The Call Of The South

'The Call Of The South' is a novel written by Louis Becke. The story begins with a conversation between the narrator and Paul Fremont, a European diver, on a pearling lugger in a bay on Admiralty Island in the South Pacific. Paul is recovering from a bad attack of New Guinea fever and the narrator helps him to a cooler spot on shore to drink lime-juice. The narrator, who is yet to be named, is in charge of a supply schooner that serves the fleet of pearling luggers and is the only person to whom Paul will talk.