Bible Illustrations From the New Hebrides With Notices of the Progress of the
Bible Illustrations From the New Hebrides With Notices of the Progress of the
John Inglis
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I knew a captain in those seas who gave the use of his vessel to a party of white men to hang a native whom they had adjudged worthy of death. He and his crew took no part in the proceedings ; they retired to the fore-part of the ship and left the after- part to those conducting the execution. But no sooner did the vessel reach Sydney, whither the report had preceded him, RANGI AND HIS SON THOMAS AMOS. 269 than the captain was arrested and lodged in prison on a charge of murder being committed ...on board of his ship. The law recognises the deck of every British vessel as British . Territory, and holds the captain responsible for all that is done on board. This captain was tried and condemned to so many years of penal servitude. He was a man well connected, and strong influences were brought to bear on the Government on his behalf, and his punishment was first commuted, and subse- quently remitted ; but the authority of the law was vindicated. It was by overlooking this principle that the mistake was made the other year by the missionaries of the Established Church of Scotland at Blantyre in Livingstonia, and also, about the same time, by the Rev.
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