This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...to New Caledonia, and told us of " Mr. White's" proposals. When the mate came the next morning, he asked if we would give him our mail then or wait till he had bought the pigs and was coming back. I said, " There are no pigs there; the captain is being deceived; these people are a bad lot ." He said, " Oh! I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...to New Caledonia, and told us of " Mr. White's" proposals. When the mate came the next morning, he asked if we would give him our mail then or wait till he had bought the pigs and was coming back. I said, " There are no pigs there; the captain is being deceived; these people are a bad lot ." He said, " Oh! I think the man--' Mr. White'--is safe enough; he says there are pigs." I replied, " If you will go, be careful. I'll have our letters ready by the time you come back ." When the mate reached Raumpong, he was surprised to see a crowd of men and boys on the shore, all armed with battle-axes and clubs. He called to them: " Where are the pigs that you promised to have ready for us?" Mr. White answered: " We have no pigs;" and at once another native began to pull up the boat. The mate, seeing then that he had been deceived and that mischief was intended, jumped out, and tried to shove her off again, but the men, standing over him with their battleaxes, kept him from doing this. In a twinkling the rascally crowd had emptied the boat of all the trade axes, knives, calico and a long roll of Fiji tobacco, which they dragged out, lopping it off with their axes as each man and boy grabbed for a share. Not a single thing was left in the boat with the exception of one hatchet, which, strange to say, their keen eyes had overlooked. The mate returned to the ship with an empty boat, and very much excited and annoyed. But it turned out that he had got off much better than he, poor fellow, knew. The old chief, Novwai, had forbidden his people to kill the white men, but gave them permission to steal everything that they could lay their hands on. Had it not been for this, the mate and his crew would have been murdered that morning, and the boat, as well as the...
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Very Good. 1903. 2d. ed. Hardcover....Edited by John Fraser, B.A., LL.D. Sydney, author of "The Etruscans; Were They Celts? " ETC. 465pp. Clean tight copy, bound in green cloth. Spine slightly stained. Gilt stamped front board and spine. Includes appendix, photo plates and folding map. First edition copy.....We ship daily from our warehouse.