The Pacific Triangle

by Sydney Greenbie

D

April 24, 1921

Dear Madam:

Thank you very much for the letter which came some four months ago. I read it over, over and over again to memorise every word of the letter, and it was a glad toil. I thought of you and Mr. ... I thought of Messrs. F.... D.... and R.... and Miss G...., every body to-gether and every body separate that gave me untold happiness, and I heard the throbs of my heart. I told to my wife who is very glad to hear from me. As you know I got married in the year of 1913. And we have five children now. Please don't be scared! Two boys and three daughters. Takako oldest daughter six year, seven months old. Takashige, William (boy) four years; Fuziko Elsie two years and nearly four months; Chiyeko, Lucie eight months old. And this made me perfect papa, which is my joy and my pride! Beside this I have thirty acres of orange orchard (four years old) all is my own, and my wife's now which brought me four (boxes-horses) (?) poor fruit year before last, and seventy two boxes better fruit last year. I am expecting greater crop this fall. I read Mr. —— article about June drop in California Cultivator, and irrigated my orchards last December and this year I started to wet from February which no body does this in this visinity (orchardists of here keep orchards with weeds and wild oats as high as my shoulder all winter and they wait irrigation until orchards perfectly dry and cracke.) I am taking care our orchards after Mr. —— idea mostly with some of my own, as I feel as it mine but all of them are a collection of idea of other people's experiences.

I have debt of five thousand five hundreds dollars which need not to pay interest except one thousand five hundred dollars. This is my joy and my pride too, is it not?

Five children and five thousand five hundreds dollars debt are not big job to carry on, for me, but they make me very busy indeed. For this reason, I do not write to my friends, as often as I wish, of course I can, if I do, like this one, but it is great strain for me now.

Therefore please will kindly excuse, I shall not write you again until next Christmas probably.

Please remember me to Mr. —— and All your family.

When you will come to Terra Bella to see Mr. ——.

When you have spare time, and when you thought of old servant, please stop a moment at my humble dwelling place and give me chance to hear your voice directly. That will be my honor, that which will encourage me, if it is possible with Mr. F. P. It will be a greater honor for us. Befor I ask you to come to see us, we should go to see you first, but just excuse for the reasons as above written.

I shall leave the pen with prare of your sound health, and happiness. God be with you.

