blackbirder

"blackbirder" -- "labour vessel," the wise it call -- nothing more will be needed to convince the initiated that I have moved in the "nine circles" of Polynesia.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

I never saw "Flash Harry" again, for a few months later I left Samoa for the Caroline Group, and when I returned a year afterwards I was told that he had at last found the country too hot for him and had left the island in a German "blackbirder" bound to the Solomon Islands.

The Flemmings And "Flash Harry" Of Savait From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 Louis Becke 1884

After many years as supercargo, 'blackbirder' {*} and trader in the South

Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884

Let us now suppose that a "blackbirder" (obnoxious name to many recruiters) from Samoa, Fiji, or Queensland, has reached one of the New

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

Let me now describe an ordinary cruise of a "blackbirder" vessel -- an honest ship with an honest skipper and crew, and, above all, a straight

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

German "blackbirder" named the _Samoa_, though the captain and the crew swore they knew nothing of the matter.

The Flemmings And "Flash Harry" Of Savait From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 Louis Becke 1884

a "blackbirder" often presented a horrid spectacle -- the unfortunate

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

Bateman of the blackbirder NARI? he wondered; and had Captain

THE RED ONE 2010

Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder.

THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN 2010

Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugénie, who rescued me.

JERRY OF THE ISLANDS 2010