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Lippincott Company 1904 Contents CAPTAIN “BULLY” HAYES THE “WHALE CURE” THE SEA “SALMON” SEASON IN AUSTRALIA “JACK SHARK” SOME PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHES “LUCK” CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV BULL-DOGS OF THE SEA “REVENGE” SAUNDERSON AND THE DYNAMITE THE STEALING OF SA LUIA 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 irritating to many of my readers; if so I can only plead that it is almost impossible when writing of wild life in the Southern Seas to avoid mentioning him. Every one who sailed the Austral seas between the “fifties” and “seventies,” and thousands who had not, knew of him and had heard tales of him. In some eases these tales were to his credit; mostly they were not. However, the writer makes no further apology for reproducing the following sketch of the great “Bully” which he contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette, and which, by the courtesy of the editor of that journal, he is able to include in this volume. In a most interesting, though all too brief, sketch of the life of the late Rev. James Chalmers, the famous New Guinea missionary, which appeared in the January number of a popular religious magazine, the author, the Rev. Richard Lovett, gives us a brief glance of the notorious Captain “Bully” Hayes. Mr. Chalmers, in 1866, sailed for the South Seas with his wife in the missionary ship John Williams—the second vessel of that name, the present beautiful steamer being the fourth John Williams. The second John Williams had but… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fa-memory-of-the-southern-seas-1904) The sample continues in the full work. 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