From your old servant
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INDEX

Adelaide, [132], [146]
Adler, [90]
Africa, [391]
Alaska, [5], [317]
Albatross, [129] et seq.
America: [10], [22], [100];
pioneer, problems of, [312], [314];
insular possessions of, [316] et seq.;
adventures of, in Pacific, [317] et seq.;
diplomacy of, in China, [326];
Japan in, [342] et seq.;
Japanese immigration to, [345];
attitude of, toward Eastern affairs, [371] et seq.
Ameridians, [6], [23], [25], [119]
Andrews, C. F., cited on self-determination, [228]
Andrews, Roy Chapman, quoted, [22]
Anglo-Japanese Alliance, [355], [357], [359-360], [363], [367], [381]
Antarctic, [10]
Anthropologists, [24]
Antipodes: [9], [26], [76];
legislation in, [285] et seq.
Apia: [87], [88], [100], [101], [105], [207];
a party in, [240] et seq.
Arafua Sea, [139], [157]
Aryans, [20]
"Asahi Shimbun," quoted on American diplomacy, [326]
Asia: relation of, to human existence, [6] et seq., [14], [18], [22];
culture of, [23];
Britain's rock in, [168-178]
Atlantic, [141]
Atua, [76]
Auckland: [13], [110], [114];
market, [272];
Art Gallery, [118]
"Auckland Daily News," [351]
Aurora, Shackleton's ship, [128]
Australasia: political problems affecting, [281-296];
intermarriage in, [355] et seq.
Australasians: games of, [355] et seq.
Australia: [5], [6], [9], [14], [22], [53];
population of, [150], [158];
and the labor problem, [289] et seq.;
and immigration, [292];
and labor legislation, [293], [294];
attitude of, toward independence, [353];
and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, [347-363]
Australian Immigration Law, [295]
Australoids, [21]
Ava: [93], [94];
making of, [69], [70]
Balboa: discovery of the Pacific by, [3] et seq.;
quoted, [3], [10]
Balkans, [391]
Bancroft, quoted, [212]
Banda Sea, [139]
Bagg, Mr., [145]
Ban, [230]
Bass Straits, [131]
Beach-combers, [89]
Belgium, [317]
Best, Mr. Elsdon, [235]
Birds of New Zealand, [124], [125]
Bishop, Mrs. Bernice, [235]
Black-birding, [68]
Bland, J. O. P., [344]
Bluff, [129]
Boas, Franz, quoted, [24]
Boer War, [354]
Bondy, [132]
Bonin Islands, [357]
Botany Bay, [6], [132]
Boxer Indemnity Fund, [323], [328], [389]
Boxer Uprising, [308], [365]
Brisbane, [136], [152]
Britain, outpost of, in Asia, [168-178].
See also England, Great Britain
British Club, [96]
Brown, Dr. McMillan, [25]
Bryce, Viscount, quoted on Pacific Islands group, [387]
Buddha, [8]
"Bulletin," Honolulu, [38]
Bushido, [305], [309]
Calhoun, [326]
California, [40], [103], [104], [343], [345]
Cannibalism, [27], [28], [216]
Canoes, [25]
Canton, [4]
Cape Horn, [5]
Cape Liptrap, [131]
Caroline Islands, [125]
Caucasia, [17], [28]
Celebes Sea, [139]
Chamberlain, Professor Basil Hall, quoted on Shintoism, [304], [305]
Chaplin, Charlie, [43]
Chapman, John, [312]
Chatham Islands, [26]
Chidley, [149]
Chicago, [184]
China: Great Wall of, [4];
effect of famine in, [27], [39], [129];
licentiousness in, [176], [177];
coolieism in, [177];
waking of, [189];
standards of, [189], [190];
and the Twenty-one Demands, [306];
American trade with, [308];
bureaucracy and, [324] et seq.;
development of, [365];
consortium for financing, [364] et seq., [373];
need of constructive work in, [377];
latest loan to, [377]
China Sea, [139], [141]
Chinese: [30], [132], [133];
gambling, [141];
music, [176];
superstition of, [186]
Chosen People, [21]
Christchurch, New Zealand, [109], [143]
Civil War, [120]
Coan, Dr. Titus Munson, cited, [215], [216]
Cocoa plantations, [105]
Compasses, [25]
Confucius, [6]
Consortium: Agreement, [370];
function of the, [381], [382], [383]
Consumption, [120]
Cook, Captain James, [5], [7], [18], [28], [216], [261]
Coolieism, [177], [212], [343]
Copra, [53], [56], [57]
Coral reefs, [37]
Cradle of Mankind, [21]
Culture, [27]
Customs, [23]
Dante, [89]
Darwin: quoted on South Pacific, [22], [24], [28]
Davuilevu, [61], [62]
Deakin, Mr. Alfred, [349]
Dengue fever, [110]
Desolation Gully, [112]
Dewey, Professor: cited on Japanese birth rate, [343]
Divorce, [254] et seq.
Draft Act: in relation to the Maories, [123]
Drake, Sir Francis, [4], [7], [9]
Dunedin, New Zealand, [109], [112], [113], [127]
Dutch, [4], [10]
East and West News Bureau: statement of on alien labor in Japan, [332], [385]
Easter Islands, [25]
Eastern, the, [132], [133], [136]
Eden, [17], [23]
Elephantiasis, [94], [95]
Ellis, Havelock, quoted, [283]
Emerson, [108]
England, [19], [20], [22], [24].
