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Sailor and beachcomber / Confessions of a life at sea, in Australia, and amid the islands of the Pacific

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By A. Safroni-Middleton
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A first-person maritime memoir traces the author's early years abroad, detailing life aboard sailing ships and tramp steamers, episodes ashore in Australia and in South Sea island communities, and the hardships of working passages. The narrative combines vivid travel anecdotes, sketches of bush and island life, reflections on lost comrades, and musical pieces and marches, presenting rough humor and camaraderie alongside moments of loss. Rather than moralizing, it offers candid, atmospheric recollections of drifting, labor, and the rewards and costs of a roving life.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE    
1. Tree-Climbing Frontispiece
 
2. River Scene, Queensland 24
 
3. Forest Track, Out Back 40
 
4. Coco-nut Palm in Full Fruit 52
 
5. Native Girl, Samoa 64
 
6. View of Apia from Mulinu 74
 
7. Planting Coco-nuts 84
 
8. Preparing Copra 104
 
9. Native Coast Village near Apia 116
 
10. Low-Caste Native Girl 126
 
11. Native Bamboo Bridge 138
 
12. Rarotongan Scenery 150
 
13. South Sea Lagoon 166
 
14. Native Girls making Kava 170
 
15. Para Rubber-Tree 182
 
16. Native Pottery 192
 
17. Loading Bananas 200
 
18. Coco-nut Palms and Pasture-land 210
 
19. Native Homestead 220
 
20. Native Canoes, Fiji 226
 
21. Homestead Scene, Queensland 236
 
22. Cabbage-Palm and Bush Land 250
 
23. Pastoral Scenery, N.S.W. 258
 
24. Modern Sheep-Shearers 280

The author is indebted to the Agent-General for Queensland for the photographs reproduced as plates 1, 2 and 3; to the High Commissioner for Australia for plates 21, 22, 23 and 24; to the Director of the Imperial Institute for plates 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20; and to Messrs W. A. Mansell & Co. for plates 5, 10, 12 and 13.