Battling with waves and lawyers

THIRD EDITION. REVISED AND ENLARGED.
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.
COMPILED BY J. ARBUCKLE REID
AUTHOR OF “THE AUSTRALIAN READER,” “SEAMEN AND SHIPWRECKS,” ETC.
“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,