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Her eye fell on the words: "And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice." Somehow the mention of the lost sheep brought to her mind the little lost child on the beach at Codrington Dolly, who had "putted on" her own hat, who had wanted to be independent and to dig by herself. She had run away from home, and could not find the way back.
Codrington, a thorough Nelsonian, to use his own somewhat factious expression used to say in later years, "Lord Nelson was no seaman; even in the earlier stages of the profession his genius had soared higher, and all his energies were turned to becoming a great commander."
The ground slopes away from these two houses for some 200 yards or more to a little stream; and this slope is all covered with sweet potatoes and vegetables, and Codrington and Palmer have planted any number of trees, bushes, flowers, &c. Everything grows, and grows luxuriantly. Such soil, such a climate!
These superstitions are common to all classes of the population of this province. In the New Hebrides disease and death are caused, as Mr. Codrington found, by tamates, or ghosts. In New Caledonia, according to Erskine, death is the result of witchcraft practised by members of a hostile tribe, for who would be so wicked as to bewitch his fellow-tribesman?
Bice rode down to see if it really was the schooner, and was back to breakfast, all thinking we should soon see them come up. 'Mr. Codrington and Mr. Bice got their horses ready to ride down, and I got the rooms ready, when, in an hour, a Norfolk Island boy rode up to say the flag was half-mast high.
Codrington could take that entirely into his own hands. I might spend a month or two there, and confirm Melanesians and Norfolk Islanders, and quietly fall into a less responsible position and be a moveable clergyman in Fiji or anywhere else, as long as my strength lasts. 'Norfolk Island certainly was rather my resting-place.
I had cited the same judicious writer to the same effect, and had compiled a number of instances in which the errors of travellers were exposed, and their habitual fallacies were detected. Fifteen closely printed pages were devoted by me to a criterion of evidence, and a reply to Mr. Max Muller's oft-repeated objections. Codrington taking the same precautions in Melanesia as Mr.
Meantime the spirit of enquiry and faith was making-marked progress. Mr. Codrington says: 'The stir in the hearts and minds of those already christened might be called a revival, and the enquiring and earnest spirit of many more seemed to be working towards conversions.
Our author often returns to the weakness of the evidence of travellers and missionaries. Concerning Missionaries Here is an example of a vivacite in our censor. Yet on this very page Mr. Max Muller has been citing the 'difficulties' which do 'trouble' a 'missionary, Dr. Codrington. And, for my own part, when I want information about Melanesian beliefs, it is to Dr. Codrington's work that I go.
Codrington found a similar practice, and here the sticks are explicitly said by the natives to be moved by spirits. The wizard and a friend hold a bamboo stick by each end, and ask what man's ghost is afflicting a patient. At the mention of the right ghost 'the stick becomes violently agitated. In the same way, the bamboo 'would run about' with a man holding it only on the palms of his hands.
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