The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
MURDERED BY SAyAGES.
ATTACK ON a MISSIONARY. STATION
IN THE NEW HEBRIDES.
French Traders Gave the Natives Giu-At
Least Three white Men Killed and Prob
ably Eaten-SRVaEes Awed by Mr.. lloyd.

French Traders Gave the Natives Giu-At
Least Three white Men Killed and Prob
ably Eaten-SRVaEes Awed by MIR. Boyd.u
VANCOUVER. b.. c.. Feb. 2I.-The steamship
Victoria has arrived from the New Hebrides,
and Mr.. Bell. a passenger, tells the following
story; 4.aaeisss
Il was n partner IN the conra business with
George Thomas ut Boyd's Station. New Heb
rides. l was talking to the Presbyterian min.
lister. the Rev. Mr.. Boyd. one day, when hetold
me he feared That the natives were going TO
murder all the whites. a9rcss
They accuse us. he continued, OF cuttings
down trees and letting evil spirits out that
their iorefathers imprisoned 200 years ago by
the help of the gods Of the islands. These :
devils. they say, are loose among the islahdsS I
spreading the measles and the plague and nys4s
ing around so quickly in circles that the wind
OF their wings knocks houses down hN ST.
Mr. Boyd had scarcely told this story when ?
200 natives rushed upon US with clubs. dancing
menacingly around us and beating the ground
with their weapons. | saw that they were
drunk, and we ran for our lives and hid
in tho woods. A dozen native converts we're
killed. | waited for the effects OF the LIQUOR
to wear of. and then returned to the station. !
They attacked us again and we could notsn
escape. Harlan and Brewster two Englishs'N
men, aud my partner. Thomas. were clubed
into insensibility and the bodies dragged away.
Thomas was mcrcirully dead. but Harlan and
Brewster were not. fear II cannibal feast fol.'
lowed. Storm and famine have forced the
natives back to savaRery. and cannibalism ish y
natural sequence to the death OF white mena -
The Rev. Mr.. BOYD saved my life and his.
own hv n cool-headed piece of acting. Slipping
into the station he threw on tho gown in which
he was accustomed to preach. and motioning 5
mo to get behind him sang y" Rock of Ages in
a loud voice. all the while holding a cross on
high. Catching the spirit of tie plan | followed
we slowly. trembling In every limb; but with
apparent fearlesSness.w walked through the. mob.
who actually made way, Tor us. We, got into q
boat and rowed on. Talk about Yankee nervei 3
and Boyd's an Englishman. 1859.
We found out subsequently that when the
natives could get no liuuor from the traders
they applied 10 n French steamship in the
harbor, Though knowing that the station was. vi.
In revolt and that murder was being done. tho
Frenchmen supplied them with thirteen. cases
Of gin or 100 large quart bottles. In exchange
for this the French steamship took away n
twenty tons of copra, while an English stean,-
ship in the harbor that refused to give them an
ounce of LIQUOR was not allowed to land O crew.
The French Government should take ac-,
ton, for that French commander is an access
sorry to the horrible" murder. Every white man
has cleared out from the station except the
fearless Boyd. l returned and found the re-,
mains OF Thomas in the woods mutilated. Un-
less n British man has arrived since.
Boyd must surely have been murdered, as no
white man can live on the island" 5