XVI. 



For nearly seven years, Mr. Haynes has been 

 assiduously collecting information for this work, 

 and to his pen is due the chapter on " Pearling Life," 

 not to mention important contributions to many 

 other chapters. 



I have also to acknowledge the valuable services 

 rendered me by the late Capt. Chippindall, R.N., who 

 for nearly seven years commanded my Pearling 

 fleet in these waters, and to whose unwearied 

 exertions and faithful discharge of duty, the fleet 

 has been brought to its present state of efiiciency. 

 Nor can I omit mention of my son, the late 

 Harry Edwin Streeter, who was the first to discover 

 shell in Port Darwin, and who passed away in the 

 flower of his life while Pearling in the waters of the 

 Southern hemisphere. 



London^ December, 1886. 



