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Louis Becke

Rídan The Devil And Other StoriesLouis Becke Rídan The Devil And Other Stories / 1899 RÍDAN THE DEVIL 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 hate...

John Frewen, South Sea WhalerLouis Becke John Frewen, South Sea Whaler / 1904 BOOK I CHAPTER I Captain Ethan Keller, of the Casilda of Nantucket, was in a very bad temper, for in four days he had lost two of the five boats the barque carried—one had been hopelessly stove by the dreaded “underclip...

John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous FishLouis Becke John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish / 1901 I “Am I to have no privacy at all?” demanded the Governor irritably as the orderly again tapped at the open door and announced another visitor. “Who is he and what does he wan...

A Memory Of The Southern SeasLouis Becke A Memory Of The Southern Seas / 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 irritat...

By Reef and PalmLouis Becke By Reef and Palm INTRODUCTION When in October, 1870, I sailed into the harbour of Apia, Samoa, in the ill-fated ALBATROSS, Mr Louis Becke was gaining his first experiences of island life as a trader on his own account by running a cutter between Apia and Savai'i.It was...

The Ebbing Of The TideLouis Becke The Ebbing Of The Tide / South Sea Stories – 1896 “LULIBAN OF THE POOL” A boy and a girl sat by the rocky margin of a deep mountain pool in Ponape in the North Pacific. The girl was weaving a basket from the leaves of a cocoa-nut. As she wove she sang the “Song o...

The Strange Adventure Of James ShervintonLouis Becke The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton / 1902 CHAPTER I The night was close and stifling, and the dulled bellowing of the surf on the weather side of the island told me that the calm was about to break at last, and in another hour or so the ...

The Tapu Of BanderahLouis Becke The Tapu Of Banderah / 1901 I ~ THE “STARLIGHT” As the rising sun had just begun to pierce the misty tropic haze of early dawn, a small, white-painted schooner of ninety or a hundred tons burden was bearing down upon the low, densely-wooded island of Mayou, which l...

The Americans In The South SeasLouis Becke The Americans In The South Seas / 1901 THE AMERICANS IN THE SOUTH SEAS Perhaps the proper title of this article should be "The Influence of American Enterprise upon the Maritime Development of the first Colony in Australia," but as such a long-winded phr...

The Call Of The SouthLouis Becke The Call Of The South / 1908 CHAPTER I ~ PAUL, THE DIVER “Feeling any better to-day, Paul?”“Guess I’m getting round,” and the big, bronzed-faced man raised his eyes to mine as he lay under the awning on the after deck of his pearling lugger. I sat down beside him ...