The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-09


Of a recently buried chief. Luckily for
stitiously concluded that her dear de-
parted had returned to life in me shape
OF a white man. She promptly annexed
MIN A. her own, led him 10 the camp
OF n blacks. explained the circum-
stances under which she had found him
and secured his admission as a chieI
OF the tribe. a position for which he was
physically well qualified. as he was a
man OF great stature (six rect seven
inches). strength and endurance.
For the next 80 years Buckley leo the
life OF a savage. hunting, fishing ana
lighting with the tribe that adopted
him. He does not appear to have
taught the blacks anything or raised
them In n degree in the scale OF
civilization. He simply became n OF
themselves and adapted himseif 10 MS
new environments in every respect
perhaps his best and wisest course un-
der the circumstances. IL was on July
IL. 1885. that he saw n white race tor
the first time after the lapse or more
III 30 years. On that day the pio.
neers Of the city OF Melbourne landed
from their little schooner and buckley
advanced to meet them. He a by
this time become but little superior TO
the around him. but the new
COVERS noticed the comparatively light
color of his skin. He tried to summon
up some English words from the depths
OF his memory. and AT last succeeded
In articulating the word bread" He
made himself very useful as an inter-
prefer between the new white settlers
and the blacks. and when his story
reached London the imperial author-
tiles magnanimously drew the sponge
owe his offense and sent him n free
pardon. He drew a small pension In his
later wears and lived until Fen. :. 1895:
when he was thrown out of a cart
killed. in his 18th year. The site or the
present town OF Geelong. about 40 miles
from Melbourne. was the headquarters
of the tribe to which Buckley was at
tached during his three decades OF
savage life. Three miles from Gee
long there Is still shown a cave In a
river gorge where he is said TO have
resided. and the adjacent rapids con-
tinue to perpetuate his name as Buck
ley's falls.
James Morrill,. a native Of Maldon.
Essex. was the sole survivor OF the
shipwreck of the bark Peruvian. that
struck on n reef off the northeastern
coast OF Queensland on March ), 1875.
He lived with the Queensland blacks
until his rescue in February. 1863. An
other shipwrecked sailor. John Renton
by name. was with the
blacks for an even longer period. 20
years. The story of a little cabin BOY
named Narcisse Pierre Pellatier ought
To have attracted the attention or the
boys novelists long before now. He
engaged as cabin boy on the ST. Paul.
bound from China to Australia. with
$50 Chinese emigrants. She also struck
on n reef off the northeastern coast OF
Queensland. officers and crew got
away I'm the boats. not troubling them
selves about the Chinese passengers
and / in their hurry forgetting the little
cabin boy. who was subsequently found
nv the blacks in n dying condition In a
Granny among the rocks. They nurseo
him back to life. fed him. treated MN
well and. in fact, made him the pet or
the tribe. Nearly all the Chinese pas
sengers were captured by the blacks
| and eaten up two at a time. the nesh
Of the Cinnamon is esteemed as a great
lelicacy by the cannibal blacks OF
Queensland. From the point OF view
~ n cannibal. a vegetarian Is vastly
superior to n meat eater. Little Pella-
tier lived with the blacks for "a ''.;rs
| and was rescued by n British ship. the
John Pull. on April II. 1875. He imme-
diateIy returned TO France. where re
NAV be still living. He would be now a
| man of between 80 and CO.,