No 10. John Kanaka

This halyard shanty was one of thirty six collected from “Harding, the Barbadian“ by Stan Hugill and included in the collection “Shanties from the Seven Seas“ (Dutton & Co, London, 1961). Over 60,000 Melano-Polynesians were recruited in Australia from 1863 on and most were subsequently deported in the period 1906-08 under the “White Australia“ policy