Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Bold text displayed as: =bold= 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, Thee to correct in any part or all.” CHAUCER. * * * * * LONDON SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD. PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON, AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY. CONTENTS. PAGE AMONG THE BILLOWS 54 APPLICATION FOR NEW TRIAL 218 BATTLING WITH WAVES AND LAWYERS 199 DISCOVERY OF PONTING 33 DIVISION OF THE SPOIL 277 FINAL BATTLE WITH THE LAWYERS 245 GRATITUDE 85 HINTS ON SWIMMING 82 INTRODUCTORY 17 LANDING 74 MORNING 70 NEW TRIAL 238 NIGHT 63 PLAINTIFF’S CASE 92 SORRENTO 27 THE VOYAGE 45 THE DEFENCE 143 ILLUSTRATIONS. AMONG THE BILLOWS 62 CAPE SCHANCK 47 LORD BRASSEY 13 CAPTAIN MATHIESON 15 OCEAN BEACH 75 PONTING AND “VICTOR HUGO” 81 PONTING AND HIS FRIEND “VICTOR HUGO” IN 1899 261 RESCUE OF PONTING 31