Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
On the voyage he wrote to the Bishop of Lichfield: 'Off Tariko. Sloop: July 8, 1871. 'My dear Bishop, Towards the end of April I left Norfolk Island, and after a six days' passage reached Mota.
At Tariko, where he had been three years before with the Primate, the Episcopal hat brought the greeting 'Bishop, as the people no doubt thought the wearer identical.
'But if you like I will scatter anecdotes about of how the Bishop and his chaplain took headers hand in hand off the schooner and roundhouse; and how the Bishop got knocked over at Leper's Island by a big wave; and how I borrowed a canoe at Tariko and paddled out yams as fast as the Bishop brought them to our boat, &c. but this is rubbish.
'Sunday morning we were at the entrance of the passage between Ambrym and Mallicolo, without a breath of wind. We had service at 10 A.M.; and in the afternoon, psalms and hymns and chants in the cabin, the Bishop doing most of the singing. 'June 6th. On Monday morning we landed at the old place at Tariko. We began to buy some yams.
Bice was left to make a fortnight's visit at Leper's Island; and the Bishop, going on to Mai, found only three men on the beach, where there used to be hundreds, and was advised not to go to Tariko, as there had been fighting. At Ambrym there was a schooner with Mr. Thurston on board, and fifty- five natives for Fiji. On the north coast was the 'Isabella, with twenty-five for Queensland.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking