It is almost, certain that the most isolated Englishman at the present moment is the Rev E. J. Beck, the leprosentative of the Church Missionary Society among the Esquimeaux on Blacklead Island, Cumberland Sound, Baffin’s Bay. The ofily connecting link between himself and the outer world is an annual ship, and news has just reached London that he did not hear ol his daughter’s death in Ehgland until twelve months after it occurred.. I lie rev gentleman was the last Britannic subject to learn of Queen Victoria's decease —eight months after the event.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 2
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93Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 2
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