BOOK THREE
DISCUSSION OF THE POLITICAL PROBLEMS INVOLVING AUSTRALASIA, ASIA AND AMERICA
XVIII AUSTRALASIA 281 XIX JAPAN AND ASIA 297 XX AMERICA 312 XXI WHERE THE PROBLEM DOVETAILS 330 XXII AUSTRALIA AND THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE 347 XXIII POLITICAL ALLIES AND FINANCIAL CONSORTS 364 XXIV UNCHARTED SEAS 384
APPENDIX 395
INDEX 397
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Eruption of volcano on the island of Kyushu, Japan _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Map of the Pacific 16
Diamond head near Honolulu 20
The hulk of the German man-of-war, the _Adler_ 20
After seven days of sea--this emerged 21
Hilo, Hawaii 21
Even Fijians are loath to forget the arts of their forefathers 28
In giant canoes Heliolithic immigrants roamed the South Seas 29
There are only a few Chinese women in Hawaii 36
A sage in a china shop at Honolulu 36
Feminine propriety 37
Whoa! Let's have our picture taken 37
Miles away rose the fumes of Kilauea 44
The largest cauldron of molten rock on earth 44
A river of rock pouring out into the sea 45
Whirling eddies of lava undermining frozen lava projections 45
Where the tides turn to stone 48
A blizzard of fuming heat 48
The lake of spouting molten lava 49
A corner of Suva, Fiji 64
Food for a day's gossip 64
The long and the short of it 65
A Hindu patriarch 65
The scowl indicates a complex 68
Instructor of the Fijian constabulary 68
A Fijian Main Street 69
Little Fijians 69
One of the most gifted of Fijian chiefs 76
Cacarini (Katherine), the chief's daughter 76
Fijians dance from the hip up 77
A Fijian wedding 77
The street along the waterfront of Apia, Samoa 96
I thought the village back of Apia, Samoa, was deserted, but it was only the noon hour 96
Tattooing of the legs is an essential in Samoa 97
Contact with California created this combination of scowl, bracelets and boy's boots--but Fulaanu beside her was incorruptible 97
Dunedin, New Zealand 112
Bridges are still luxuries in many places in New Zealand 112
The fiords and sounds of New Zealand 113
Lake Wanaka, New Zealand 113
The S. S. _Aurora_ 128
Mount Cook of the New Zealand Alps in summer 128
Circular quay, Sydney, Australia 129
Monument to Captain Cook 129
One of the oldest Australian residences is now a public domain 144
The interior of a wealthy sheep station owner's home in Melbourne 144
Australian blacks in their native element 145
An Australian black in Melbourne 145
Filipino lighters drowsing in the evening shadows 160
The docile water buffalo is used to walking in mud 160
One can throw a brick and hit seven cathedrals in Manila 161
Cool and silent are the mossy streets of the walled city of Manila 161
In China drinking-water, soap-suds, soup and sewers all find their source in the same stream 176
Shanghai youngsters putting their heads together to make us out 176
This old woman is laying down the law to the wild young things of China 177
China could turn these mud houses into palaces if she wished--she is rich enough 177
Fujiyama 192
Sea, earth and sky 193
This Hindu has usurped the job of the chieftains' daughters 224
An Indian coolie village 224
A Maori Haka in New Zealand 225
A Maori canoe hurdling race 225
Three views of a Maori woman 240
A group of whites and half-castes in Samoa 241
A ship-load of "picture-brides" arriving at Seattle 241
A Maori woman with her children 241
Beauty is more than skin-deep 256
A half-caste Fijian maiden 257
A full-blooded Fijian maiden 257
Fijian village 272
Little fish went to this market 272
Good luck must attend these traders at the doors of the cathedrals in Manila 273
A Fijian bazar is a red letter day 273
The mountains are called the Remarkables 284
The Blue Mountains of Australia 284
Australia denuding herself 285
Australia is not all desert and plain 288
People are small amidst Australia's giant tree ferns 289
Japan's first reaction to foreign influence 304
Second stage in Westernization 304
Third stage in Westernization 305
Fourth stage in Westernization 305
Lord Lansdowne and Baron Tadasu Hayashi 352
Prince Ito 352
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen 352
Thomas W. Lamont 353
Wellington Koo 353
Yukio Osaki, M.P. and Ex-Minister of Justice 353