158 FATHER ANJELLO AND HIS LABOURS. 



Here he collected together as man}^ of the children 

 of the Limbakarajia tribe as he could induce to 

 remain in the neighbourhood. He endeavoured to 

 instruct them in the elements of his rehgion, and 

 taug-ht them to repeat prayers in Latin^ and follow 

 him in some of the ceremonious observances of the 

 Roman Catholic Church. Like other children this 

 amused them^ and so long as they were well fed 

 and supplied with tobacco^ everything went on as 

 he could desu'e. Meanwhile he was supported 

 chiefly by the contributions of the officers of the 

 garrison^ themselves not well able to spare much. 

 While leading this lonely life he seems gradually to 

 have given way to gloomy despondenc3\ I recol- 

 lect one passage in his diary (which I once saw for 

 an hour)^ where he expresses himself thus : '^ An- 

 other year has gone by^ and with it all signs of the 

 promised vessel. Oh ! God^ even hope seems to 

 have deserted me.^^ At length a vessel from Sydney 

 arrived^ bringing a large supply of stores of every 

 kind for the mission^ but it was too late^ for Father 

 Anjello and his sorrows were alike resting* in the 

 tomb. One day news came that he was ill ; a boat 

 was sent immediately for him^ and found him dying. 

 He was removed to the settlement and next day he 

 breathed his last — another^ but not the last victim 

 to the climate. His death-bed was described to me 

 as having been a fearful scene. He exhibited the 

 greatest horror of death^ and in his last extremity 

 blasphemously denied that there was a God ! 



