Publisher's Synopsis
FIRST and foremost, my name, age, description, and occupation, as they say in the PoliceGazette. Richard Hatteras, at your service, commonly called Dick, of Thursday Island, North Queensland, pearler, copra merchant, beche-de-mer and tortoise-shell dealer, and South Sea trader generally. Eight-and-twenty years of age, neither particularlygood-looking nor, if some people are to be believed, particularly amiable, six feet two inmy stockings, and forty-six inches round the chest; strong as a Hakodate wrestler, andperfectly willing at any moment to pay ten pounds sterling to the man who can put meon my ba
