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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