"Very likely," replied the beach-comber. "Never heard of the parties. They're superstitious beggars, these Kanekas. You've heard of buying a thing 'for a song'? Well, I got my station for a whistle. They believe that spirits twitter and whistle, and you'll hardly get them to go out at night, even with a boiled potato in their hands, which they think good against ghosts, for fear of hearing the bogies. So I just went whistling, 'Bonny Dundee' at nights all round the location I fancied, and after a week of that, not a nigger would go near it. They made it over to me, gratis, with an address on my courage and fortitude. I gave them some blankets in; and that's how real property used to change hands in the Pacific." Footnotes: {1} From Wandering Sheep, the Bungletonian Missionary Record. {6} 1884. Date unknown. Month probably June. {23a} The original text of this prophecy is printed at the close of Mr. Gowles's narrative. {23b} It has been suggested to me that some travelled priest or conjurer of this strange race may have met Europeans, seen hats, spectacles, steamers, and so forth, and may have written the prophecy as a warning of the dangers of our civilization. In that case the forgery was very cunningly managed, as the document had every appearance of great age, and the alarm of the priest was too natural to have been feigned. {25} How terribly these words were afterwards to be interpreted, the reader will learn in due time. {30} I afterwards found it was blue smalt. {74} I have never been able to understand Mr. Gowles's infatuation for this stuck-up creature, who, I am sure, gave herself airs enough, as any one may see.--MRS. GOWLES. {76} This was the name of a native vintage. {95} Mr. Gowles was an ardent Liberal, but at the time when he wrote, the Union Jack had not been denounced by his great leader. We have no doubt that, at a word from Mr. Gladstone, he would have sung, Home Rule, Hibernia!--ED. Wandering Sheep. {106} From Wandering Sheep. {124} From Mr. E. Myers's "Pindar." {128} Poor Figgins always called M. Baudelaire "the Master." {208} His photograph, thus arrayed, may be purchased at Mentone. {256} "Lift" is English for "elevator," or "elevator" is American for "lift." {261} This article was originally written for "Mind," but the author changed his. The reference is to Kant's Philosophy. {265} A similar phenomenon is mentioned in Mr. Howell's learned treatise, "An Undiscovered Country." {283} A chapter from Prof. Boscher's "Post-Christian Mythology." Berlin and New York, A.D. 3886. {284} Both these names are undoubtedly Greek neuter substantives. {285a} Lieblein speaks ("Egyptian Religion," 1884, Leipzig,) of "the mythical name Jo." Already had Continental savants dismissed the belief in a historical Jo, a leader of the Demos. {285b} There seems to be some mistake here.