The Queen Versus Billy, and Other Stories

Osbourne, Lloyd · 1947

Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/queenversesbilly00osborich It was the _Sandfly_, Captain Toombs, that brought the news to Sydney and intercepted her Majesty’s third-class cruiser _Stingaree_, as she lay in Man-of-War Cove, with her boats hoisted in and a deck-load of coal as high as her bulwarks, on the eve of a long trip into the western Pacific. It was the same old story--another white man sent to his last account in the inhospitable Solomons, where if the climate does not kill you the black man soon will: “Thomas Hysslop Biggar, commonly known as ‘Captain Tom’; aged forty-six; British subject; occupati…

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