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WITHOUT doubt, General Flag-Croucher was the biggest personage who had yet set military heels upon the coast of New Guinea.
He was not an explorer, although he had once upon a time tried to organize an expedition in England, the purpose of which was to take possession of the land something after the style of William at Hastings, the noble General to be William the Conqueror, of course. The project had fallen through, as a great many of the General's projects fell to pieces, from lack of the one thing needful--cash.