The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-26

discovered and taken away by the crew
of the John Bun.
when discovered Narcisse was stark
naked, like the rest of the tribe of blacks
with whom he was living, his body was
burned by Inc sun to a rich red color. his
skin had quite a glazed appearance, anu
his breaSd was adorned with raised lines
of scarifed flesh of the thickness of a
pencil, while the lobe of his right ear
was ornamented with piece of wood
about half an inch in diameter and four
inches long. The cuts on his breast, of
which he was very proud, were made with
pieces of broken glass bottles, the lips of
the cuts being raised by process of con-
slant pinchiug during the healing process
The sailors who brought him off were
under the impression that he came willing
ly and that the savages understood that
he was being ransomed with trade. Mar
cisse, however, stated that the, sailors
labOred under a misconception, and that
neither did the natives wish him TO go
nor did he himself wish to leave In fact
a the time he would much rather have
remained with the tribe, but that both he
and the blacks were afraid of The guns in
The boat lie said that for long time
a very long time-after his desertion by
the captain his thoughts continually re-
verted to France and to his father and
mother and little brothers; but as years
rolled on these faded from his memory
and he became thoroughly identified with
the kindly blacks.
His account of his life among tine
blacks is necessarily meager. partly be-
cause he had some difficulty in express
ing his ideas in French, and partly, pos
siby. because there was too much to tell.
His life, like that of the men of the tribe
appeared to have been principally passed
in fishing and hunting, the monotony be-
ing occasionally varied by fight with
neighboring tribe"
What became of Narcisse after his ar
rival in France is not known. If I am
not very much mistaken there was on
board the Brisbane, when Narcisse ap-
peared, Lord Stanmore 0hen Sir Arthur
Gordon), who was on his way to Fiji as It's
first Governor, and the incident would be
familiar to him.
1t is a somewhat curious coincidence
that one James Murrel, an English sailor.
whose story was told last year in the Pail
Mall Gazette" should have been cast
away on the coast of North Queensland
in 1S49-nine years previously-and have
lived with the blacks for seventeen years
before he was discovered Murrell was
an a. Il. on the bark Peruvian bound
from Sydney to China, which ran ashore
on the Barrier Reef, and he was captured
by tribe of blacks in the vicinity of
Cape Marlowe. He was very kindly treat
ed, and after his return TO civilization A
narrative of his adventures was published
by the Brisbane Courier OS65). Thus.
while Pellatier was living among the
blacks inhab.ting the coastal region OF
Cape Sidmouth, Murrell was living with the
Cape Marlowe tribe, 500 miles 10 the south
ward, and near the present city of Towns
Vile. Pellater, after his arrival In
France. published a narrative OF his adj
ventures, and the two authentic tales
there is no doubt, largely helped a recent
amazing romancist to fabricate his tale
Of thirty years among the Australian
blacks. But Pellater's ana Murrell's ad
ventures are as authentic as the other
mans are fictitious. The official records
of Queensland prove il.