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	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.