[Bates, Daisy M., The “Trappist” Mission at Beagle Bay, in Reilly, John Thomas, 1903, Reminiscences of fifty years’ residence in Western Australia, Sands & McDougall, Perth, pages 522-534]
[available online at http://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au/slwa_b1226478_001]
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The “Trappist” Mission at Beagle Bay
By Daisy M. Bates
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Truly is the mission an oasis in such a wilderness. Cocoanut and date trees spread their broad branches and intermingle overhead forming an avenue of cloisters, flowers abound in the smaller gardens, and the many frutis and vegetables named below, add to the homeliness of the scene; and best of all these there is the spectacle of those fine stalward natives working in the gardens and singing at their work, knowing that there is their home, and that the labour that they expend upon it is for their own good.
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When I visited the mission at Beagle Bay I had no expectation of finding the blackfellow anything better than a sneak and a sycophant, a sort of “flour and rice Christian” as it were, but a very few days’ stay among them, and close observation of them convinced me of my error in so thinking.
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