CONTENTED CRUSOES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81884, 10 November 1906, Page 4

CONTENTED CRUSOES.

ISLAXDKRS WHO KKILSK TC K.MKIRATi:. "Tri-.an da Cunh.i s generally supposed id be a huge melt in thi innidle Atlantic inl.ab ted by a dusky Bll' sh rtice who live on fish and 'he pub 11a ens ol tin- Kvligam Trait Siciety," says a Government report on ■ lie is and. A- a fact, it s a moderately feitile i-slard 1,500 inles fi'in le- Cape on a diiect line to Monte Video. "The coinn.iiiii'y." acid- the icpoit

■v.\a liy ti.- ll.'ibeit Spenei v's ( | (in inaiion of a s'mple soei.'ty wh.eh formi -ingle woiking whole unsubji'iicd to any oiliei. and of wh'ch the par - ■o-i.perato wiili ur withmiil 11 this ca e wi'liouti a ululating comm'iiee. '■Toe inhabitant- ah be,„ig io the Clinch of England, and the island falls Willi n the diocese ~f Si . Helena.' vlvu-ands of miles away. The pup ul.it on totals s.'ven'y--even. of eleven famil es in al', for the i-aindets are net troubled with rlie ''race suicide' . probkm.

A project \va» on toe early (hivear for tlte Uan-poitalion en masse of the islanders to the Cape of St. Helena. Oa Januarv 25th of this year lie- heads of the eleven families voted on tin' project. Three fanrliis wished to go. -even wanted li; nnia'n, ar.d one f .niily abstained fioni vo; ng. The Cape Gere nm Ms offer . f trailportation wa- liteiofoie uiilidratvn. The is'anders only need, a schoolmaster who could also act a- clergynir.n, was filled ill April be the Rev. J G. Bartow, who ventures to uxpres- a hope that a warship will call for the mails *nis time in 11)07.