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A Memory Of The Southern Seas

A Memory Of The Southern Seas

Becke, Louis

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Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1548184314
ISBN13: 9781548184315
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 18 2017
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
CAPTAIN BULLY HAYES In other works by the present writer frequent allusion has been made, either by the author or by other persons, to Captain Hayes. Perhaps the continuous appearance of his name may have been irritating to many of my readers; if so I can only plead that it is almost impossible when writing of wild life in the Southern Seas to avoid mentioning him. Every one who sailed the Austral seas between the fifties and seventies, and thousands who had not, knew of him and had heard tales of him. In some eases these tales were to his credit; mostly they were not. However, the writer makes no further apology for reproducing the following sketch of the great Bully which he contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette, and which, by the courtesy of the editor of that journal, he is able to include in this volume. In a most interesting, though all too brief, sketch of the life of the late Rev. James Chalmers, the famous New Guinea missionary, which appeared in the January number of a popular religious magazine, the author, the Rev. Richard Lovett, gives us a brief glance of the notorious Captain Bully Hayes. Mr. Chalmers, in 1866, sailed for the South Seas with his wife in the missionary ship John Williams-the second vessel of [...].

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