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course of time he directed his activities, with the assistance of his 

 elder son, chiefly to pearl- shelling among the islands of the Coral 

 Sea. He DIED at Somerset on i8th March, 1919, after a short illness, 

 having retained his vigour almost to the last. It is said that he 

 kept a DIARY, covering the whole of his northern life. It is to be 

 hoped that this diary will be given to the public. It should be an 

 historical record such as very few men have had the opportunity 

 of compiling. 



EULAH, one of the black boys who came with the Brothers to 

 Somerset in 1865, settled down there with Frank. He was a 

 member of a party of white men and friendly blacks who were 

 surprised and KILLED by the NATIVES in a hut at Vallack Point a few 

 years later. 1 



1 A. Meston, " A Tour in North Queensland," Queenslander, i6th-3oth January, 

 1897. 



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