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months of this iiionotonoiis life Pini transferred to the 

 Moreton Bay Pilot service. Henceforth tired of subordinate 

 positions, he struck out for himself, and either alone or in 

 partnership occupied himself for some years in " sandalwood 

 getting "' on the Queensland coast ; then migrating to 

 Thursday Island he entered the " beche-de-mer " trade, and 

 to some slight extent that of " pearl shelling " also. He 

 successively owned, or jjart owned (it is uncertain ^hich), and 

 commanded, when not more than twenty-three years of age, 

 in 1888 the " Violet," a cutter of nine tons ; in 1889, the 

 " Alice '" and the " P.C!.E." respectively, a lugger of ten and 

 a cutter of nineteen tons ; and finally the " Whaup," a ketch 

 of thirty-four tons. In this last venture (Captain Pirn was in 

 partnership wiih a Mr. Luff, of Thursday Island. 



In these several voyages the subject of our notice made 

 money, which was spent in scientific research in Ne^' Guinea 

 and North Queensland. Towards the end of 1903 Mr. Pini 

 was in Sydney with the view of ol)taining a certificate ; he 

 passed as "only mate '" for fore-and-aft vessels on 11th 

 February, 1904. 



To\A'ards the end of 1903 there arrived in Sydney Major 

 W. Cooke Daniels, of the United States Army, who had been 

 Adjutant-rjeneral of Division in the Cuban campaign, accom- 

 panied l)y certain scientific friends. It was his purpose to 

 carry out anthropological and ethnologica 1 resea iches in South- 

 east New Guinea. For this purpose a schooner-yacht of 67 

 tons, called the "Kori," with auxiliary steam power and a 

 sea-going steam launch was brought from England. Mr. Pim 

 was appointed master, and the expedition left Sydney in 

 April, 1904. During the cruise he did excellent work by 

 surveying and charting Tokunu, or Alcester Island, in the 

 Trobriand Group, and Gawa Island, in the Marshall Bennett 

 Group. He also furnished a description of KwaiaMata 

 Island, in the same group, and this, with the above charts, 

 appeared in the " Geographical Journal "' for April, 1906, as 

 portion of a paper by Drs.C. G. Saligmann and W. M. Strong, 

 members of the exjoedition. the former of whom exj^ressed 

 his thanks to Captain Pim for the latter 's excellent services. 



After navigating the " Kori "' to Singapore on the 

 break up of the expedition Mr. Pim, in 1906, became con- 

 nected for a time with the Celebes Trading Company at the 

 Aru Islands. 



Mr. Pim ^\as appointed master of the " Endeavour " on 

 the 9th October, 1911. and so remained mitil disaster brought 

 about the untimely death of himself and companions, some- 

 where between Macquarie Island and either Ncav Zealand or 

 Tasmania. 



