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 

 in H.M.S. 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 

 a man-o'-war, and all the work of the place, 

 farming on Green Mountain and turtle-turning, 

 was conducted entirely bv marines. 



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It is a weird spot, for the mountains and 



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