xvi, 440 pp. With numerous engravings including the frontispiece; 5 maps. (8vo), original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

An attempt by the author to justify the displacement of the "Kanakas" to work in the plantations of Northern Queensland - where they provided a "class of labourers better able to endure the climate than Europeans, as well as to work at a cheaper rate" - in response to mounting political outrage back in England.