Biggles meets an old friend, Sandy, who happens to know where to find a bed of pearls in the Pacific (The South Seas), but need someone to finance an expedition. Biggles is game, and they are off to a small island off Australia. There they pick up some locals who I put as some of the most interesting side characters in a Biggles book. I want to know more about Full Moon, a pearl diver who helps them.

Of course, as most other books taking place away from west Europe, the description of locals is ignorant and often cringeworthy but the worst in this one is where W. E. Johns talks about their "simple minds". Then he lets them act in a way that is more intelligent than what we usually see from Ginger. ( )

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