It is equally clear from the unshaken testimony of Mrs.
Thomas, that when she was rescued by the American whaler, her back was marked with tattooing, then in the healing stage--with tattooing which could not possibly have been inflicted by herself or by the child, who was her sole living companion.

It is also proved that there was seen upon the island by Mrs.Thomas the dead body of a man, which she was informed was that of Mr.Meeson, and which she here in court identified by means of a photograph.

Also, this same witness produced a shell which she picked up in one of the huts, said to be the shell used by the sailors to drink the rum that led to their destruction; and she swore that she saw a sailor's hat lying on the shore.

Now, all this is corroborative evidence, and of a sort not to be despised.

Indeed, as to one point, that of the approximate date of the execution of the tattooing, it is to my mind final.