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that the minister could see it every time he raised his head. A splendid idea—but the clock was slow!

The church, especially for a country district, is spacious. The interior is square and plain. And what is still unusual in the Island country, it has electric lights. There are memorials in the church in memory of Mary Douglas, and of the Reverend John Mac— Lennan, a native of Rosshire, Scotland, who was the church’s first minister.

The church is as expressive as the cenotaph in London. What it lacks in ornament it makes up in setting. Here the Scots either refrained from cutting out all the trees or planted them later in a mood of repentance. For there are trees and hedges. The memorial to the Highlanders stands at the entrance to the church grounds. Around the church, almost completely encircling it, these early builders sleep in their peaceful graves. They did not all settle serenely on the Island and grow old in contentment. One, Hector Campbell, master mariner, was lost with all his crew while commanding his ship, Astoria, from Rangoon, India, to Liverpool, England. Another man, Lauchlin Morrison, “lived and died an honest man”——a typical old Scot.

Large as this cemetery is, there is still another known as the Polly cemetery at Mt. Buchanan. Here rests Angus MacAulay, Chaplain in His Majesty’s First \Vest India Regiment, who came over in that memorable ship, the Polly.

Some people seemed to have had all the hard luck, and the wanderlust, too. In one family, Captain Hector died of yellow fever in Bolivar, South America; Neil, a seaman, died of smallpox in Liverpool, Eng- land; two others, Captain Angus and Alexander, 3.