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    The Tapu Of Banderah: 1901
    The Tapu Of Banderah: 1901
    The Tapu Of Banderah: 1901
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    The Tapu Of Banderah: 1901

    By Louis Becke

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    "The Tapu Of Banderah" is a novel featuring the life of the European settlers in the lands of the south-east New Guinea and the murderous Solomon Group. Being the only white settlers in the land of colonies, the protagonists have to endure numerous difficulties and dangerous adventures.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 17, 2019
    ISBN4064066176860
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      The Tapu Of Banderah - Louis Becke

      Louis Becke

      The Tapu Of Banderah

      1901

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066176860

      Table of Contents

      I ~ THE STARLIGHT

      II ~ A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION

      III ~ BANDERAH

      IV ~ DEATH TO THEM BOTH!

      V ~ THE TAPU OF BANDERAH

      I ~ THE STARLIGHT

      Table of Contents

      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 lies between the coast of south-east New Guinea and the murderous Solomon Group—the grave of the white man in Melanesia.

      The white population of Mayou was not large, for it consisted only of an English missionary and his wife—who was, of course, a white woman—a German trader named Peter Schwartzkoff and his native wife; an English trader named Charlie Blount, with his two half-caste sons and daughters; and an American trader and ex-whaler, named Nathaniel Burrowes, with his wives.

      Although the island is of large extent, and of amazing fertility, the native population was at this time comparatively small, numbering only some three thousand souls. They nearly all lived at the south-west end of the island, the rendezvous of the few trading ships that visited the place. Occasionally a surveying vessel, and, at longer intervals still, a labour-recruiting ship from Hawaii or Fiji, would call. At such times the monotony of the lives of the white residents of Mayou was pleasantly broken. Once a year, too, a missionary vessel would drop anchor in the little reef-bound port, but her visit was of moment only to the Rev. Mr. Deighton, his wife, and their native converts, and the mission ship's presence in the harbour was taken no notice of by the three white traders; for a missionary ship is not always regarded by the average trader in the South Seas as a welcome visitor.

      Almost with the rising of the sun the vessel had been sighted from the shore by a party of natives, who were fishing off the south end of the island, and in a few minutes their loud cries reached other natives on shore, and by them was passed on from house to house along the beach till it reached the town itself. From there, presently, came a deep sonorous shout, "Evaka! Evaka! (A ship! A ship!"), and then they swarmed out of their thatched dwellings like bees from a hive and ran, laughing and shouting together, down to the beach in front of the village.

      As the clamour increased, the Rev. Wilfrid Deighton opened the door of his study and stepped out upon the shady verandah of the mission house, which stood upon a gentle, palm-covered rise about five hundred yards from the

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