278 TIMEHRI. 
News,* of Mr. GLADSTONE, and the first of a cheap 
American edition of one of Mr. JAMES PAYN’S novels. 
So busy were these simple folk in cultivating this new 
fashion of the white people that they had negleéted 
their fields and had forgotten to fish or hunt; and, 
throughout the many wakeful hours of the night, instead 
of any longer telling each other the old stories of the 
strange animals and things that they themselves had seen 
and heard and that other Redfolk had seen and heard, 
they repeated to each other the strings of new syllables 
which they had so lately been taught to pronounce. 
Unfortunately for me they frequently insisted on coming 
to me as I lay in my hammock vainly trying to sleep in 
the midst of the school-like din, and, despite all remon- 
strances on my part, repeating proudly to me long 
strings of sounds which I had reason to believe repre- 
sented in more or less accurate fashion the English 
Church catechism in the vulgar tongue of a neighbouring 
tribe of Redfolk. 
Probably the enthusiasm of this newly established 
church did not long continue in its first intensity. At 
any rate by the time of my second visit it had assumed a 
very much milder and less unreasonable form, partly 
perhaps because, in the interval a white man had come 
‘and lived among them for a short time and had done 
something to teach them in more praétical manner. 
* The Jubilee Number of the //lustrated London News, published on 
the 14th of May, 1892, opens with a peem by no less a poet than Mr, 
Andrew Lang, in which occurs the verse : 
Through every land goes forth her hand, 
The Jilustrated News 
In temples of Roraima stand 
Framed fragments of her views, 
