Part I, Series N, Section 2 - Stories: ‘Western Pacific High Commission'
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Item Open Access Series N, Section 2: A tale of three traders(2016)Macdonald's account of Solomon Islands black birding or slave trading, arms trading among the natives, as well as killing and retribution on various islands in the South Pacific.Item Open Access Series N, Section 2: From the Gilbert Islands to Guatemala and back(2016)Macdonald's stories of Gilbertese slavery in the Pacific and Central and South America and breaches of contracts in repatriating them at the end of their service.Item Open Access Item Open Access Series N, Section 2: Power comes out of the barrel of a gun (Mao-tse-tung)(2016)Role of the Royal Navy in the Gilbert Islands in the 19th century.Item Open Access Series N, Section 2: The Case of the Young Dick(2016)Revenge attack on British recruiter John Hornidge by natives of Malaita Island, as well as further attacks on the boat "Young Dick" in answer to British retaliation (destruction by bombardment of village and crops).Item Open Access Series N, Section 2: The Femme Fatale "Housekeeper"(2016)Tales of life in the New Hebrides in 1870-1890Item Open Access Series N, Section 2: The Isabelle Tragedy(2016)The tragedy of the "Isabelle", recruiting ship, where sailors and native crewmen were murdered in revenge for the voluntary recruiting of the chief's daughter. Retaliation of the British by hunting down the perpetrators as far as possible.Item Open Access Series N, Section 2: The May Queen Massacre(2016)The story of the massacre in 1881 of some crew members of the British ship, 'May Queen' engaged in "black birding" or recruitment of Islanders for labouring in the Queensland cane fields.Item Open Access Series N, Section 2: The Reluctant Empire Builders(2016)History of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands' colonisation by the British in 1892, as well as American and German interests in the Protectorate.Item Open Access Series N, Section 2: The would-be Empire Builder(2016)King Tem Binoka of Apemama took over from his father in 1878 (and ruled till 18910 as a paranoid greedy tyrant, seeing himself as the Napoleon of the South Seas.