The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-08-27

| clared itself as resolved to have its in.
n ings, used to retire to his badly ven
tilated WHARF, and casting aside his
! fax-woven toga lounged beside his fam
lily on the general mat in state OF
natural freedom, until the sun once
more broke from the clouds; or failing
the vicinity of a friendly WHARF, he
went after an enemy to keep himself
warm, if not dry, and consoled himself
for getting drenched by breaking the
sixth commandment. However, after
umbrellas were introduced to his no
tice, and his visitors paid him in
gold for the use of his lands, he no
longer had the same excuse for staying
indoors or ''scofing" an enemy; there
fore he gradually settled down and
gratifed his lawless passions by becom-
ing member of parliament.
But between the stages of man eat
ing and dress suits there were wars and
retaliations between the Pakeha and
the Maori which took away good deal
of the pleasure of living in New Zea-
land.
In the northern island, of which
Auckland is the capital, the natives
were the most contumacious, and deeds
of peculiar atrocity were by no means
uncommon. In the Kauri forests frag-
ments Of human beings were frequent
~ found scattered about as they had
been tossed, after being hacked to
pieces, and, of course, the crimes were
atoHce put down to the original owners
of the land.
On the other side of the bay which
stretched between Auckland and the
kings country, stood shanty or drink
ing shop which also served as the ferry
station. The landlord and his two sons
acted as ferrymen, and did at one time
brisk trade to and from Auckland
city, while the wife acted as hostess;
and as this shanty was the only house
which stood on that side of the water
at the time, she had most of the travel
ers as customers.
Behind the shanty lay the primeval
forest, dense and uncleared, with the
kauri gums rising straight and grace
ful like masts from the underground of
fern trees, supple-jacks and wild mint,
and it was in this scrub that most of
the grewsome discoveries were made.
Travellers were ferried over from the
city, and never came back again, or at
least never came back as they went
away; SO that the mysterious murders
while Tom the Z &rryman
and his two sons had to get most of the
return fare from the police, when they
delivered as much as they could gather
of the dismembered travellers for identi-
fication by their friends. A melancholy
business that ferry must have BEEN
TO take over live men and bring back
ghastly chunks-and the citizens won
tered that these ferrymen's nerves
could stand the constant sh ocks
One day Tom and his sons ferried |
over two young men who had made up
their minds to have few days sport |
with gun and rod in the forest. despite |
is evil repute. They were both Eng
ishmen and new chums, and like Eng
ishmen travelling for pleasure were
pretty free with their money, showed a
rood deal Of it as well as lavish dis
)lay of jewelry, while they laughed |
.asily al the warnings which they re-
eived.
They had their TASKS with them,
therefore, did not hnger at the shantv
when they landed, but struck straight
nut for the forest. and, as they told
Toms wife on their return, had good
port until the rain came on and drove
hem back.
1t was about noon when they re-
urned on the fourth day. after wad-
ng for many hours through the
wamps, with that persistent and bone
hilling downpour saturating them as