Chapter I: Front Matter

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BATTLING WITH WAVES
AND LAWYERS

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_THIRD EDITION. REVISED AND ENLARGED._

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A GENUINE HISTORY OF PERILS OF THE DEEP,

AND

AN AUTHENTIC RECORD OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SHIPPING
CASE EVER DEALT WITH IN THE SUPREME
COURTS OF AUSTRALASIA.

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COMPILED BY
J. ARBUCKLE REID

AUTHOR OF “THE AUSTRALIAN READER,” “SEAMEN AND SHIPWRECKS,” ETC.

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“Truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”

BYRON.

“Go, little book, God send thee good passage,
And specially let this be thy prayere
Unto them all that thee will read or hear,
Where thou art wrong, after their help to call,
Thee to correct in any part or all.”

CHAUCER.

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LONDON

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD.

PRINTED BY
HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

AMONG THE BILLOWS 54

APPLICATION FOR NEW TRIAL 218

BATTLING WITH WAVES AND LAWYERS 199

DISCOVERY OF PONTING 33

DIVISION OF THE SPOIL 277

FINAL BATTLE WITH THE LAWYERS 245

GRATITUDE 85

HINTS ON SWIMMING 82

INTRODUCTORY 17

LANDING 74

MORNING 70

NEW TRIAL 238

NIGHT 63

PLAINTIFF’S CASE 92

SORRENTO 27

THE VOYAGE 45

THE DEFENCE 143

ILLUSTRATIONS.

AMONG THE BILLOWS 62

CAPE SCHANCK 47

LORD BRASSEY 13

CAPTAIN MATHIESON 15

OCEAN BEACH 75

PONTING AND “VICTOR HUGO” 81

PONTING AND HIS FRIEND “VICTOR HUGO” IN 1899 261

RESCUE OF PONTING 31

SORRENTO 25

S.S. ALERT 41

S.S. ALERT BEFORE ALTERATIONS 89

S.S. ALERT SINKING 55

S.S. SUNBEAM 237

SUPREME COURT BUILDINGS 243

TESTIMONIAL _at End of Book_

THE PANTRY WINDOW 151

TO
LORD BRASSEY,
IN HIS TRIPLE CAPACITY OF LAWYER, MASTER-MARINER,
AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION
ON UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS,
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY
THE AUTHOR.

S.S. _Alert_.]

Battling with the Waves.