. King's handbook of Boston harbor. rd the story told,How ghost, without a head ;Here guards some thousand pounds in gold,By some strange fancy led. In the spring of 1882 a band of Zuni Indians from the mysterious pueblosof New Mexico visited Deer Island, to perform their strange religious cere- KING S HAND BOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 197 monies on the shores of The Ocean of Sunrise, and to fill their ancestralvases with the sacred water of the sea. They were attended by 300 citi-zens, including many prominent divines and scholars. Advancing far outon the rocks, they chanted strange songs of prayer
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. rd the story told,How ghost, without a head ;Here guards some thousand pounds in gold,By some strange fancy led. In the spring of 1882 a band of Zuni Indians from the mysterious pueblosof New Mexico visited Deer Island, to perform their strange religious cere- KING S HAND BOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. 197 monies on the shores of The Ocean of Sunrise, and to fill their ancestralvases with the sacred water of the sea. They were attended by 300 citi-zens, including many prominent divines and scholars. Advancing far outon the rocks, they chanted strange songs of prayer, and offered sacrificesto the waves, praying, Make the roads of life for ourselves and for ourchildren to be prolonged. These ceremonials were continued upon thebeach after the tide had driven them shoreward; and Mr. Cushing, who hadlong been a resident of Zuni, was there initiated into the high religious orderof the Kaukau, an order which is many centuries old. The construction of municipal institutions began in 1847, when Boston. Convicts at Work. built here several large buildings for sheltering Irish emigrants, of whommore than 10,000 landed between January and July. The terrible scourgeof ship-fever made formidable ravages among these new-comers, hundredsof whom died upon the island, and were buried and forgotten. About threeyears later the large city building was erected, at a cost of $150,000. In1858 the House of Reformation was established; and the buildings of thefarm-school and the asylum for pauper girls date from 1869. The main building is a large brick edifice, with three wings projectingfrom a high central block crowned with a cupola, and is the most conspicu-ous object in the outer harbor. In its western front is the home of thesuperintendent, Col. Guy C. Underwood; and the nave and transepts of 198 KING S HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. this cathedral of Lucifer are occupied by the cells and dormitories, kitchensand dining-rooms, workshops and schoolrooms, of the ar
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