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By Reef and Palm

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By Reef and Palm (1916)
by Louis Becke
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[T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1916. First published 1894.] Tales of the South Sea Islands. These (his first tales) were first published in (and shaped by the editor of) the Sidney Bulletin. The Earl of Pembroke, struck with some of these stories in the Bulletin, urged Becke to send a collection to London. The result was “By Reef and Palm.”

“The loves of white men and brown women, often cynical and brutal, sometimes exquisitely tender and pathetic, necessarily fill a large space in any true picture of the South Sea Islands, and Mr. Becke, no doubt of set artistic purpose, has confined himself in the collection of tales now offered almost entirely to this facet of the life.” (From the introduction by the Earl of Pembroke.)

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By Reef &
Palm
by
Louis Becke

London
T. Fisher Unwin Ltd
Adelphi Terrace

First Edition 1894
Second Impression 1894
Third Impression 1895
Fourth Impression 1895
Fifth Impression 1898
Sixth Impression 1913
Seventh Impression 1916

[All rights reserved.]

CONTENTS

  1. page
  2. Introduction 1
  3. Challis the Doubter 18
  4. “’Tis in the Blood” 33
  5. The Revenge of Macy O’Shea 42
  6. The Rangers of Tia Kau 56
  7. Pallou’s Taloi 66
  8. A Basket of Bread-Fruit 79
  9. Enderby’s Courtship 89
  10. Long Charley’s Good Little Wife 105
  11. The Methodical Mr. Burr of Majuru 115
  12. A Truly Great Man 128
  13. The Doctor’s Wife 137
  14. The Fate of the Alida 148
  15. The Chilian Bluejacket 181
  16. Brantley of Vahitahi 220

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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