"I'll man the whale-boat to-morrow and go over to Tulagi." "But as I told you before, that is impossible," he cried.

"There is no one there.

The Resident Commissioner is away in Australia.

Them is only one white man, a third assistant understrapper and ex-sailor--a common sailor.

He is in charge of the government of the Solomons, to say nothing of a hundred or so niggers--prisoners.