with odd shaped brick, puzzled the antiquarians. But it is now decided that it is a secret "cache" like some used in Europe for storing valuables or provisions. It is thought to be the only one in America.

Remains of several very old vessels are scattered along the shore near Pemaquid. Some of the timbers have been found embedded in the sand, thus keeping them from the ravages of the worms. Scattered over these wrecks are sometimes found limestone, coquina and fit probably for ballast, showing that they came from foreign shores. One of these is conjectured to be that of the "Angel Gabriel," known to have been wrecked here in August, 1635. We must speak of the old graveyard. It is said that there are many more graves outside of it than in it, and there are graves upon graves.

The oldest gravestone bears the date of 1695 and has the inscription "H. M.-1695," said to be for Sergeant Hugh March, killed by the Indians. One bearing date of 1768 has the following:

"Behold my dad is gone

And leaves me here to morn
But hope in Christ I have
That he and I will save."

The graves of many of the original settlers are believed to be here but all unmarked and forgotten long ago. Many have been the times when men in digging one grave

have unearthed the contents of some other. Even the plow has been ruthlessly driven over a part of this hallowed ground. The condition of the whole yard is a strong argument for prompt action on the part of some society to ascertain and preserve all possible data of historic interest in this spot. As the scene of the earliest exploration this section will always be interesting; the more so that it contains Jamestown of Pemaquid, about whose. relics hang the mystery of centuries. We know the story of Plymouth and the Pilgrims. Here is another story untold. Who shall tell it? It is a task for the novelist to weave into this warp of fragmentary history the colored threads of romance. Did not the ancient city fulfil its best mission, though it be destroyed and buried, when it fed the Pilgrims and gave them a business that they might bless the world with their undying principles? When it served to break the force of the French onset, and preserve to English speech and Protestant liberty of conscience that great state on whose coast it lay? Surely, in those days when we shall celebrate three hundred years of civilization in America, the ruined "Capital of the East," which interested the crowned heads of Europe, and over which three nations contended, should not be forgotten.

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I

Family Annals

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OORROOGOO was little blackman. He was just born so; and did not mind. Goorroogee was his sister; she also was black. She died young.

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Now Goorroogoo and Goorroogee had a father, and his name Goorrooboo; he was of the tribe of Kanowna. And they had a mother, and her name was Goorroogin; she was the wife of Goorrooboo at that time. But she was killed.

These things happened at Kalgarrie by the Big Clay Pan in the limestone by the Bitter Springs, before the white men rode that way upon the camels.

Now Goorroogoo was well formed: although his legs were shanky and his hair did not curl-but that was cries because Goorroogin made when she was beaten. So GoorrooBut goo was not killed and eaten. very Goorroogee, his sister, was puny; and her back had a crook in its middle; and she would have been killed and eaten, had not Goorroogin, her mother, hidden her in the donga. But Goorroogin always was foolish-that is why Goorrooboo killed her.

had no mother. Then Goorrooboo, the father, married; he took a gin of the tribe of Kalgarrie, while she sought wood grubs in the Iron Stone ridges. And she was called Goorroogin, after the custom of Goorrooboo; and she was very ugly and would have nothing to do with Goorroogoo.

So Goorroogoo grew up by himself.

Now the growing of Goorroogoo was in this wise. When Goorroogin, his real mother, hid Goorroogee his sister in the donga and was killed, Goorroogoo was eight years old and carried the fire-stick for Goorrooboo, his father. And when he let boo, his father. the fire-stick burn out-that was when the rains were on, and when they travelled they could not light a fire he ran away and lived with And that Goorroogee, his sister.

year they had plenty of water, and the wood-grubs and snakes were plentiful. So Goorroogoo had much time to learn things.

hit a parakeet at fifty paces with his nulla-nulla.

Then he left Goorroogee, his sister, and became a cattle-boy for the white man who came up from the sea. And with the white man he learnt how to ride a horse and eat off a plate, how to chew tobacco and wear clothes. And he became very sleek.

And he would have lived a long time that way had not the white man always walked in front.

So the day when he had made a spear from the knife blade the white man had given him—the white man always was foolish-and the white man was injured in the shoulder and Goorroogoo was hit with the bullet, Goorroogoo returned to the donga and lived with Goorroogee, his sister.

Now at this time Goorroogoo was twelve years old, and he began to have feelings and wanted to be

a man.

Such was the growing of Goorroogoo.

