1st Ed. XVI, 407 PP, (1 appendix: "Petition by the inhabitants of Tanna to be annexed by Australia"), (14 publications), plus 1 map (in colour) and the frontispiece. Frontispiece with tissue guard has 5 portraits (Author, Maafu, Thakambau, The Rev. James Chalmers and Commandant Servan). Tinted endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover, gilt title and decoration (Portrait of Thakambau) on dulled spine. Hinges and gutters either splitting or fragile. Occasional foxing. Name of previous owner at top of title page (crossed out). Discreet small name stamp of a previous owner on recto of frontispiece, Page V, top of Contents page and head of Chapter I. An otherwise very good clean copy. Scarce. 19.8 x 13. The first journalist to visit New Caledonia and New Hebrides at the time of the Kanak insurrection of 1878 (while exploring the Anglo-Saxon world in the Pacific: Fiji, Tonga, New Guinea) and why the New Hebrides should become Australian. They hated the Man Wee Wee, ("oui oui"), ie.: the French. . Life on board a "Labour Vessel". A visit to Port Moresby.

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Title: CANNIBALS & CONVICTS: Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific
Publisher: Cassell & Co. London. .
Publication Date: 1886
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition

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