See also Great Britain
English, [19], [20]
English Corporal Correction League, [135]
Episcopal See of Australia, [138]
Equator: astride the, [128-142]
Europe, [17], [20], [22]
Europeans: [18];
effect of famine on, [27], [52]
"Evening Post," Wellington, New Zealand, quoted, [358], [359]
Extinction: danger of, of primitive races, [205] et seq.
Famine: effect of upon civilized nations, [27]
Fan-tan, [141]
Fiji: [11], [12], [13], [18], [21], [32];
relation of, to the Pacific, [52] et seq., [81], [105], [356]
"Fiji Times," Manager of, quoted, [58]
Fijians: [14];
characteristics of, [19], [20], [21];
study of, [52-78];
personal appearance of, [59], [60];
characteristics of, [64] et seq.;
dances of, [67];
women, [70] et seq.;
tastes of, [71] et seq.;
music and dances of, [71], [72];
schools for, [76], [84], [85], [86];
jail of the, [73];
submersion of, [223] et seq.
Filipinos: habits and customs of, [162] et seq.
Fire-walkers of Mbenga, [13]
Food, [27]
Formosa, [298]
Four-River Group, [372]
France, [100]
Frenchmen, [20]
Fujiyama, [35], [193]
German New Guinea, [156]
German Plantation Company, [89]
Germans: in Samoa, [88], [89], [90]
Germany, [24], [100], [389], [391]
Golden Gate, [7]
Governor of Samoa, [101]
Great Barrier Island, [13]
Great Barrier Reef, [136], [137]
Great Britain: attitude of, toward Pacific possessions, [283] et seq., [360], [361];
attitude of toward her colonies, [362]
Great Wall of China, [4]
Gregory, Professor, [384]
Haleakala, [48]
Halemaumau, [51]
Hauraki Gulf, [13]
Hawaii: music of, [8], [9], [16], [17], [23], [32];
aspirations of, [42];
birth-rate, [43];
assimilation in, [43];
foot-binding in, [44];
kinship, [44];
racial evanescence, [44];
dances of, [72], [105];
divorce in, [255] et seq.;
census of, [261], [317], [356]
Hawaiians: [14], [20], [30];
racial purity percentage of the, [213] et seq.
"Hawaiki," by Percy Smith, cited, [26]
Hearn, Lafcadio: cited on fruit of intermarriage, [263]
Heasley, Inspector, [97]
Heinie's, [39]
Heliolithic man, [18]
"Hibbert Journal," quoted on Fijian mind, [232-234]
Hilo, [48]
Hindus, [78]
Himalaya Mountains, [22]
Hong-Kong: [109], [141], [167], [169] et seq.;
slums of, [171];
poverty in, [172];
surgery in, [176];
birth-rate in, [176];
music in, [176]
Honolulu: [7], [9];
our frontier in the Pacific, [30-51];
the spirit, [37] et seq., [235].
See also Hawaii
Huang-Hsu, [365]
Hughes, Premier William Morris: attitude of, toward conscription, [288], [355], [359], [360]
Hukuan Railway, [378]
Imperial Conferences, [347] et seq.
Imperial Diet, [384]
India, [17], [18], [21], [63], [117]
Indians, [77]
Infanticide, [216]
Inouye, Count: quoted on Japanese merchants in Korea, [309]
"Invention of a New Religion," by Basil Hall Chamberlain, quoted, [304], [305]
Ishii-Lansing Agreement, [370], [371]
Izanagi, [21]
Izanami, [21]
Japan: [4], [5], [7], [9];
awakening of, [28], [29], [132], [135], [282];
in relation to the Pacific problem, [297] et seq.;
foreign policies of, [299] et seq.;
race-pride of, [302];
government of, [303];
Democracy in, [305];
attitude of, toward commercialization, [306];
American trade with, [308];
in Siberia, [308];
Buddhism in, [324];
relations of, [326] et seq.;
and alien labor, [331];
foreign population statistics of, [334];
naturalization in, [337] et seq.;
science in, [341] et seq.;
in America, [342] et seq.;
birth-rate, [343];
attitude of, toward financiering China, [373], [374];
attitude of the Orient toward, [376];
and the Pacific problem, [379];
and Manchurian railways, [380]
"Japan Chronicle," quoted in British educational work in Hong-Kong, [177];
quoted on English policy, [362]
"Japan: Real and Imaginary," by Sydney Greenbie, [297]
Japanese: [21], [25], [30], [31];
races, [72], [94].
See also Japan
Java, [4], [22]
Joan of Arc, [51]
Junnosuke Inouye, [375]
Kaiser, the, [104]
Kamehamea, [36], [50], [215]
Kaneohe, [35], [36], [51]
Kapiolani, [51]
Katori-maru, [192]
Keats, quoted, [3]
Kellerman, Annette, [148]
Kiao-chau, [368]
Kilauea, [8], [50]
Kinglake, [24]
Kinship of Pacific peoples, [20] et seq.
Kipling, [116]
Knox, Secretary, [366]
Kobe: business situation in, [335]
Korea: [4], [298];
Japan's actions in, [309];
the case of, [317], [324], [391]
Kyoto, [7]
Labor: conditions in New Zealand, [6];
in Fiji, [13] et seq.;
legislation in New Zealand, [116];
indentured, [222]
Lake Rotorua, [122]
Lali, [71], [73], [78]
Lamont, Mr. Thomas W.:

