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The Bungalow, Dunk Island. 



Viewed from the coconut avenue leading to the beach 

 in Brammo Bay. 



[Photo.— r. Barrett. 



tropic sea ; and gave, in return, a 

 budget from the busy world, which my 

 friend, so many years ago, had counted 

 well lost for the peace and beauty of 

 his favoured isle. I have golden mem- 

 ories of my busy -idle days as Mr. E. 

 J. Banfield's guest, and the letters he 

 wrote to me are so crowded with pic- 

 tures of the isle and its Avild life, that, 

 reading them, I win back the pleasure 



of our rambles together. It is hard 

 to believe that he is dead. 



His years were no burden to " The 

 Beachcomber." I marvelled at his 

 vigor, as I toiled after him through the 

 brush, or along the sunlit beaches. 

 He tired me often, but showed no sign 

 of fatigue himself. And all the way he 

 talked delightfully of the joy of Ufe 

 on a tropic isle, of birds and their ways, 



