Three Years in Tristan da Cunha

se with big flat stones and had a bevy of little boys helping. I much delighted them by giving each

arrying a wet stone. "Bus" is the island word for "wheelbarrow." While the paving was going on, I thought with William's assistance I would plant ferns in the wall. Hearing roots were wanted the children began bringing all sorts. Before school some nasturtiums were brought, then Sophy came with a large pink geranium. There is a little berry (th

rips from the leaf. I am going to use the mat in church for the boards are very hard to kneel upon. It is green and looks very artistic. I contemplat

rshalling us beneath it, Graham taught boys and girls how to "hurrah." He was in his element. Afterwards he gave the boys a lesson in skipping, and quite surprised me by his agility. One or two tried and much enjoyed it, but the rest w

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nd the Bluff. He brought back some eaglet eggs, and sent us three which we had for supper. They are about as big as a duck's egg, white in colour

only about fifty minute

et this evening; the sea was the colour of i

ntment were almost immediately told that it was too far east to catch. Another, a large four-masted one

started laundry work directly after breakfast, and had all the things out

addition. To add one on to three is at times an impossible task. But if you say three cows

s had gone to warn Graham. Before long we could see him returning with them. He had not got into any difficulty, but the men had thought it was not a safe part to go to alone. We had intended going that way to-morrow for a Whitsuntide holiday, but the men think it unwise, so we are going in the opposite direction towa

s and undertaking the saucepans! I only missed school one day. The elder infants are getting on nicely; the parents of some are teaching them at home, and they are beginning now to read small words. Most of the girls bring their knitting, and during the interval sit on stones under the low wall and knit away till the bell rings

lf-brothers. He comes three or four times a day to ask if he can do anything, and generally when we are h

this salt, when they have no other, for their butter, which it does not at all improve; but the butter brought to us is generally unsalted. They never make salt unless driven to it because the process involve

ur for a sick baby. So far we have found the people more ready to give than to ask. Another

asked the infants why Adam and Eve hid themselves among the t

e has quite a library, from which he has selected as a suitable book to lend to Graham, William Penn's Fruits of Solitude in Refl

o church wearing white silk handkerchiefs instead of hats. I f

labour we have taught them a "Gloria" and a "Venite." On the whole they are quick in learning a tune, but it must first be sung to them. At to-day's practice two mothers appeared upon the scene to see what we were doing. Some of the boys