Brown Men and Women: Or the South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Reeves, Edward

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ISBN 10: 1332602207 ISBN 13: 9781332602209

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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The greatest of all these gentlemen was the late lamented Bully Hayes. Imperfect sketches of him appear in A Modern Buccaneer and in T/rrouglr A toll: and Island: in fire Great Soul}: Sea, and in several other books but they hardly touch the tragedies of this career. Those who knew most held their peace. The fact is, many of the island traders were either in complicity, or at least sympathised, with his plunderings, and would not tell against him while he was alive. After he was gone their tongues wagged. Then was the time to learn the whole truth about him. Our best modern writer of adventure, the late Robert Louis Stevenson, in his South Sea Island novel, Tire Wrecker, mentions Hayes casually, and evidently without the most distant conception, that in the life and adventures of this pirate, kidnapper, murderer, and ship-stealer was material for a book of adventure second to none that ever was written. By rare combina tion of circumstances the author of Kidnapped and Treasure Island was specially endowed with the necessary genius, fitted out with the necessary intellectual skill, and sent to live in the very spot where, in the circle of a few days' sailing, could have been collected all the materials for the true story of Hayes. From the lower standpoint of romantic fiction, even a novel on the subject would have been a much greater than either of those books on which his reputation is founded.

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Most English boys would have to look up the dictionary if suddenly confronted with, and asked the meaning of, barratry, but to us in West Coast goldfield days it was almost a household word. Handy schooners, filled at Dunedin with everything useful for an alluvial gold rush, were quite as handy for a South Sea island. At the new goldfield township of Hokitika, on the almost unknown, at any rate unexplored, west coast of the Middle Island of New Zealand, consignees waited long in vain. Then the brig Sara/i, or the clipper-built, topsail schooner Rover, was given up as lost with all hands. Insurances were paid. The sailors' widows wept, and married again. The captain and crew died to New Zealand, and rose happily in the heaven of Tonga, Vavau, or Samoa. The Rove} was painted afresh, out of ship's stores, or, may be, out of cargo. Her name was altered, a new set of papers forged, her cargo exchanged for pearl-shell and cocoanut-oil. Native men and women, bought at auction or from the chiefs at Nukffalofa, or Leuka, or more economically deported, at first hand, from some lonely island.

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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1332602207
• ISBN 13: 9781332602209
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308