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Title: By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories
Author: Louis Becke
Release Date: July 1, 2004 [EBook #12798]
Language: English
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_By_ ROCK & POOL
On An Austral Shore
_By_ LOUIS BECKE
AUTHOR OF "PACIFIC TALES,"
"BY REEF AND PALM," ETC., ETC.
New Amsterdam Book Company
156 FIFTH AVENUE: NEW YORK CITY: MCMI
CONTENTS
BY ROCK AND POOL
SOLEPA
THE FISHER FOLK OF NUKUFETAU
MRS. MACLAGGAN'S BILLY
AN ISLAND MEMORY
A HUNDRED FATHOMS DEEP
ON A TIDAL RIVER
DENISON GETS ANOTHER SHIP
JACK SHARK'S PILOT
THE "PALU" OF THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC
THE WILY "GOANNER"
THE TA~NIFA OF SAMOA
ON BOARD THE _TUCOPIA_
THE MAN IN THE BUFFALO HIDE
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A CRUISE IN THE SOUTH SEAS--HINTS TO INTENDING TRAVELLERS
_By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore_
The quaint, old-fashioned little town faces eastward to the blue
Pacific, whose billows, when the wind blows from any point between north
and east, come tumbling in across the shallow bar in ceaseless lines of
foaming white, to meet, when the tide is on the ebb, the swift cur
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