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A call for careful navigation Three hours' steering in twenty-three days Arrival at the Keeling Cocos Islands A curious chapter of social history A welcome from the children of the islands Cleaning and painting the Spray on the beach A Mohammedan blessing for a pot of jam Keeling as a paradise A risky adventure in a small boat Away to Rodriguez Taken for Antichrist The governor calms the fears of the people A lecture A convent in the hills.
APRIL 1st. We arrived in view of the Keeling or Cocos Islands, situated in the Indian Ocean, and about six hundred miles distant from the coast of Sumatra. When the ship was in the channel at the entrance, Mr. Liesk, an English resident, came off in his boat. The history of the inhabitants of this place, in as few words as possible, is as follows. About nine years ago, Mr.
Six German sailors from the Emden had been placed on board the Tahiti at Colombo; and from them Mac heard something of the battle how the Sydney had surprised them when they had some boats' crews away destroying the wireless and cable stations at Cocos Islands; how the Emden had been beached and raked by the Sydney's terrible broadsides; and the sufferings of the wounded before they were taken off.
Workhouses and Malacca canes have still to be tried. Bishop Gell's plan for colonising the Laccadives and Cocos with these loafers has not met with much acceptance at Simla.
Got out steam mills, circular saws, lathes, etc., and established a system of general education with a younger brother as head-master an' tail-master too, for I believe there was only one. He also taught the men to work in brass, iron, and wood, and his wife a Cocos girl that he married after comin' out taught all the women and girls to sew, cook, and manage the house.
Of the fruits and trees that be here I cannot now speake, for I should make another letter as long as this. For hitherto I haue not seene a tree here whose like I haue seene in Europe, the vine excepted, which neuerthelesse here is to no purpose, so that all the wines are brought out of Portugall. The drinke of this countrey is good water, or wine of the Palme tree, or of a fruit called Cocos.
Got out steam mills, circular saws, lathes, etcetera, and established a system of general education with a younger brother as head-master an' tail-master too, for I believe there was only one. He also taught the men to work in brass, iron, and wood, and his wife a Cocos girl that he married after comin' out taught all the women and girls to sew, cook, and manage the house.
She had, however, lost her own attendant colliers about 25 October, and a raid on the Cocos or Keeling islands on 9 November was interrupted by the arrival of H.M.S. Sydney, which had been warned by wireless, on her way from Australia. In less than two hours the Sydney's 6-in. guns had battered the Emden to pieces, and with only 18 casualties had killed or wounded 230 of the enemy.
In this upper region coarse grasses and ferns abound; but there are no tree-ferns: I saw nowhere any member of the palm family, which is the more singular, as 360 miles northward, Cocos Island takes its name from the number of cocoa-nuts. The houses are irregularly scattered over a flat space of ground, which is cultivated with sweet potatoes and bananas.
Is this a cocos palm?" said I, rejoicing; and forthwith doffing my sword belt, I clambered up this tree hand over fist and had soon plucked and tossed down a sufficiency of great, green nuts about the bigness of my two fists.
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