Show LANGUAGE AMONG SAVAGES C a Wit rn Retain Command of B1s other Tongue i Isolation The question whether It Is Possible to I retain a knowledge ofthe English language lan-guage after a sojourn df thIrty yeas with Australian savages Is one Qf the mot interesting questions raised in connection with the remarkable career of Luis de Rougemont says the London Lon-don Chronicle Some light is cast upon i in the autobiographies of James 1101 I nil a native of Maldon Essex who Sent aeventeen years with the blacks of northeaster Australia and William Buckley of racclesford who lived for thirtytwo year with the blacks Dc scribing hIs deliverance Jori says I looked at the sheep but could not see the shepherd so I went farther on and came to a water hole where I washed myself to mate myself as white as possIble I went on still farther till I saw the smoke of fire In a hut and head noises I dId not know what to do and how best to make myself known I took courage and called out What cheer shipmates Two men came out one with a gun I sad Do not shoot me I am a British sUbject a shipwrecked sailor Of course I meant subject but In the excitement of the moment I did not know what I sad They crossquestoned me and I told them wen and where I was wrecked and all about my misfortunes I They asked me whether I knew what day and date It was I told them no They told me it was Saturday the 25th I day of January lEG3 They reckoned back to 1846 when I was lost and told me i was seventeen years and asked me if I thoUght it vas that long I sad no not half so long On the other had Buckley writes That nIght was one of great anxiety to me for I knew not how to apprise the strangers or ii lous situation situa-tion as the least appearance 01 such an intention would tothe natives have seemed Jt treachery ly reflections were very paInful for I was of course aware of having long forgotten the language of my youth The white men could not mae me oaf At length one of them came up and naked me some questions whIch I could not understand but when he offered me brad calling it by name a cloud ap peare to pas from over my braIn and I soon repeated that and other English words after him |