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In one island alone of the Ellice group "the men are heavily bearded, and not a little proud thereof." Dr. Barnard Davis quotes Mr. Prichard and others for these facts in regard to the Polynesians, in 'Anthropolog. We thus see how widely the different races of man differ in their taste for the beautiful.
A hunting-party Out on the floes Hardships. Among the many schemes that were planned and carried out for lightening the long hours of confinement to their wooden home in the Arctic Regions, was the newspaper started by Fred Ellice, and named, as we have already mentioned, the Arctic Sun.
The number of sovereign states, dependencies, as well as territories, federal districts and states of the United States of America, where the Bahá’í Marriage Certificate is recognized is now over thirty, the latest additions being Vietnam, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Indonesia and Liberia.
New-year's Day came, and preparations were made to celebrate the day with the usual festivities. But the recent death had affected the crew too deeply to allow them to indulge in the unrestrained hilarity of that season. Prayers were read in the morning, and both Captain Guy and Captain Ellice addressed the men feelingly in allusion to their late shipmate's death and their own present position.
"Send for me, and I will come," he had written; and she had not sent. She would not, pride forbade it, and yet yet to be happy as Ellice was happy, to feel his arms about her, to rest her head against his breast, to know that during all the years to come he would be here by her side, that loneliness would never touch her again. "I won't!" she said. "I won't!
About midway between Fort Ellice and Carlton a sudden and well-defined change occurs in the character of the country; the light soil disappears, and its place is succeeded by a rich dark loam covered deep in grass and vetches.
'May I speak to you in private? He showed the way to an unoccupied room. 'I think you know Mr. Ellice? 'Glenquoich, do you mean? 'Yes. 'Oh, very well he always stays here on his way through. 'I am his step-son; I left Glenquoich yesterday. I have lost my luggage, and am left without any money.
Singleton, who was the fattest and jolliest old gentleman in the place, and the very idol of dogs and boys, who loved him to distraction. Captain Ellice, having had, as he said, "more than his share of the sea," resolved to live on shore, and, being possessed of a moderately comfortable income, he purchased Mrs. Bright's cottage on the green hill that overlooked the harbour and the sea.
"A horrible, fierce-looking beast," said Connie. "It fights with every dog in the place, and " "But it loves him; it loves its master," Ellice said passionately. "It would die for its master, wouldn't it?" "Why, I daresay it would, Gipsy," Johnny said. "But why so excited about it, little girl?"
But they soon got tired and took to their boats agin, and left. Mrs Ellice, however, determined to remain and help the native Christians, till a ship should pass that way. For three years nothin' but canoes hove in sight o' that lonesome island; then, at last a brig came, and cast anchor offshore.
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