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powers, and can soon make bis presence felt on 
the savage. This man and his household were 
left in Larat only three months previously, and 
you can imagine how eagerly we listened to 
their account of how they had established them- 
selves. He himself, his wife, his young child, two 
policemen, their wives, and two hunters of the 
Resident, had to take up quarters in a shed 
on the shore which had served as village tap- 
room, and was only grudgingly conceded. Soon 
tempestuous weather came, and waves washed 
through the shed, drenching them as they lay, 
already prostrate from fever. The natives freely 
came and went, amusing themselves by looking 
on, hut they either could not or would not 
understand their earnest request for water, so 
it was the work of the one of the party least 
feverish for the day to go to the distant w T ell. 
The indifference of the savages was not from 
dislike ; they had simply no idea of helping a 
fellow-creature. 
The immigrants had had a great trial of pati- 
ence in the erection of the house in which we 
sat, then, after three months* residence, not yet 
finished. Encouraging for us, who had no au- 
thority to insist on service, no fiag to set up in 
token of power ! AVlien our friends of the ship 
