Show FEAT PELT OF OP A A BRAVE BRAVI PRIEST Sailed and Steered a Frail FraU Craft 1700 Miles Recently the Rev Father S SM SM SM M an intrepid French missionary la Ia laboring laboring boring in the Solomon islands group piloted a frail craft of oC nineteen tons to Sydney Australia a distance of 1700 miles The heroic priest steered the vessel all the way and successfully ac accomplished accomplished the adventurous and peril perilous perilouS oils ous ouS voyage over a course bestrewn wit with dangers in sixteen days The courageous act ac t of Father Rouil Rouillac lac lae was referred to in a public address addre s by Cardinal Moran who said Only within the last week a missionary from front the Solomon Islands came to Sydney In his little schooner of nineteen tons steering it all the way himself with Wi only eight Ight of his own black ck boys to aid him This intrepid missionary II 11 the spirit which pervades th the themen I II men engaged in the mission in our own I day I might mention that the steamer I I that sails amongst the islands quitted the Solomon group just before the nine schooner left The missionary I was Wag told by nautical men that to ven yen venture venture ture upon such a voyage from the Sol fbI Soil l Onion omon Islands to Sydney Sd ey in inton n A 1 Aton ton schooner an ani 1 with n a q to tc but himself would mean certain ertain death tee But what has been the result We the steamer arrived here they tou that the scho mer two days before them One of the objects of Father Fether F ROUl Ro lacs bars Journey was wu to have hae his vesse vesi paired pal When this became knot knOn kno n I subscription s was started star ed among ping men who admired admi the priest v Priest esl heroism One of the crew is a boy of or i v w x Yi escaped bet being eaten ate by the canni cannibal n by swimming six miles to the mission ml ston station years a ahe ago age the he Mart Ul first landed on the Son Solo and within two years th the n Ila l tIT had hulled and eaten the aad d three or four of the mission fath fathera fathera i iThen era Then the mission was abandon abandoned d for tor a time About two years ago th pent indent t fathers took up the work and andt their ir t tr labors are being Inc crowned with r 1 wonderful success Quite a number r of or tribes Iare are under instruction but t se seer ser ser er l Of r the tb tribes n inland are aff still till Ull ad sd dieted to cannibalism Father lee JAG was wae once surrounded by about forty men in lit canoes It was wu certain d ath i if he had ad ad shown the slightest far fear but bu bulie bute buthe J lie he e di displaYed assumed indifference and 90 so pleased the natives that Instead of or murdering him they led hm hin to their chief thief who treated him with the great greatest est eat honors The natives always alway strike front rom behind as IJ long as you vou ean ca an look iol in the face they appear aVear harm barn harmess less lea ess The launch Is absolutely ly sable sabie to the fathers Without it th thy y not go lO to different parts of th tb coast as a journey Inland at present W would uld mean certain death |