'Sheilah McLeod: A Heroine of the Back Blocks' is a novel written by Guy Boothby. The story begins as the narrator was walking around the veranda, observing a group of native girls making tappa and glancing into the copra shed and the trade room, which were full and empty respectively. He was waiting for the arrival of the company's schooner, which was overdue by ten days, but the wind was failing and it was unlikely to arrive that day.
