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Rídan The Devil And Other Stories: 1899 by Louis Becke is a collection of short stories from the famed Australian pacific trader, short-story writer and novelist. Rídan the Devil, A Memory of The System, A North Pacific Lagoon Island, Bilger, of Sydney, The Vision of Milli the Slave, Denison Gets a Berth Ashore, Addie Ransom: A Memory of the Tokelaus, In a Native Village, Maurice Kinane, The Killers of Twofold Bay, Denison's Second Berth Ashore, A Fish Drive on Micronesian Atoll, Bobaran, Sea Fishing in Australia, An Adventure in the New Hebrides, The South Sea Bubbles of Charles Du Breil, The White Wife and the Brown Woman, With Hook and Line on an Austral River, The Wreck of the Leonora: A Memory of Bully Hayes, An Old Colonial Mutiny, A Boating Adventure in the Carolines, and A Christmas Eve in the Far South Seas.

Reproduction of the original: Ridan the Devil and Other Stories by Louis Becke