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Excerpt from The Shepherd Saint of Lanai Rich Primacy Revelations, Gathered From Various Sources and Produced in Historical Shape for the First Time in the Saturday Press, Dec: 24, 1881 to Jan, 14, 1882
The 'few but significant facts which we have now given to the world, do not furnish all of the highly colored pigments with which to paint the picturesque character of the Oceanic Moses. The se quel of his career in these Islands may possibly correspond with the beginning of that career in countries more highly favored with his youthful and untamed activities. It makes us mindful of the posi tive assertion of the poet regarding a certain kind of vase, that if it were crushed the perfume that had filled it would remain with the broken fragments. Whatever adverse circumstances may have oc curred, the same insatiable desire to become a Moses to some people in the great tranquil sea has fused and burned in the morn ing, noon, and now in the evening of life.
The printed report of the House of Representatives, (u. S. Ne: =307, (34th Congress, lst Session, is an extraordinary docu ment. It covers three hundred and fourteen pages of printed mat ter relating solely to difficulties between Walter M. Gibson and the Dutch Government. As it would be impossible to make even ex tracts from it here, we shall briefly' note some Of the salient points, leaving those who are curious to the perusal of the material gather ed together ih those pages.
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