Linguist, Hale meets M’Gill

Linguist, Hale meets M’Gill, who is “one of the most intelligent natives” and Agate takes his portrait. They find M’Gill’s “physiognomy” “much more agreeable than that of the other blacks, being less strongly marked with the peculiarities of his race”: middle in size, dark chocolate in colour, with fine glossy black hair and whiskers, a good forehead, eyes not deeply set, and an aquiline nose. M’Gill is seen as a skilled teacher of his native language, pronouncing words very distinctly. While M’Gill is familiar with the doctrines of Christianity, he is steadfastly attached to the customs of his people. M’Gill is “always a prominent leader in corrobories and other assemblies”. Agate draws a “corroborrie”.