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Title: Ridan The Devil And Other Stories
1899

Author: Louis Becke

Release Date: March 15, 2008 [EBook #24835]

Language: English

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RIDAN THE DEVIL AND OTHER STORIES

By Louis Becke

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1899

CONTENTS:

RIDAN THE DEVIL

A MEMORY OF 'THE SYSTEM'

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

A NORTH PACIFIC LAGOON ISLAND

BILGER, OF SYDNEY

THE VISION OF MILLI THE SLAVE

DENISON GETS A BERTH ASHORE

ADDIE RANSOM: A MEMORY OF THE TOKELAUS

IN A NATIVE VILLAGE

MAURICE KINANE

THE 'KILLERS' OF TWOFOLD BAY

DENISON'S SECOND BERTH ASHORE

A FISH DRIVE ON A MICRONESIAN ATOLL

BOBARAN

SEA FISHING IN AUSTRALIA

AN ADVENTURE IN THE NEW HEBRIDES

THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE OF CHARLES DU BREIL

THE WHITE WIFE AND THE BROWN 'WOMAN'

WITH HOOK AND LINE ON AN AUSTRAL RIVER

THE WRECK OF THE LEONORA: A MEMORY OF 'BULLY' HAYES

AN OLD COLONIAL MUTINY

A BOATING ADVENTURE IN THE CAROLINES

A CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE FAR SOUTH SEAS

RIDAN THE DEVIL

Ridan lived alone in a little hut on the borders of the big German
plantation at Mulifenua, away down at the lee end of Upolu Island, and
every one of his brown-skinned fellow-workers either hated or feared
him, and smiled when Burton, the American overseer, would knock him down
for being a 'sulky brute.' But no one of them cared to let Ridan see him
smile. For to them he was a wizard, a devil, who could send death in the
night to those he hated. And so when anyone died on the plantation he
was blamed, and seemed to like it. Once, when he lay ironed hand and
foot in the stifling corrugated iron 'calaboose,' with his blood-shot
eyes fixed in sullen rage on Burton's angered face, Tirauro, a Gilbert
Island native assistant overseer, struck him on the mouth and called him
'a pig cast