The author, for many years a jute-trader in Inda, here recounts some Arabia Sea adventures, including opium-running, love affairs, shipwreck, dodging a British cruiser. First American edition, hardcover in jacket as pictured, full orange cloth, black titling. Book shows light wear, edges a bit rubbed, corners bumped; price-clipped jacket torn & heavily chipped, spine faded with a small waterspot, light stain to front panel. Rubberstamp of O. W. Hoop, U.S. Army on front & rear endsheets; Hoop served from 1900 to 1943, rising to Colonel; he is remembered for his memoir of life at Camp Douglas from 1902-04. Text clean; xviii, 456 pages, map endsheets. Size: Octavo