FARO IN FEEJEE.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 448, 20 November 1875, Page 3

FARO IN FEEJEE.

New York Paper. Civilization is gradually penetrating to the remote regions of the earth. A faro-bank has been established in Feejee, and the natives are fascinated with the game. A somewhat sad incident is mentioned in connection with the last game for the championship. A chief became deeply interested in the game, the stakes of which were human beings fattened for the table. Luck seemed to go against the chief. First he put up his servants, and lost; then he bet his mother-in-law, and lost. He did not shed a tear over this disaster. Then he staked his unmarried sister, and his uncle William, and his aunt in the country, and his wife's cousins ; and the bank raked in all the chips. The infatuated chief then offered his baby, and the owner of the bank had it packed down in his ice-chest in less than fifteen minutes. The chief then bet all his children successively, and lost; and then having gambled away his wife, he staked himself on the last chance, and again bet on the wrong card. When he had time to think it over, the chief said he was convinced that gambling was very wrong, and he thought it ought to be suppressed by the authorities. Bat before his friends could get a bill passed he was killed and put in a cask to corn by the faro-bank man. A succession of peculiarly succulent free lunches made that establishment very attractive to Feejeean epicures for several months afterward.