For
nearly seven years, Mr. Haynes has been assiduously collecting
information for this work, and to his pen is due the chapter on "
Pearling Life," not to mention important contributions to many other
chapters.
I
have also to acknowledge the valuable services rendered me by the late
Capt. Chippindall, R.N., who for nearly seven years commanded my
Pearling fleet in these waters, and to whose unwearied exertions and
faithful discharge of duty, the fleet has been brought to its present
state of efficiency. Nor can I omit mention of my son, the late Harry
Edwin Streeter, who was the first to discover shell in Port Darwin, and
who passed away in the flower of his life while Pearling in the waters
of the Southern hemisphere.
