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Updated: May 29, 2025
Among those natives inhabiting the sandy drifts along the western coast, where the sand is always circling about in a perfect shower, I have no doubt but that many become blind from its effects. In October, 1839, Mr. Moorhouse found nine inhabitants in two huts to the south; out of these, five were quite blind, and one had lost one eye; they were occupied in making nets.
In the Adelaide district, Mr. Moorhouse has observed, that there are five stages to be passed through, before the native attains the rank of a bourka, or full grown man. At from twelve to fourteen, the third stage is entered, by having the ceremony of circumcision performed, which takes place in the following manner.
Moorhouse has found that numerical names are given to children when first born, in the order of birth, a variation in the termination constituting the distinction of name for male or female, thus:
'If I met that man in a room, I should be curious about him; I should see at once that he didn't belong to the vulgar; I should desire to hear him speak. And the Warricombes were not lacking in discernment. He would compare more than favourably with Mr. Moorhouse, whose aspect, bright and agreeable enough, made no promise of originality. It must be time to go down.
Sidwell was regarding him with calm but earnest eyes, and he knew, without caring to reflect, that his latest projects were crumbling. 'Have you been to see our friends at Budleigh Salterton yet? she asked. 'Not yet. I hope to in a few days. Pursuing the subject, he was able to examine her face as she spoke of Mr. Moorhouse. His conjecture was assuredly baseless.
In these few moments of dialogue, Godwin reached the conclusion that Sidwell had not much sense of humour, but that the delicacy of her mind was unsurpassable. In Miss Moorhouse there was no defect of refinement, but her conversation struck a note of sprightliness at once more energetic and more subtle than is often found in English girls.
Moorhouse has found that numerical names are given to children when first born, in the order of birth, a variation in the termination constituting the distinction of name for male or female, thus:
Feminine expressions of sympathy were not to be expected from Miss Moorhouse; far more reassuring to Sidwell was the kind attentiveness with which her friend bent forward. 'That letter father handed me to-day was from Mr. Peak. 'You hear from him? 'This is the third time since he went away. At our last meeting' her voice dropped 'I pledged my faith to him. Not absolutely.
Recognising this, Bishop Moorhouse is endeavouring both to shame Churchmen into raising the stipend of their clergy, and to procure for the congregations not only English gentlemen, but as far as possible hard-working, practical, broad-minded men.
His needs were quickly supplied, and before long he was smoking by the library fire. 'I was writing to Sylvia, said his sister, glancing at her fragmentary letter. 'Oh! 'You know she is at Salisbury? 'Salisbury? No, I didn't. His carelessness proved to Sidwell that she was wrong in conjecturing that his journey had something to do with Miss Moorhouse.
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