[364];
negotiations with Japan by, [375];
mission of, to China, [376], [377];
statement of, [379], [380]
Language, [22], [23]
Lansing, Mr.: [370];
attitude of, toward loans to China, [372]
Lao-Tsze, [269]
Laupepa, [395]
League of Nations, [358]
Legend: and the Pacific, [24] et seq.
"Lending Money to China," by Sydney Greenbie, [371]
Leper Island, Molokai, [8]
Levuka, [75], [85]
Lindsay, Vachell, [312]
Little Barrier Island, [13]
Logan, Colonel Robert: [101], [104];
letter of, [395]
London, Charmian, [38]
London, Jack, [10]
Longford, Professor, "The Story of Korea," quoted, [309]
Los Angeles, [30]
Lost Tribes of Israel, [23]
Lurline, [7], [9]
Luzon, [158]
Mackaye, Arthur, [36] et seq.
Magellan, [4], [9], [18]
Magneta Island, [137]
"Main Street," [313]
Malays, [308]
Manchuria, [344], [373]
Mangoes, [105]
Manila: [32], [141], [158] et seq.;
description of, [163] et seq., [271]
Manoa Valley, [33], [34], [37]
Manono, [87]
Maories: [20], [23], [26];
dances of the, [72], [110], [118] et seq.;
vital statistics of, [123];
racial discrimination against, [250]
Maoriland, [17]
Marital contracts, [240-253]
Markets, [265-278]
Marquesas, [5], [26], [52]
Marshall Islands, [319], [357]
Martin, Alonso, [4]
Mason, Mr. Gregory, [368]
Mataafa, [396];
letter, [395], [396]
Mbenga: mystic fire-walkers of, [13]
McDuffie, Mr., [217], [218]
Melanesia, [18], [19], [23], [26], [27]
Melanesian-Fijians, [20], [21]
Melba, Madame, [145]
Melbourne, [129], [143], [144], [349]
Melville, [10], [24]
Message, Mr., quoted, [61]
Micronesia, [23], [26], [27]
Migrations, [20]
"Millard's Review," [368]
Mindanao, [140], [158]
Mindoro, [158]
Missionaries: [19];
Fijian, [65] et seq., [68], [69], [73], [121], [231], [236]
Moa, [28]
Moji, [191]
Molokai, the leper island, [8]
Molucca Sea, [139]
Mongolia, [373]
Monroe Doctrine, [316]
Monroe Doctrine of Asia, [297] et seq., [320]
Monterey, [103]
Montessori Method: in Fiji, [67]
Mormon missionaries, [23]
"Morning Herald," Sydney, quoted on America's War policy, [350], [351]
Morocco, [390]
Mt. Eden, [110]
Mount Vaea, [103]
Mua Peak, [87]
Mulinuu, [91]
Mummy-apples, [20], [59]
Nagasaki, [376]
Napier, New Zealand, [276]
Napoleon: [20];
in relation to Fijian legend, [21]
Negros, [158]
New South Wales, [146]
New York, [111], [113], [184], [270], [364]
"New York Times," on Japanese, [311]
New Zealand: labor conditions in, [6], [13], [14], [17], [20], [23], [26], [72], [84], [105];
study of, [108-127];
home life in, [111];
the bush of, [111];
farmers, [112] et seq.;
newspapers, [113];
population, [113];
characteristics, [114], [115];
girls, [115];
progressiveness, [116];
development, [117] et seq.;
Parliament, in relation to the Draft Act, [123], [133], [145];
and the class system, [286] et seq.;
policy toward England, [353]
Niagara, the, [9], [10], [11], [16], [53], [62], [79], [86], [111]
Nichi Nichi Shummun, [309, note]
Nicholas of Russia, [361]
Night-blooming cereus, [33]
Niuafoou, [12], [13]
North Island, [112]
Oahu: [40];
College, [63]
O'Brien, Frederick, [10], [24]
One hundred and eightieth meridian, [11], [13], [195]
Open Door, [367], [369], [371]
Origins of races, [22]
"Osaka Asahi," [360]
"Outlines of History," Wells, [29]
Pacific: discovery of, [3] et seq.;
significance of, [7];
effect of the mid-, on time, [11];
kinship of Pacific peoples, [20] et seq.;
Darwin quoted on South, [22];
origin of, cultures, [23];
Griffith Taylor quoted on size of, [24];
counter-invasion of, [28] et seq.;
our frontier in the, [30] et seq.;
relation of Fiji to the, [52];
outposts of the white man in the far, [143] et seq.;
our peg in the far, [158-167];
ideals that dwell around the, [199-201];
Hindu problems and the, [225];
political problems of the, [281] et seq.;
adventures of America in the, [317] et seq.;
causes of confusion obtaining in the, [386], [387]
Pago Pago, [10], [82], [317]
