Manam islanders knew Mambu: but they could not admit to being led or influenced by a mere bush-Kanaka.

A yellowish or greenish micaceous mineral, observed originally at Stenna Gwynn and since found in several china-stone districts in Cornwall, as at St. Austell and Breage, has been distinguished by the name of Gilbertite — a name given by Dr. Thomas Thomson, in compliment to Davies Gilbert, the Cornish philospher, who was, at one time President of the Royal Society (b. 1767, d. 1839.)

The common herd of mortals invent excuses : they shuffle like a May-day sweep, and lie like the prospectus of a new Magazine.

If only she could get him to stop m’ladying her...