[Grant Watson, E. L. (Elliot Lovegood), 1946, But To What Purpose: the autobiography of a contemporary, The Cresset Press, London, Chapter 15]
CHAPTER XV
Bernier Island
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To this pier came from time to time steamers plying from Singapore to Fremantle, to be loaded with bales of wool. The arrival of the Singapore boat was an event, and one not to be missed by dwellers in a desert township. Those who could spare the time went crowding on to the trucks, to meet in the berthed ship at the end of the pier varied specimens from the great world beyond:--Manila men, Chinamen, Japs, Whites, all mixtures of all races; and here could be bought bananas and mangosteens and mangoes and oranges and lemons and other more contraband products of the tropics.
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