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    Sarréo 1901
    Sarréo 1901
    Sarréo 1901
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    Sarréo 1901

    By Louis Becke

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Sarréo 1901 - Louis Becke

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      Title: Sarréo

             1901

      Author: Louis Becke

      Release Date: April 19, 2008 [EBook #25107]

      Last Updated: January 8, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SARRÉO ***

      Produced by David Widger

      SARRÉO

      From The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories

      By Louis Becke

      C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.

      1901

      Well, there's niggers an' niggers, some just as good as any white man, said Mr. Thomas Potter as he, the second mate of the island-trading barque Reconnaisance, and Denison the supercargo, walked her short, stumpy poop one night, though when I was before the mast I couldn't stand one of 'em bunking too close to me—not for a long time. But after awhile I found out that a Kanaka or a Maori is better than the usual run of the paint-scrubbing Jack Dog who calls himself a sailorman nowadays. Why, I've never seen a native sailor yet as was dirty in his habits—they're too fond o' the water. Look at these Rotumah chaps aboard here—if there's a calm they'll jump overboard and take a swim instead of turning in when it's their watch below. Bah, white sailors ain't worth feeding in this Island trade—lazy, dirty, useless brutes; a Kanaka is worth three of any one of 'em. Did you notice that photograph in my cabin—that one showing a ship's company standing on deck?

      Yes, I did, replied Denison.

      "Well, that's the crew of the Fanny Long, and amongst 'em is a fellow I'm goin' to tell you about—a chap named Sarréo. We had that picture taken in Hobart after we had come back from a sperm whaling cruise. We had been very lucky, and the skipper and owners had all our photographs taken in a group. I was second mate, and this Sarréo was one of the boatsteerers. Him and me had been shipmates before, once in the old Meteor barque, nigger-catching for the Fiji planters, and once in

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