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Excerpt from Ridan the Devil: And Other Stories Ridan was sick for a long time after this. A heavy flogging always did make him sick, although he was so big and strong. And so, as he could not work in the fields, he was sent to Apia to do light labour in the cotton-mill there. The next morning he was miss ing. He had swum to a brig lying at anchor in the harbour and hidden away in the empty forehold. Then he was discovered and taken ashore to the mill again, where the foreman gave him a dose of Cameroons medicine - that is, twenty-five lashes. Send him back to the plantation, ' said the manager, who was a mere German civilian, and consequently much despised by his foreman, who had served in Africa. I'm afraid to keep him here, and I'm not going to punish him if he tries to get away again, poor devil.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Crossing from Holyhead to Ireland one night the captain of the steamer and myself, during an hour's talk on the bridge, found that we each had sailed in a certain Australian coasting steamer more than twenty years before-he as chief officer and I as passenger; and her shipwreck one Christmas Eye (long after), which was attended by an appalling loss of life, led us to talk of "pig-headed" skippers generally.

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Martin Of Nitendi; and The River Of Dreams

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""The Jalasco: Brig (1902)"" is a historical adventure novel written by Louis Becke. The story takes place in the mid-19th century and follows the journey of a young sailor named Jack who is hired as a crew member on the Jalasco, a brig sailing from Sydney to San Francisco. Along the way, the ship encounters various challenges, including storms, pirates, and mutiny. Jack must navigate these obstacles and prove his worth as a sailor while also coming to terms with his own past and the secrets he carries. The novel is filled with vivid descriptions of life at sea, colorful characters, and thrilling action sequences. It is a captivating tale of adventure and self-discovery that will appeal to fans of historical fiction and nautical literature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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在澳大利亚的海洋故事中，从1788年的菲利普船长时代到本世纪"五十年代"末期，美国的船只和海员几乎没有参与。首先，他们作为贸易商带着准备出售给半饥饿的定居者的货物来到悉尼湾港口，然后作为捕鲸者，在又过了30年之前，星空的旗帜可能会在太平洋上的任何地方遇到，从无菌的海岸阿留申群岛到新西兰和塔斯马尼亚岛的海岸。 1804年10月一个清晨，美国轮船联盟驶过悉尼海角，将锚抛入海湾。她最后一次来自友好集团的主要岛屿汤加塔布。船长一经她被负责港口的海军军官登上，并检查了文件，便说他与试图切断船只的汤加塔布当地人进行了一次非常激动人心的冒险，在那里然后登上了一个名叫伊丽莎白-莫雷 的年轻女子，他从野蛮人中被俘虏获救。几分钟后，这名年轻女子出现在主舱中，并被介绍给军官。她的年龄大约是六岁到二十岁，举止"极富魅力"。然而，尽管她表示愿意在岛民中讲述自己的冒险经历，但她拒绝透露自己的出生或父母身分，但事实并非她是纽约人，而几年前她已前往开普敦好希望。就联盟的主人而言，她的救助令人担忧，她的非凡叙述在所有细节上都得到了证实。

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As the rising sun had just begun to pierce the misty tropic haze of early dawn, a small, white-painted schooner of ninety or a hundred tons burden was bearing down upon the low, densely-wooded island of Mayou, which lies between the coast of south-east New Guinea and the murderous Solomon Group-the grave of the white man in Melanesia. The white population of Mayou was not large, for it consisted only of an English missionary and his wife-who was, of course, a white woman-a German trader named Peter Schwartzkoff and his native wife; an English trader named Charlie Blount, with his two half-caste sons and daughters; and an American trader and ex-whaler, named Nathaniel Burrowes, with his wives.

George Lewis Becke (or Louis Becke; 18 June 1855 - 18 February 1913) was an Australian short-story writer and novelist.Becke was born at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, son of Frederick Becke, Clerk of Petty Sessions and his wife Caroline Matilda, née Beilby. Both parents were born in England. Becke was the youngest of six children and had a tendency to wander; he has stated that before he was 10 he had twice run away from home. The family moved to Hunters Hill, Sydney in 1867 and Becke was educated at Fort Street High School.-Wikipedia

Northward from an Australian city, and hidden from seaward view by high wooded bluffs and green belts of dense wind-swept scrub, there lies one of the oldest and quaintest little seaport towns on the whole eastern sea-board, from the heat-smitten rocks of Cape York, in the far north of torrid Queensland, to where, three thousand miles to the south, the sweeping billows from the icy Antarctic leap high in air, and thunder against the grim and rugged walls of stark Cape Howe.

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The Ebbing of the Tide, South Sea Stories by Louis Becke. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1896 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

Captain Ethan Keller, of the Casilda of Nantucket, was in a very bad temper, for in four days he had lost two of the five boats the barque carried-one had been hopelessly stove by the dreaded "underclip" given her by a crafty old bull sperm-whale, and the other, which was in charge of the second mate, had not been seen for seventy hours. When last sighted she was fast to the same bull which had destroyed the first mate's boat; it was then nearly dark, and the whale, which was of an enormous size, although he had three irons in his body and was towing the whole length of line from the stove-in boat as well as that of the second mate, was racing through the water as fresh as when he had first been struck, three hours previously. Then the sun dipped below the sea-rim, and the blue Pacific was shrouded in darkness.

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When in October, 1870, I sailed into the harbour of Apia, Samoa, in the ill-fated ALBATROSS, Mr Louis Becke was gaining his first experiences of island life as a trader on his own account by running a cutter between Apia and Savai'i. It was rather a notable moment in Apia, for two reasons. In the first place, the German traders were shaking in their shoes for fear of what the French squadron might do to them, and we were the bearers of the good news from Tahiti that the chivalrous Admiral Clouet, with a very proper magnanimity, had decided not to molest them; and, secondly, the beach was still seething with excitement over the departure on the previous day of the pirate Pease, carrying with him the yet more illustrious "Bully" Hayes.

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I had ridden all day through an endless vista ot ghostly grey gums and ironbarks, when I came in sight of the long wavering line of vivid green foliage which showed me that I had reached my destination-a roughly-built slab hut with a roof of corrugated iron. This place was to be my home for six months, and stood on the bank of Five-Head Creek, twenty-five miles from the rising city of Townsville in North Queensland.

John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish