The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1885-10-17

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with = solitary mpuuiAih . Thousand
leet high rearIag liself irpm Tho midst
Weeks, and aUm,tlmas even months
alapss without N much ~ NE flm N a
nip = sall being eipled IN me- distance
rom Ne shores
Vt m The lonely speek N rock and
earth, there lives . bright. eheotful,
thrifty Christian community whirh II.
,femingly quite happy In n Isolation
frpm ali The rest n The world There
are about " hundred inhabitants, M
kngllshman and E~nglishw0mon This
oldest %lnhabliaut il . man ~ seventy.
eight, who Wa wrecked on ihe island
my years ago, and has ever since dwelt
there, aud has become the patriarch NJ
the little company
An English captain, returning from a
long voyage In the course NJ which he
anchored NJ Tristan, has recently given
4 very Interesting account NJ the COM
munlty Those who compose II are
n aud oil farmers, cattle. %raisers. and
shepherds IN the valley Of the island
are fertile fields, whore potatoes ara
grown On the slopes were grazing some
seven hundred head Ut cattle and as
many sheep. The food of the people
consist for the most part ~ beef, nut.
Ton, fowls, potatoes and fish.
As TO the dwellings, they are describ.
I'd IA being kept very clean and tidy, rs
we might expect from English people,
and the people themselves ARE healthy,
robust and long.liyed They have somo
whhliDg-boats, and are very adventur.
Gus In their s%ea.roamlng after whales.
They sometimes row rs far NJ twenty
miles out to intercept n passing ship
II is often the case that that region Il
hssailed by mighty tcmpcsts Of wind,
while the island Is subject at times 10
what are called the ''r0llersn huge
masses Of high-raised water which fair.
ly inundate the lofty shores.
Tristan used formerly TO produce many
fruits and vegetables which can no Ion
ger DO grown there. The reason Of thi'
II that the island Is oycrrun by rats
which escaped from u ship that anchor
ed thore, and which tho people hay,
never been able to exterminate.
The people have preserved the Gus
toms Of their English native land, II
he center Of the settlement stands tn
little English church, 10 which all tb
Inhabitants repair on Sunday mornings
Thus the church-bells Of England an,
the prayer and praise Of the HON
churches find n faint echo across III
leagues Of ocean which stretch betweeI
the mothorland and the lonely rock q
the Southern sea-.
The people Of Tristan, solitary AS thel
Island Is, steadfnsily refuse 10 leave II
They look upon II as their home; to som
IL Is their native land. The ships whic
now and then touch upon It's shores |
vain offer 10 bring them back TO III
haunts OF civilization They have grow
TO love their loneliness, and { o be COZ
tent with n lot which Is strange aud pr
thctlc indeed. - Youths Componion.