Category: Adventure
Schooner _Spitfire_--Last Adieus--The Start--The Great Barrier-- Osprey Reef--Wreck of the S.S. _Papua_--"Taking the Sun"-- Somnambulism on the High Seas--Breakers Ahead--Land in Sight-- Brumer Islands--A Dead Calm--H.M.S. _Harrier_--Heath Island-- Natives Come on Board--China...
The first news that greeted us was that Captain Ancell, of the ketch _Star of Peace_, had been cruelly murdered by the natives of Chad's Bay, only 30 miles distant from our anch...
18. CHAPTER VII.Leaving our "Dwarf" in charge of the cutter, we paid a visit to Mr. H----r, the manager of the "Mioko" plantation. "Mioko" is one of the Hamburg Plantation Company's branches.
20. CHAPTER IX.We landed our turtle, killed it, and then cut it up ready for our Christmas dinner on the following day. In our absence, about a dozen diggers had arrived on the island from St....
21. CHAPTER X.I had never been west of South Cape, but had often had a desire to visit Port Moresby. Finding that a vessel was leaving Samarai in a few days for that place, I decided to embra...
11. CHAPTER XI.About seven years ago, when living in South Queensland, I happened to come across a small book on New Guinea, which I devoured with great appetite; so much so that I determined,...
16. CHAPTER V.When not engaged in trading operations I occasionally made excursions on the mainland, and at different times prospected several creeks, hoping to obtain traces of gold, but suc...
22. CHAPTER XI.The coast runs as nearly as possible west-north-west and east-south-east. It has a most bold appearance, mountains of Alpine height, from 8,000 to 13,000 feet, rearing their hea...
13. CHAPTER II.Before setting foot on Samarai I may as well give you some idea of the extent of New Guinea, and of how a portion of it became a British possession.
19. CHAPTER VIII.In St. George's Channel we met with constant baffling winds, which greatly retarded our progress. On some days we made no more than a mile, the strong currents causing us to mak...
15. CHAPTER IV.In New Guinea you eat your Christmas dinner in the open air, with the thermometer at over 100 deg. in the shade. All nature seems weighed down by the oppressive atmosphere. One...
14. CHAPTER III.There are three types of natives, Malay, Papuan, and Polynesian, each more or less mixed with the others. The word "Papuan" is derived from the Malay "Pua-Pua," or "Papuas," whi...
12. CHAPTER I.In the year 1887, two months after the adventure spoken of in the previous pages, hearing that Captain Matheson was in port, and that he intended sailing for New Guinea in a few...
6. CHAPTER VI.Return of _Seagull_ from Sud-Est--Capt. Ancell Killed--Native Treachery--_Hygeia_ arrived China Straits--Left for East Cape--Strange Looking Natives at Bentley Bay--Egum (Woodla...
1. CHAPTER I.Schooner _Spitfire_--Last Adieus--The Start--The Great Barrier-- Osprey Reef--Wreck of the S.S. _Papua_--"Taking the Sun"-- Somnambulism on the High Seas--Breakers Ahead--Land i...
9. CHAPTER IX.Diggers Sick with Fever--The Supreme Court--Reported Murder of S. and W., Ferguson Island--Went in _Alice Meade_ to Rescue--Report Untrue--Schooner _Myrtle_ dismasted--Went in _...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Left Ralume--St. George's Channel--Fate of Charles Hunstein-- Marquis de Ray's Expedition--Head Winds--Shot a Shark--Pilot Fish--Lost two Buckets Overboard--Arrived Egum--Landed...
5. CHAPTER V.10. CHAPTER X.2. CHAPTER II.7. CHAPTER VII.4. CHAPTER IV.3. CHAPTER III.