158 FATHEE AN.IELLO AND HIS LABOUES. 



Here he collected together as many of the childi'en 

 of the Limhakarajia tribe as he could induce to * 

 remain in the neighbourhood. He endeavoured to 

 instruct them in the elements of his religion, and 

 taught them to repeat prayers in Latin, and follow 

 him in some of the ceremonious observances of the 

 Roman Cathohc 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 desire. 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 Hfe he seems gradually to 

 have given way to gloomy despondency. 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 ahke resting in the 

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

 was sent immediately for him, and found him d5dng. 

 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 ! 



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