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MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS

By A. SAFRONI-MIDDLETON

March

Our Fleet War March of the Allied Sailors and Soldiers. Dedicated by special permission of Lady Jellicoe to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and the British Fleet, 1915. Pianoforte and Military Band.

Entracte

The Monks Dream (Full Military)

Romanza

Song of the Night (Full Military)

Waltz

Firenze (Military)

Regimental Marches

By Order of the King	Also Pianoforte Solo
Imperial Echoes	Also Pianoforte Solo
The Colours	Also Pianoforte Solo
Salute the Standard	Also Pianoforte Solo
Under the Old Flag	Also Pianoforte Solo
Our Fleet	Also Pianoforte Solo
Sierra Leone	Also Pianoforte Solo
The Relief	Also Pianoforte Solo
The Night Riders	Also Pianoforte Solo
Rough Diamonds	Also Pianoforte Solo
The Stronghold	Also Pianoforte Solo
Half Seas Over	Also Pianoforte Solo
House of Hanover	Also Pianoforte Solo
Light of the Regiment	Also Pianoforte Solo
The Dashing British	Also Pianoforte Solo
The Scottish Chief	Also Pianoforte Solo
The Dandy Fifth	Also Pianoforte Solo
Cashmere
The Long Bright Line
Paramatta
Carrara
Old Castille
Bohemia
Il Cavaliere
The Military Call	Also Pianoforte Solo
The Boundary Riders	Also Pianoforte Solo

Etc.

Songs

Samoan Love Song and Waltz

A Soldiers Dream

By the Delawar

South Sea Melodies

Alabama Way

Etc., etc.

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Published by BOOSEY & Co., London, Aldershot and New York

Played by Military Regimental Bands throughout the World

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Lieutenant J. Ord Hume , L. F., the distinguished Composer, Bandmaster and Contest Adjudicator of the British Empire, says: I consider Safroni-Middletons rousing Military Marches the finest of recent years, and unique productions, coming as they do from the pen of a sailor.

SAILOR AND BEACHCOMBER

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Tree Climbing

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SAILOR AND BEACHCOMBER

CONFESSIONS OF A LIFE AT SEA, IN AUSTRALIA

AND AMID THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC

BY

A. SAFRONI-MIDDLETON

WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

LONDON

GRANT RICHARDS LTD.

ST MARTINS STREET

LEICESTER SQUARE

MDCCCCXV

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PRINTED BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED

EDINBURGH

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I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

TO THE MEMORY OF

MY BROTHER

MORTIMER HUGH MIDDLETON

AGED SIXTEEN YEARS

Lost overboard in mid-ocean while serving

before the mast of a sailing

ship outbound for

Australia

ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF

CAPTAIN POPPY

Of the sailing ship Aristides, lost

with all hands

AND TO THE MEMORY OF

MY COMRADES

Of the Australian Bush and

the South Sea Islands

Old comrades, by my fire in dreams

Your hands I clasp to-night;

Heaven starlit oer the forest gleams

As neath the blood-woods height

You lie with folded hands asleep

By shores of tumbling waves,

As I creep up each silent steep

To kiss forgotten graves.

The soul of all the songs I sing,

Whatever sounds most true,

I dedicate each wild true ring,

Inspired, old chums, by you.

The world grieves not that you are dead

Brave, reckless men who died,

Crept from their camp-fires back to bed

Along the wild hill-side.

But, comrades, neath the hills or waves,

Could one sad song of mine

Reveal dead souls of far-off graves,

Twould be a song divine.

As pure and sweet as flowers that grow

Where once with wild delight

You sang, where bush-flowers, bursting, blow

Thro dead fire-ash to-night.

And so in dreams I take your hands,

In long-dead eyes I gaze,

And half in tears from other lands

Bring back the dear old days.

In other lands neath greyer skies

Wild rides again recall,

Your songs, your laughing, manly eyes

The boy who loved you all.

Lies in my sea-chest neath my bed

The fiddle, stringless, still;

Old chums, since all of you are dead,

Neath forest steep and hill,

I cannot play the songs you loved;

But with tired eyes and pen

I strive to tell the truth, who roved,

And found youGods best men.

PREFACE

In the following chapters, wherein I have endeavoured to write down my experiences at sea, in Australia and on the South Sea Islands, I have not gone beyond the first four or five years of my life abroad, but later on I hope to do so, if I get the chance. I have made no attempt to moralise in my book, and if I appear to have been guilty of doing so, be assured it was a spasm of the intellect and quite forgotten all about a few minutes after I had written it down.

All I have attempted in this book is to endeavour to tell exactly my experiences as they occurred in my travels in many lands; also I have wished to reveal a little of the usual experiences, the ups and downs, that youths pass through when they go to sea and are left completely on their own in other lands, seeking to see the world, often ambitious to find a fortune, but generally succeeding in only gathering heaps of grim experiences. Unfortunately no one can buy his experience first, and so the general rule of green fortune-seekers overseas is to end in failure, and to be honest, I was no exception to the rule. Nevertheless my loss of all that might have been was amply compensated by the rough brave men whom I met, seafarers and otherwise, who revealed to me the best side of humanity and the value of good comradeship: devil-may-care fellows with hearts that were blazing hearth-fires of welcome in the coldest days of adversity of long ago, ere I, crammed up with experience and nothing much else, down in the stokehold of a tramp steamer, returned across the ocean to my native land, eventually to get the roving fever and again go seaward.

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