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Rh days. They know I understand their beautiful Fatherland and the life there.

Captain Dunbar—or Doonbar as the Germans call it—is of Scottish origin, but very German in all his ways. His ancestors went to America in 1600, and his father and brothers are American, he being the only German of the family. It is curious to find this Scoto-American a German naval captain. He is now bound for Europe, and tells me his brother is in Scotland hunting out the family genealogy, and I think the blood that is thicker than water accounts for his occasional lapses into confidential German communications; but I am sure none of the others here would talk so freely about German desires and aims to other people as they do to me.

Monsignor Coupé, the Bishop—appointed " Vicariat Apostolique" of the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomons, Admiralty Isles and New Guinea, and head of the Sacred Heart Mission—is a very tall, strong, portly, energetic man with a long black beard, and, though French, has little of that nationality about him. The Mission was re-established in New Britain in 1889, but for over a year the New Guinea Co. would not allow them to do anything or interfere with the natives. At last permission came from Berlin, and different spheres were allotted to the Catholic and Protestant Missions. Bishop Coupe was long in British New Guinea, but, as he laughingly said to me, the Protestant missionaries there were too much for him. He has now been seven years in the German sphere, and has just returned from a visit to Europe. The Governor of German New Guinea did not see his way to letting him have what land he desired for his Mission Stations, so in Berlin he, map in hand, interviewed the Foreign Office, talked them over, and got them to