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Books, Periodicals & Maga-

Camps, in the New Territories.

The colony has been provided) with on up-to-date nahing G. A. C. HERKLOTS nes for distribution to Service vessel, cold storage equipment and a canning, factory..

Comments Digby Horton: "While I was there the Island's 'Queen' died. She

Mrs Was

secret

$25 Second Impression

On sale at

of the Kelly & Walsh, Ltd

visited the wool from the sheep's back, working with them, Tristan has pirates treasure. I guess that African company hiding place of £2,000,000 or

the long run the

been saved from extinction, a football,, gramophone records', Two years

it ago

was and a dozen wedding rings. their takings! touch-and-go whether this "Getting married in tiny colony of 250 people- bride and bridegroom. To be- ple speak the slow, drawling means careful planning by both Sald Mr Horton: "The peo- 1,500 miles from Cape Town, gin with they must build a accents of another and South

Africa

There could home.

aren't

any spare leisurely age. But they have to shoulder and pat her on the ciss Wicksteed and the lioness. Bish Colonial Development Cor-

a survive.

houses.

There is no imber to work hard to ensure their build But in the report of the Bri- plain

house, and back to bring her wind up. I was going to walk up to her

girls com existence. Their chief retrea- they have to scour the tions are occasional dances and

for wreckage seashore

both of which from football,

have porntion, presented

by Lord which to build a home. It she see

been taught them by mission- Now I'll never Reith, it is revealed that by giving Tristan on industry, the

"The wives of Tristan

aries." tailors, Corporation

weavers, builders, and has saved

Frances Repetto, and was be the joiners. from her cage islanders from being evacuated. trades. If a man wants a suit Development

They are Janes-of-all- Now, thanks to the Colonial loved to have died without at Kiambu, Kenya, while walt- Radio mechanie Digby

Corporation and revealing the Hor- ing for a ship to England and ton, who has recently

his wife must go out and get the went for a walk to see if there Tristan da Cunha, has told me Then she must was anyone about that she something of the life of the

wash it, card an industry. Maybe the Indus- in knew,

people there.

It and spin it, The man who killed her is as "It was just over two years

knits the auit, upset as I am. He had no idea

agu that I visited the that she was only a beautiful for the first time," he said. "I Island

Tea A Luxury film actress in search of love took one look at the place and "Time and again the island. and affection. He thought he wondered just how

anyone cra have been threatened with was defending his life, not his could stand being banished to starvation. an resecticide gun. Whenever honour.

Sometimes they such A life. The loneliness was have had to exist for months who was naughty he gave her a It isn't the furtsta

African terrifying. It had to be felt to on a diet of potatoes.Forty squirt, and she slunk away tragedy of its land. A few be belleved."

years ago all the men of the guility.

years ago a lioness, brought up

Tristan da Cunha is a tower. island except four were drown One day some wild long in the same way, was set free ing mountain of black, volcanic ed when their life-boat capsized, same past the camp, and Iola in the bush, where she had Z rock protruding from the ocean, rushed out joyfully to meet romance

At the same time

M a magnificent It was originally colonised by rats, bred from those escoping plague of them. They gave one sniff and wild Hon. then made nasty faces at her.

party of British soldiers out of a wrecked ship, des- during the Napolconic Wars. troyed all their Some of the Enrrison

crops. A Tristan housewife slayed behind and founded a colony.

Tabs bent-trained her

with

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1

Two Ships

A

and

After that she try doesn't sound like a money- tails will be worth more than

crayah S. C. M. Post, Ltd

makes

It was just like the girl in Proud of cubs the advertisements, Even her. bost Hon friends wouldn't tell CHE was so proud of hr Attor

a pound of toa last” her family Swabs that suo romed round her she smelled of insecticide.

year. Tea la the island's So she just sat there, and wist- loolding for some of her old

greatest luxury. The leaves are fully watched

them they human friends to show them to.

carefully kept and, dried and The Tristans of today can used over and over again." had_gone.

One day she saw the camp of a claim British, When I went to stay with white hunter, and, full of hap-South African and

Dutch, Italian, Tristan do Cunha didn't|

Creole an- know there was a war on until Tots at his camp in the bust pinece, took her most handsome cestors. lola was nine months old and cub in her mouths and went to

February, 1940, The Islanders weighed

always remember one and only radio had brokers 1701b, people as much that she used 45′′

"I shall

She loved pay a call.

the day I first arrived in down. But for three years they, But the while hunter, was a Tristan, said Mr Horton. Only played a useful part in the jump up and put her pawn on stranger to the dietrich got there and those days are real established meteorological and

about two their cheats. You and to say: didn't know her story. You

two ships A. Year call war, when the Royal Navy. "Down, Iolu, down, there's a can guess the awful" sequel. red latter occasions, good on."

Imagines radio stations, there: Boachcomber, the heartless the excitement of the people She was shot on her way to follow, says I should sto in when the stores were brought of the island Tristan enjoyed a England, where alte was to malo mourning for Iola boy powioweahore in canvas boats. another im before going to black eripo on the dout of my Dublin to marry a zoo on pants. shop.

--{London Exprkie Service)

During the Navy's octupation

brief boom. Work was found "There were blarikets-pre- for the people, and for the first sent from the Queen food, fine monty was introduced to ropes, insect powder, salt, tea, the Island.

spinner. Frozen crayfish tails a legendary pirates' hoard."

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