_Iphegenia,_ with Mr.Justice Andrew J.Leech and court officers on board, on a circuit of inspection among the Straits Settlements, of which Keeling Cocos was a dependency, to hear complaints and try cases by law, if any there were to try.

They found the _Spray_ hauled ashore and tied to a cocoanut-tree.

But at the Keeling Islands there had not been a grievance to complain of since the day that Hare migrated, for the Bosses have always treated the islanders as their own family.
If there is a paradise on this earth it is Keeling.

There was not a case for a lawyer, but something had to be done, for here were two ships in port, a great man-of-war and the _Spray._ Instead of a lawsuit a dance was got up, and all the officers who could leave their ship came ashore.

Everybody on the island came, old and young, and the governor's great hall was filled with people.