The Island of Ascension 
heavy-made knife with a short handle, some- 
thing like a Japanese sword, but straight in the 
blade. The young men of Nimbi, who had never 
before killed a man, were the executioners. 
The bodies of the victims were afterwards taken 
to Nimbi from Akassa, and there eaten. A 
French priest who was in the place at the time 
saw the orgies perpetrated. I met him when he 
came down to the Consulate at Brass, and heard 
his description of the whole occurrence. 
After the little war had finished, Grant Dalton 
asked me if I would like to go a cruise with him 
ELMS. Widgeon. I had now been seven 
months in the Protectorate, and my reason for 
having gone there at all was to save some money 
in order that I might spend it in a big-game 
shoot on the East Coast of Africa. 
Several of the Widgeon’s crew were down with 
fever, so we sailed for Ascension Island in order 
that those who needed rest might be sent ashore, 
go to hospital, and recuperate on fresh food. 
The Island of Ascension is unique among the 
islands of the world, and is not treated as so 
much land surrounded by water, but as a ship, 
and tender to the guardship at the Cape of Good 
Hope station. Here everything was done as on 
@ man-o’-war, and all the work of the place, 
farming on Green Mountain and turtle-turning, 
was conducted entirely by marines. 
It is a weird spot, for the mountains and 
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