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Cheerful Antipodean Truth Teller

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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An ex-sea captain, now living in Sydney, many years ago was in charge of a snip carrying some convicts. The convicts mutinied, murdering the crew, and ordered the captain to navlgate them to the islands, and, being a prudent man, he dld so. When satlsfied ae to their course, the convicts deliberated, decided that he had behaved himself well and put him ashoro on the first large island they carne to. He was a musician, and took his violin wlth him. A threatening crowd of savages greeted his arrival, but Orpheus played to them till they thought him a god, brought him unlimited pigs and yams, and bowed in adoration. Finally he married the chief's daughter, succeeded him and ruled the island for years, till a ship called in, and h sailed

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News