Horror in Paradise (2014)
“After spending two decades as a trader, beachcomber, black-birder, and wanderer “from Rapa to Palau,” Louis Becke at the age of thirty-eight began to write stories for the famed Sydney Bulletin, and in 1896 went to London to embark on a literary career. Before his death he published thirty-five books about the Pacific, six of them in collaboration with Walter James Jeffery. This selection comes from Becke’s first book, By Reef and Palm (1894).
“A Basket of Breadfruit,” the adventures of a t...rader during the civil war days in Samoa when Colonel Albert Barnes Steinberger, an American filibuster, was intervening in the three-way struggle of the chiefs for supremacy, has the ring of truth. In fewer than two thousand words, the reader is plunged into a life-or-death situation, following the involvement of a South Sea trader hurrying his small schooner inside the perilous reef.
IT WAS in Steinberger’s time. A trader had come up to Apia in his boat from the end of Savaii, the largest of the Samoan group, and was on his way home again when the falling tide caused him to stop awhile at Mulinu’u Point, about two miles from Apia.MoreLess
“A Basket of Breadfruit,” the adventures of a t...rader during the civil war days in Samoa when Colonel Albert Barnes Steinberger, an American filibuster, was intervening in the three-way struggle of the chiefs for supremacy, has the ring of truth. In fewer than two thousand words, the reader is plunged into a life-or-death situation, following the involvement of a South Sea trader hurrying his small schooner inside the perilous reef.
IT WAS in Steinberger’s time. A trader had come up to Apia in his boat from the end of Savaii, the largest of the Samoan group, and was on his way home again when the falling tide caused him to stop awhile at Mulinu’u Point, about two miles from Apia.MoreLess
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