The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1912-01-26

up from Neal island. He said he'd
promised 1t to you. It's first class
niger chaser Hadn't been on board
two minutes when he had my whole
boats crew in the rigging. Tommy
calls him Satan. Jack Henley was
killed at Marovo lagoon two months
ago. The news just came down on
the Apostle"
"Where is Marovo lagoon?" Joan
asked
New Georgia. couple of hundred
miles to the westward" Sheldon an
swered. ''Bougainville lies just be-
yond."
ellis own house boys did it," Young
went on; "but they were put up to it
by the Marovo natives. His Santa
Cruz boats crew escaped in the whale
boat to Choiseul, and Mather. in the
Lily, sailed over to Marovo. He burn
,ed village and got Henleys head
back. He found it in one of the houses
where the niggers had it drying Anu
that's all the news I've got. except
that there's lot of new Lee-Enfields
loose on the eastern end Of Ysabel. NJ
body knows how the natives got them.
The government ought to investigate.
Ah-Oh, yeS-a war vessels in the
group, the Cambrian. She burned three
villages at Bina-on account Of the Mi
nota, you knOw-and shelled the bush.
Then she went to Sio to straighten out
things there
The conversation became general,
and just before Young left to go on
board Joan asked:
How can you manage all alone,
Mr. Young?'
His large, almost girlish eyes rested
q her for moment before he re
piled. and then it was in the softest
and gentlest Of voices
'Oh, l get along pretty we'll with
them. OF course, there is bit of
trouble once i'll awhile, but that must
be expected. You must never let them
think you are afraid. I've been afraid
plenty of times, but they never knew
it,
"You would think he wouldn't strike
a mosquito that was biting him.
Sheldon said when Young had gone
on board. IAN the Norfolk islanders
that have descended from the Bounty
crowd are that way. But look at
Young. Only three years ago, when
he first got the Minerva. he was lying
in SUI, ON Malaita There are a lot
of returned Queensanders there-a
rough crowd. They planned to get
his head The son of their chief, old
One Eyed Billy. had recruited on
Lunga and died Of dysentery That
meant that a white mans head was
owing to Suu-any white man. it
didn't matter who. so long as they got
the head. And Young was only lad
and they made sure to get his easily.
They decoyed his whaleboat ashore
with promise Of recruits and killed
all hands. At the same instant the
SUI gang that was on board the Mi
nerva jumped Young. He was just
preparing dynamite stick for fish,
and he lighted it and tossed it in
among them. One can't get him to
talk about it, but the fuse was short.
the survivors leaped overheard, while
he slipped his anchor and got away.
They've got 100 fathoms Of shell
money on his head now. which is
worth f1OO. Yet he goes into SUI reg
ularly. He was there short time ago,
returning thirty boys from Cape Marsh
that's the Fulcrum brothers planta-
ton"
lat any rate, his news tonight has
given me better insight into the life
down here" Joan said. And it is
colorful life. to say the least. The
Solomons ought to be printed red on
the charts-and yellow, too, for the
diseases"
'The Solomons are not always like
this" Sheldon answered. "Of course,
Berande is the worst plantation and
everything it gets is the worst. All
the old timers shake their heads at It,
They say it has what you Americans
call hoodoo on it."
"Berande will succeed" Joan said
stoutly. II like to laugh at supersti-
ton. You'll pull through and come
out the big end of the horu. The ill
though, the SolomOns is not white
mans climate
"It will be. though. Give US fifty
years, and when all the. bush is
cleared off back to the mountains,
fever will be stamped out. everything
will be far healthier. There will be
cities and towns here, for there's an
immense amount of good land going