In the island trading towns of Papua the narrator falls in with a mysterious French Marquis, the sharp-eyed Mrs. Daisie and a stone with uncanny powers that everyone seems to want. Their hunt leads through jungle villages and the Stone Oven country to a struggle between two divers at twelve fathoms, with cassowaries, hymn books and a strange burial along the way.
A colourful South Seas adventure from a writer who lived for years in New Guinea, written with the colonial outlook of its time. Download the free EPUB.