II

Goorroogoo Becomes a Man

Two years Goorroogoo lived in the donga with Goorroogee, his sister; and his desires grew. So he set forth to become a man; and went in search of Goorrooboo, his father. Now Goorrooboo, his father, lived no more by the Bitter Springs; for he suffered from a harmful malady; and the salt that made the waters bitter was not good for him. Goorroogoo journeyed far to find Goorrooboo, his father.

And, by the way, Goorroogoo learnt many things. For he passed the Great Barrier and crossed the land-line of the tribe of Nyngarre,

which was very risky. And he came in toward the places where the white men dug for the little red pebbles-and this knowledge was of great value to him later. Then it was the Great Drought came, and he would have died but for the white man. And when he killed the camel because he was thirsty and they would not give him drink, he lay five days in the mulga until his wound healed and had nothing to quench his thirst but the two camel bladders. So after many happenings he ings he found Goorrooboo, his father.

Now Goorrooboo, his father, lived on the outskirts of the white man's camp at Koolgarrie, that stood on the old corroborree ground of the tribe of that name. And Goorrooboo, his father, lived in much comfort, for Goorroogin, his wife, did things for the white healing man and he gave soothing ointments to Goorrooboo in payment of her labors. And Goorrooboo had forgotten Goorroogoo, his son.

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But Goorroogoo had not forgotGoorrooboo, his father, but waited for him amongst the spinnifex. And he left each night before the shack of Goorrooboo, his father, a lizard pierced through the head with a little piece of mulga. And Goorrooboo, his father, read the sign and was full of fear. But did not know from whom it spoke.

Then Goorroogoo became tired of waiting in the spinnifex for Goorrooboo, his father. And when night was down he went to the shack of Goorrooboo, silently. And Goorrooboo was asleep beneath the branches, and Goorroogin, his wife, lay without like a log.

So Goorroogoo stepped across her and met Goorrooboo, his father.

And there was no sound but from the drink-house of the white man; and Goorrooboo, his father, slept soundly and did not struggle. So Goorroogoo had no trouble.

Then Goorroogoo looked upon Goorroogin, the widow of Goorrooboo, his father, but she was more ugly than when he was a child and very old. So he did not desire her; and then he thought of Goorroogin, his mother. So Goorroogin joined Goorrooboo and Goorroogoo be

came a man.

III

The Love and Ambition of

Goorroogoo

After these happenings Goorroogoo should have led the tribe of his father. But none knew that he was Goorroogoo, for he was forgotten. And he desired a wife, but as is the custom he could not marry of his own tribe and he did not love his father's people-so he left them. And with him he took Goorroogin -whom he called after Goorroogin, his mother-and she was of no tribe, and lived with the white man who kept the store at Koolgarrie. And she became his wife, for the time. And they went to the donga where lived Goorroogee, his sister.

And Goorroogee was very miserable, and had grown very thin for want of eating-for she was very weak and her back was more twisted in its middle; and she did not love Goorroogin, the wife of Goorroogoo, because she was well and strong.

But Goorroogin feared Goorroogoo, her husband, and did her no injury. And they lived together that way many months.

Then was the time that Goorroodin was born-but he was not of

Goorroogoo. And Goorroogoo took no pride in the child, but did not kill it as is usual. And the drought still continued.

In these days, Goorroogoo became ambitious. He longed for a tribe of his own to rule after the manner of the white man. For this he had ever had in his mind, insomuch as he could think-which was but little. So he left Goorroogin, his wife, and Goorroogee, his sister, and the child that found no favor in his eyes and went forth to gather a tribe to rule after the manner of the white man. And he went into the Northern Territories, where roamed the men who had no tribe and were outcasts for no good cause. And they had learnt something of the ways of the white man and he gathered them together and told them of the things he would do for them, and brought them to the donga where lived Goorroogin, his wife, and Goorroogee, his sister, and Goorroodin, that was not his child.

And that night they held a Great Corroborree, which is the tribal dance of his race. And the younger gins, which the tribesmen brought with them to the donga, gathered up mulga scrub, and the older gins. stacked it upon the fire. And the tribesmen sat round the fire and smeared their bodies with earth and clays gathered in the Red Iron caves by Weld. And when darkness had fallen and the flames burnt brightly, the gins both young and old laid themselves down upon their faces around the fire. Then the tribesmen lifted their nullas and rising to their their feet danced round the burning mulga, stamping upon the prostrate gins and beating them as they passed. And Goorroogoo, being their chief, chanted a