisco that his shipmates com pelled her skipper to maroon him on Robert's Island, the most northern of the Marquesas Archipelago. The captain, & good-hearted man, was reluctant to do so, and yet, faced with a muting, felt com. pelled to send Holt ashore; but he did not abandon him wholly unprovided.
Holt was given a frying pan and an iron pot, an axe and a spade, a bagful of uni's all a bagful of ship's biscuit, i saw nul a cutlass, and as the boat was shoving off a musket and ammunition were flung n the sund beside him by the skipper. Hoit did not, as all in the boat expected, either break out into a wild mad fury of despair or hurriedly set about firing on the small craft. He remained standing silently" alongside the scanty · supplies. Holt had disappearal.. When the vessel bere away on the wind
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of the glories of Cowes in prewar days Tisch) Ostal No, 918. and indicates the revival of yachting. Ack nowledging the gift of painting of the Britus, presented by the Royal Yacht of her racing record, which up to the pre- Squadron, his Majesty said he was proud sent was 161 first prizes, and thirty-bino other prizes in twenty-nine years.
Seven years later a British whaler, the Stratford, touched at Robert's Island to re- fill her water casks if possible, and found the island appeared to be inhabited. Search was made by means of a well-trod-On passing this barrier he came at once den path, which wound through a plan the house, which had been built of posts tution
brend fruit, coconut, bananas of wood to the sides and front, interlaced and other fruit trees, then led it with boughs and plastered with mud. thickly wooded part of the island to There was only a doorway into it, but au wards rising ground. At about a mile door. On the earth flour, tear a roughly- from the beach the track opened into a made table, lay the skeleton of a man, only clearing, that was closed on one side by a partly covered by what had been a sheet high. anclimbable cliff of rock, and cise
of skins. On fingering this it went into where by an impenetrable barrier of trees powder, and the bones of the skeleton and
prickly undergrowth. At the end of
fell apart at the lightest touch. Qu one this clearing stood a house of timber some side were an old iron
frying pan, pot and 30 feet long by 19 wide, close to a small pool of water feet by a spring gushing out of a pile of what had been kindling wood, all rotted and rust- an are and O LON the cliff. In the cookhouse alongside it Holt exten, A tobacco box and a rudely fashion was found at a meal, together Swede, and a native of the Marquens, pipe iny on the table, and a rusty gun and I'm enthes in the corder. A broad who had thrown in their lot with him,
shelf which had served for a bedstead was The Bristol man was overjoyed to see still covered with its skins, English faces again, but, having told his story he refused the offer of a passage home, Holt was "happier nor any king. and flatly objected to leave his island
domain.
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A TRAGICAL DISCOVERY. Nearer South America, the Gallipagons Group have had many island hermits sauce first the Spaniards sighted. them. In the days of buccaneering this group was the base of more than one band of wea freebooters which chicumstanco has " duced several individuals to seclude them- selves there in search of hidden treasure..
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FEATH AKO discovery was made of a Crusoo Chatham Island, of the same group and a tragical discovery it was,
Like Robert's Island, already mentioned. Chatham Island:
age of a place for
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a Crusoe. It is shaped like a crab's claw, about ten miles long and some seven miles at its Broadest, with n
succession of small greenhills and valleys, quch with its smali stream, and those rivulets often flowing into one another von dashing over the cliffs in pictus que waterfalls, Parts of the island are thickly wooded, and other parts form charming savannahs, where browse wild cattle, goats, pigs, the cendants of stock imported by buccaneer and long-dead settler alike, and now so wild that when disturbed they dash through the thickets like door. There is abundance of turtle and fish of all sporles, that are most easily caught.
Some years tiga a schooner belonging a company that Ivased the sealing rights arrived at this island; amul a doctor, who was was on board her partly for his health
ngel
urtly "as ship's surgeon, took it into his lead to wall round the island on a pedion. When he was
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the weather gule, at ainut four mils inland, he came suddenly on a space that had over been cleared. Pump- kins, melons, tobuce, sweet potatoes, etc... were now growing all together in a wild state among tail weeds and suriters of young trees starting from the rools of the old ono.
NO CLUE.
- At the upper and rising part of the clearing the sargron marked indications of a large hut, almost hidden by clump of trees. But there was no sound of human voies here. All was still except for the cooing of the tros doven.
On nearing the habition he saw that is was long since the place had been tended by human hands. Wild vises had thrown so close and thick a network round it be bad to make an opening with his axe. (Configuei sa itext coluna.)
The American sw that this unfortunate Crusde must have been dead for many years. He searched the hut minutely and afterwards made many inquiries, but no clue was ever got as to the name or who this forgotten solitary had been,
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