Painting the Islands Vermilion: Archibald Watson and the brig "Carl".

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Melbourne U.P. (1999). 8vo. Or. cl. d.w. (XIV280pp.). Illust. Fine. NOTE: Archibald Watson a celebrated Australian surgeon anatomist and professor as a young man sailed on the notorious brig "Carl" during her recruiting voyage of 1871-2 in the South Seas in the shameful activity of "blackbirding" - the kidnapping of native islanders.