The Pacific Triangle

BOOK THREE

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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