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The Americans in the South Seas single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 1901... 1901 The Americans in the South Seas
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Account of the relationships and rivalries between English and American whalers and traders in the Pacific. According to Becke, the American trading and whaling industry in the Pacific region arose from the opportunity provided by the failure of Riou's ship, the Guardian, to deliver desperately needed supplies to penal N. S. W.

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'The Gallant, Good Riou' Louis Becke , Walter James Jeffery , 1901 single work prose
— Appears in: The Tapu of Banderah 1901; (p. 159-172)

Relates the story of Riou, one of Nelson's captains, whose ship, the Guardian, was badly damaged by an iceberg off the Cape of Good Hope while carrying provisions to N. S. W. The ship appeared doomed and the crew was given permission to leave, but Riou, three officers and a handful of men, including twenty convicts, remained on board. Against all odds they brought her back to the Cape of Good Hope nine weeks later. At Riou's request the twenty convicts were pardoned.
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