Michael Brother of Jerry

But Michael never sailed out of Tulagi nigger-chaser on the Eugenie. Once in five weeks the steamer Makambo made Tulagi its port of call on the way from New Guinea and the Shortlands to Australia. And on the night of her belated arrival Captain Kellar forgot Michael on the beach. In itself this was nothing for at midnight Captain Kellar was back on the beach himself climbing the high hill to the Commissioner's bungalow while the boat's crew vainly rummaged the landscape and canoe houses. In fact an hour earlier as the Makambo's anchor was heaving out and while Captain Kellar was descending the port gang-plank Michael was coming on board through a starboard port-hole. This was because Michael was inexperienced in the world because he was expecting to meet Jerry on board this boat since the last he had seen of him was on a boat and because he had made a friend.