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Show j ISLAND OF TRISTAN D'ACUNHA. Where Human Beings Live a Life of Ulmeit lielstion. One of the most Isolated colonies of elvllirnd human beings on the farn of the earlb la that on tho Inland of Tristan d'Acunha, which Ilea almost midway between the Cape of (food Hope and Cape Horn This lonely Island Ilea In such a position that It misses both eastern and western ships and the Islanders receive only the rarcM visits from ii whaler and occasionally occa-sionally from a llrltlsh warship The Inhabitants number about irvmty and m desrendanta of sailors, castaways ami n handful of soldiers left on the Island when It waa garrisoned b a eompan) of llrltlsh artillery during Ihe time of the great llontrarte'a ex lie at Kl Helena When T C Kerry, a ,tlrlilh cstltsllst. visited Tristan .welve tears ago he found a aallnr ramed Ir.en Installed as the chief man The Inlanders have no laws, rhuirli or mom) but they Me pirn t) f rattle and rale potatoes and i tin arapi-a flruln they cinnoi rale, as thla Island Is Infested will rata The people arc cnireo Mined and rather childish In reamer, but tery honest and linrdworl Ing |