A Memory Of The Southern Seas

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Becke Louis. A Memory Of The Southern Seas

CAPTAIN “BULLY” HAYES

THE “WHALE CURE”

THE SEA “SALMON” SEASON IN AUSTRALIA

“JACK SHARK”

SOME PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHES

“LUCK”

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

BULL-DOGS OF THE SEA

“REVENGE”

SAUNDERSON AND THE DYNAMITE

THE STEALING OF SA LUIA

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I once heard a man who for nearly six years had been a martyr to rheumatism say he would give a thousand pounds to have a cure effected.

“I wish, then, that we were in Australia or New Zealand during the shore whaling season,” remarked a friend of the writer; “I should feel pretty certain of annexing that thousand pounds.” And then he described the whale cure.

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“That is right,” I said impatiently, “but ask me no more to-night. Dost not know that it is unlucky to talk when fishing for takuo and tautau?”

“Dear friend, that we believed only in the heathen days. Now we are Christians.”

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