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Wild life in southern seas, by Louis Becke.

by Becke, Louis, 1855-1913.

London, T.F. Unwin, 1897.

Oceania -- Description and travel.

2 preliminary leaves, vii-viii, 369, [1] pages 21 cm

Orca Gladiator.--Green dots of the empire: the Ellice Group.--The Tia Kau.--The Areois.--Australia's heritage; the New Hebrides group.--Jack in the atolls.--The cutting off of the "Boyd".--My native servants.--Gente Hermosa: the island of "beautiful people".--Deep-sea fishing in Polynesia.--Birgus the robber: the palm crab of the Pacific Islands.--On an Austral beach.--A noble sea game.--The gigantic albicore of Polynesia.--The takuo.--Old Samoan days.--The king's artillerymen.--"Leviathan".--An island king.--A spurious Utopia.--Love and marriage in Polynesia.--Niué: The "Savage Island" of Captain Cook.--The old and the new style of South Sea trader.--Rapa: the forgotten.--Hino, the apostate: a tale of the Mid-Pacific.--In the morning.

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