Note B — Chapter XVII · The great Catastrophe—Extinction of the Quadrucos—The Death of Zolca and of Azolta—I am left alone.

The hurricanes that break on the north-west coast of Australia equal in fury the typhoons of the northern tropic. Vessels belonging to the pearling fleet have been carried far into the mangroves and left high and dry. They are locally known as “willy-willys”.