Tropic Days

Excerpt

In my previous books the endeavour was to give exact if prosaic details
of life on an island off the coast of North Queensland on which a few of
the original inhabitants preserved their uncontaminated ways.  Here is
presented another instalment of sketches of a quiet scene.  Again an
attempt is made to describe—­not as ethnological specimens, but as men and
women—­types of a crude race in ordinary habit as they live, though not
without a tint of imagination to embolden the better truths.