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CHAPTER X. Pearling Life at the Present Day.
"
Ocean's gem the purest Of Nature's works ! What days of weary
journeyings, What sleepless nights, what toils on land and sea. Are
borne by men to gain thee ! "
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HIS
chapter is written in order to give our readers some little idea of an
inÂdustry which is carried on in remote places, until recently out of
the track of ordinary shipping, away from all centres of civilization,
and under circumstances of no ordinary danger.
The
finest and most complete pearling vessel afloat is the "Sree Pas-Sair,"
("The Belle of Pas-Sair," a district in Borneo), a brigantine of 112
tons, bought and equipped by the late Mr. E. C. Chippindall, R.N., at
the expense of the author
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