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from the grave. I am one of eight men who were saved from the ship that 
was lost. Those eight men, including myself, were taken on hoard another 
vessel, where there were twenty-three men, and these twenty-three men took 
us to the port of Melbourne, where we were all landed safe and sound. I 
now come forward to claim the estates.” But not one single living soul ever 
heard of any one of those men, or ever had a line from them, and from that 
hour to this there has been a dead, unbroken silence with regard to these 
thirty-one men. Now I say that any man who could believe that story, 
because this claimant remembered a number of trifles, has just that want 
of the proper knowledge of the principles of evidence which belong to a 
man of a very low condition of intellect. The habit of testing evidence, 
and of being sceptical, is rather more important than the habit of swallowing 
evidence without examination. (Cheers.) 
The Meeting was then adjourned. 
