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

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

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.)