Eureka Reporter | 1905-04-07 | Page 6 | Island of Tristan D'acunha

ISLAND OF TRISTAN chere Huma BeIno live a lif utmost isolation one of the most isolated colonies ot civilized human beings on the face of the earth Is that on the island ol 01 tristan dacunha which lies almost midway between the cape pi good hope and cape horn lonel iland lies in such a position that it misses both eastern and western end the islanders receive only the larest visits from a whaler and nally from a british warship the number about seventy aw are descendants of sailors cast an a handful of soldiers left aff the island when it was garriso a company of british artillery during the time of the great bonaparte Bont parte s ex lie at st helena when kerry a british capitalist tristan twelve years ago he found a sailor green installed asi ahe ahlet man the islanders aws church or money but ty ct cattee and and even grapes gaan they raise this island Is with rats rhe people are coarse and rather childish in alaj very honert and harda j i