By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories
by Louis Becke
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Chapters (279)
- Note to Readers
- AUTHOR OF "PACIFIC TALES," "BY REEF AND PALM," ETC., ETC.
- CONTENTS
- Solepa
- The Fisher Folk of Nukufetau
- Mrs. MacLaggan's "Billy"
- An Island Memory
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- A Hundred Fathoms Deep
- On a Tidal River
- Denison Gets Another Ship
- Jack Shark's Pilot
- The "Palu" of the Equatorial Pacific
- The Wily "Goanner"
- The Tănifa of Samoa
- On Board the "Tucopia."
- The Man in the Buffalo Hide
- A CRUISE IN THE SOUTH SEAS
- (HINTS TO INTENDING TRAVELLERS)
- A Cruise in the South Seas
- (HINTS TO INTENDING TRAVELLERS)
- FOOTNOTES:
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