Eventually the whites again sought them and made peace, the blacks promising to conduct themselves more obediently in the future.

It may here be said that the ship had called specially at Jacky Jacky's home on the coast to kidnap the natives.
On arriving at the pearling settlement, the blacks found themselves among a number of other unfortunate creatures like themselves, and all were compelled to go out in pearling vessels just as the exigencies of the industry required.

Jacky Jacky himself was kept at this work for upwards of three years; and he told me many terrible stories of the white man's indescribable cruelty and villainy.

He and his companions were invariably chained up during the night and driven about like cattle in the daytime.

Many of his mates at the pearling settlement had been kidnapped from their homes in a cruel and contemptible manner, and herded off like sheep by men on horseback armed with formidable weapons.
Their sufferings were very great because, of course, they were totally unused to work of any kind.