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Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 Only a Cannibal
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'Blackbirder' Collidge is lured back to the island of Peka Takua by the expectation of making his fortune from pearl-diving. His wife becomes a 'perfectly willing' hostage held to force him to return the men he had taken into slavery in Queensland.

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 58 no. 692 1 November 1923 Z1593743 1923 periodical issue 1923 pg. 812-813
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