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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A Sailor-Consul's Work for His Country and for Humanity - Being a Record of the Services of Captain William B. Pauli, R.N., As One of Her Majesty's Consuls in Spain Between the Years 1873-1883 - by C. J. A. Front cover title is: "Memoir of Capt. W.B. Pauli R.N.". Title page notes: "For Private Circulation". No date (circa 1883 as per title, or 1884, with former owner's long ink notation to ffep dated Dec. 9, 1884). The memoir mentions H.M. brig Jumna (Pauli was midshipman in 1848), and that in 1857 Pauli was serving as lieutenant on board H.M. ship Actaeon in China when he jumped overboard & saved a seaman in Hong Kong harbour, which was notorious for sharks. He was given the command of gunboat Haughty, and Captain Pauli was in command of H.M. gunboat Louisa at the bombardment of Sweaborg. Online research reveals that Captain William Berjew Pauli, R.N., commanded HMS Louisa in 1856, and from The London Gazette (May 8, 1874), "the Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Captain William Berjew Pauli, now British Vice-Consul at Carthagena, to be Her Majesty's Consul in the island of Porto Rico". Another London Gazette (Dec. 20, 1878), notes "the Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Commander William Berjew Pauli, R.N., now Her Majesty's Consul at Cadiz, to be Her Majesty's Consul in the Phillipine Islands, to reside at Manila". Papers in an archive at Durham University Library reveal that Captain William Pauli was appointed "several vice-consul and consul posts after leaving the Navy, then appointed Consul at Cadiz in 1877, and Consul in the Philippine Islands to reside at Manila in November 1878. Consul at Buenos Ayres from 1881. Died 1884.". In the final four pages of the memoir Pauli gives a short account of H.M. sloop Jumna which was thrown on her beam during a hurricane in 1848. Thin volume. Printed in Great Britain by R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Bread Street Hill, London. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth, gilt lettering & blind-stamped border design to front board, spine unlettered, brown endpapers. Slight handling wear, former owner's contemporary ink notation/poem [?] to ffep (quite faint & therefore somewhat illegible), signatures a little tender (but holding), otherwise a nice clean solid hardcover copy. 47pp. Scarce title. RARE.