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They had evidently been out with pearlers at some time in their lives, but had returned to their native wilds many years before our visit. I was sorely puzzled. A glance at a map of Australia will enable the reader to realise my great blunder.
"We'll hit the Bull's Kid hard for about a week mix it with the fellers in from way back you know dry-blowers, pearlers, spending it easy handing their money to Bessie behind the bar and restless because she makes it last too long; watch them a while and get in touch with all that's happening; then flit out of Sydney like bats out of and hump blue eh?" "Something'll turn up; it always does.
For the world like the days I spint with the pearlers, watchin' the coral banks a-growin' the same as so many gardens under the sea. There it was, the anchor-ice, clingin' an' clusterin' to ivery rock, after the manner of the white coral. 'But the best of the sight was to come.
A year had come and gone, and Lester found himself in Sydney. He liked the free, open life among the pearlers, and intended to go back after a month or so of idleness in the southern city. One evening he strolled into the bar of Pfahlerts Hotel and ordered a whisky-and-soda. The girl he spoke to looked into his face for a moment and then nearly fainted it was Nina Charlton!
When the law decreed that only white labor must be employed on the fleets a number of the pearlers went north and became Dutch citizens, for from ports in the Dutch Indies they could work Australian waters up to the three-mile limit.
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