Jerry of the Islands

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is a misfortune to some fiction-writers that fiction and unveracity in the average person's mind mean one and the same thing. Several years ago I published a South Sea novel. The action was placed in the Solomon Islands. The action was praised by the critics and reviewers as a highly creditable effort of the imagination. As regards reality - they said there wasn't any. Of course as every one knew kinky-haired cannibals no longer obtained on the earth's surface much less ran around with nothing on chopping off one another's heads and on occasion a white man's head as well. Now listen. I am writing these lines in Honolulu Hawaii. Yesterday on the beach at Waikiki a stranger spoke to me. He mentioned a mutual friend Captain Kellar. When I was wrecked in the Solomons on the blackbirder the Minota it was Captain Kellar master of the blackbirder the Eugenie who rescued me. The blacks had taken Captain Kellar's head the stranger told me. He knew. He had represented Captain Kellar's mother in settling up the estate.