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A Memory Of The Southern Seas, by Louis Becke
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Title: A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904
Author: Louis Becke
Release Date: March 11, 2008 [EBook #24807]
Language: English
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A MEMORY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS
From "Chinkie's Flat And Other Stories"
By Louis Becke
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1904
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 abl