Appointment to Larrakia -- Commissioning of Larrakia -- Arrival at Darwin - The Tin shed -- Darwin -- Bathurst Island -- The lubra trade -- The rocky Point huts -- Prickly pear at Port Essington -- Search for missing monospar - Koepang -- Pearl shell of Arnhem land -- Christmas at Bathurst mission -- Storm in Darwin -- Arrest and release of Takachicho Maru no. 1 -- The new Administrator - the honorable C.L.A. Abbott -- Patrol to Liverpool river -- Arrests of Takachicho Maru no. 3 and New Guinea Maru -- Search for Larrakia by Dr. Fenton -- Probelms and planning -- The minister arrives. Arrest of Dai Nippon -- Patrol to Melville Bay - arrest of Tokio Maru -- The longest patrol - the Wessel Islands -- Reorganization - visit to Caledon Bay -- A last patrol - re-enacting the arrests -- The Darwin court hearings -- Epilogue
Summary
Personal reminiscences of Arnhem Land patrol boat captain, 1930s; many general references to Aborigines on Arnhem Land coast; Bathurst Island Monsignor Gsell, body painting (Snake Bay); trade between Aborigines & Japanese pearlers for use of Aboriginal women; Millingimbi - use of ant heads as suture for flesh wound; Yirkalla - brief reference to Wongu & Caledon Bay massacre
Notes
Available from Dr. J. S. Cumpston, 24 Holmes Crescent, Campbell, A.C.T. 2601
Includes index
Event
1971
Notes
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
