CONTENTS
ADDIE RANSOM: A MEMORY OF THE TOKELAUS
A FISH DRIVE ON A MICRONESIAN ATOLL
AN ADVENTURE IN THE NEW HEBRIDES
THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE OF CHARLES DU BREIL
THE WHITE WIFE AND THE BROWN 'WOMAN'
WITH HOOK AND LINE ON AN AUSTRAL RIVER
THE WRECK OF THE LEONORA: A MEMORY OF 'BULLY' HAYES
Rídan lived alone in a little hut on the borders of the big German plantation at Mulifenua, away down at the lee end of Upolu Island, and every one of his brown-skinned fellow-workers either hated or feared him, and smiled when Burton, the American overseer, would knock him down for being a 'sulky brute.' But no one of them cared to let Rídan see him smile. For to them he was a wizard, a devil, who could send death in the night to those he hated. And so when anyone died on the plantation he was blamed, and seemed to like it. Once, when he lay ironed hand and foot in the stifling corrugated iron 'calaboose,' with his blood-shot eyes fixed in sullen rage on Burton's angered face, Tirauro, a Gilbert Island native assistant ov