The best story in this collection, hands down, is "The House of Mapuhi" for being harrowing yet human, and for never going in the direction I was expecting. Fantastic read.

The next best was "The Seed of McCoy" about an on-fire ship trying to find a safe place to beach in a dangerous archipelago.

As for the rest...well, buckle up for some highly uncomfortable reading. London illustrates a brutal side of colonialism that is hard to stomach, and while he's clearly critiquing it, the gleeful violence occasionally confused me as to what the author was actually wanting to get across.