AUTHOR'S NOTE 



IN my previous books the endeavour was to give exact 

 if prosaic details of life on an island off the coast of 

 North Queensland on which a few of the original in- 

 habitants preserved their uncontaminated ways. Here 

 is presented another instalment of sketches of a quiet 

 scene. Again an attempt is made to describe not 

 as ethnological specimens, but as men and women 

 types of a crude race in ordinary habit as they live, 

 though not without a tint of imagination to embolden 

 the better truths. 



I thankfully acknowledge indebtedness to my friends 

 Mr. Charles Hedley, of the Australian Museum (Sydney) ; 

 Dr. R. Hamlyn-Harris, Director of the Queensland 

 Museum; and Mr. Dodd S. Clarke, of Townsville, N.Q., 

 for valuable aid in the preparation of my notes for 

 publication. 



DUNK ISLAND. 



