Part 14 (1/2)

Miss Yonge, frooes on to show that the five wounds, of which the first probably proved fatal, while the other four were deliberately inflicted afterwards, were to be explained by native custo leaflets of the palm five knots had been tied Five men in Fiji were known to have been stolen from this island, and there can be little doubt that the relatives were exacting, in native fashi+on, their vengeance from the first European victim who fell into their power The Bishop would have been the first to make allowance for their superstitious error and to lay the bla coedy they sent a special petition that the Colonial Office would not order a bombardment of the island Unfortunately, when a shi+p was sent on a an hostilities and bloodshed ensued But at last the Bishop had by his death secured what he was labouring in his life to effect The Imperial Parliament was stirred to exaulations were enforced which put an end to the abuse

[Note 41: _Life of John Coleridge Patteson_, by Charlotte Yonge, 2 vols (Macmillan, 1874)]

'Quae caret ora cruore nostro?' The Roman poet puts this question in his horror at the wide extension of the civil hich stained with Roman blood all the seas known to the world of his day

Great Britain has its martyrs in a nobler warfare yet more widely spread Not all have fallen by the weapons of war Nature has claiour of unknown climes The death of some is a mystery to this day India, the Soudan, South and West Africa, the Arctic and Antarctic regions, speak eloquently to the men of our race of the spirit which carried them so far afield in the nineteenth century Thanks to its first bishop, the Church of Melanesia shares their falorious chapter enriched by heroism, self-sacrifice, and martyrdom

[Illustration: SIR ROBERT MORIER

Fro by William Richmond]

SIR ROBERT D B MORIER, GCB, PC

1826-93

1826 Born at Paris, March 31

1832-9 Childhood in Switzerland

1839-44 With private tutors

1845-9 Balliol College, Oxford

1850 Clerk in Education Office

1853 Attache at Vienna Ee with Alice, daughter of General Jonathan Peel

1865 Coe d'Affaires at Frankfort

1866-71 Charge d'Affaires at Dar

1871 Charge d'Affaires at Stuttgart

1872-6 Charge d'Affaires at Munich

1875 Danger of second Franco-German War

1876 Minister at Lisbon

1881 Minister at Madrid 1882 KCB

1884 Bismarck vetoes Morier as Ambassador to Berlin

1885-93 Aaria, Batum, and Black Sea troubles

1887 GCB 1889 DCL, Oxford

1891 Appointed A

1893 Death at Montreux Funeral at Batchworth

ROBERT MORIER