Reproduction of the original: Tessa by Louis Becke
A small, squat and dirty-looking trading steamer, with the name Motutapu painted in yellow letters on her bows and stern, lay at anchor off the native village of Utiroa on Drummond's Island in the Equatorial Pa-cific. She was about 800 tons burden, and her stained and rusty sides...
Tessa
"Tessa" from George Lewis Becke. Australian pacific trader, short-story writer and novelist (1855-1913).
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Tessa is a gripping novel set in the South Pacific, unfolding aboard a trading steamer where tensions run high among the crew and passengers. The story follows a trader in poor health who becomes entangled in the power struggles between the corrupt captain and the dishonest supercargo...