Paleolithic life, [16]
Pali, the, [35], [37], [50]
Panama Canal, [315]
Panama-Pacific Exposition, [79]
Panay, [158]
Pan-Pacific Union, [236]
Papuans, [53]
Pasig River, [161]
"Paul and Virginia," [137]
Pavlova, [46]
Peace Conference, [357], [358], [371]
Peace Treaty, [358]
Persia, [390]
Pescadores, [357]
Pharaohs, [25]
Philippines: [6], [32], [140], [317];
problem of the, [318] et seq.;
and independence, [328]
Pilgrims, [17]
Pleistonic period, [20]
Polyandry, [220]
Polynesia: [17], [18], [23], [27];
present status of, [29]
Polynesians: [19];
origin of the, [20], [23], [24], [25], [28], [52];
dances of the, [72], [88], [206];
character of the ancient, [215];
and the problem of intermarriage, [237] et seq.
Population: limitation of, [27], [28];
decline of, [30] et seq.
Port Chalmers, [129]
Port Williamson, [132]
Portuguese, [4], [30]
Poverty Bay, [28]
Prisoners: Fiji, [73], [74]
Promotion Committee: of Honolulu, [34];
"Primer" of the, [41]
Queensland, [138], [146]
Race-blending, [28] et seq.
Rangatora, [120], [121]
Rarotanga, [93]
Ratu Joni, [230]
Reading, Lord: on loans, [372]
Reinsch, Dr. Paul S., [326], [327]
Rewa River, Fiji, [18], [19], [60], [62], [67]
Rickshaws, [171], [178]
Rockefeller Foundation, [173], [174], [324]
Rolland, [108]
Roosevelt, Colonel, and Korea, [318]
Root-Takahira Agreement, quoted, [369], [370]
Rua, Maori priest, [127]
Russia, [308], [391]
Russo-Japanese War, [317], [348], [365]
Ryecroft, Reverend Mr., [65] et seq., [68]
Salvation Army, [44], [45], [179]
Samoa: [10], [11], [13], [19];
cosmogony, [21], [23], [26], [52], [84], [238], [317], [356]
Samoans: [14];
dances of the, [72];
study of the, [79] et seq.;
songs of the, [80];
dances of the, [83];
hospitality of the, [93] et seq., [208]
Samurai, [305]
San Francisco, [7], [10], [184]
Santa Anna Valley, [137]
Savii, [26], [87]
Scientific, [236]
Scientists, [231]
Seattle, [193]
Sedan chairs, [171]
Shackleton, Sir E., [128]
Shanghai: China's European capital, [179-191];
description of, [192] et seq.;
slums of, [185];
the Chinese city, [185] et seq.;
market, [274]
Shantung: [297];
rape of, [324]
Shaw, [108]
Shibusawa, [375]
Shimonoseki, [376]
Shintoism: [299];
defined, [304], [305]
Shurman, Dr. Jacob Gould, [327]
Siberia, [344]
Siberian Railway, [361]
Sikhs, [231]
Sino-Japanese Military Agreement, [380]
Sino-Japanese War, [365]
Slums: tropical, [165];
Hong-Kong, [171]
Smith, Percy, cited, [26]
Smythe, Miss: [179];
work of, [180-182]
Solomon Islands, [65]
"Son of the Middle Border," [313]
South Manchurian Railway, [375], [380]
South Pole, [128]
South Seas: [5] et seq., [10], [12] et seq., [14], [30] et seq.;
style, [32], [57], [74], [80], [82]
Spanish, [10]
Sponges, [37]
St. Helena, [20]
Stevenson, R. L.: [10], [88], [100];
pilgrimage to tomb of, [100-105];
home of, [103], [387], [395]
Stevenson Fellowship, [395]
Stewart, Mr. W. Downie: quoted on status of New Zealand, [359]
Stone Age, [89]
Street, Julian, [375]
Sulu Sea, [139]
Sulus, [65]
Sun Yat-sen, Dr., [325];
quoted, [326]
Superstition, [25]
Suva, Fiji, [11], [13], [20], [55], [56], [57], [58], [61], [73], [75], [76], [84], [105]
Sydney, [9], [12], [132], [139], [146] et seq.
Tagalog, [165]
Tagore: [116];
experiences of in Japan, [311]
Tahiti, [17], [26], [28], [52]
Talume, [12]
Tamasese, [395]
Tamba Maru, [179]
Tasman, [9], [10]
Tasman Sea, [128]
Tasmania, [132]
Tattooings of Time, [17]
Taylor, Griffith: quoted on size of Pacific, [24]
Te Noroto, [124]
Terauchi, Count, [368]
Thomson, Basil, cited, [13]
Thursday Island, [155]
"Times," China: quoted on foreign control of industries, [378]
Thoreau, [95]
Tokyo, [349]
Tolstoy, [269]
Tongans, [19], [77]
Torres Straits, [139]
Townsville, [137]
Traders: in the Far East, [55], [89], [236], [306]
Tradition, [22]
Tulane, [13]
Turks, [20]
Tusitala, the tale teller (Stevenson), [103], [395]
Typee, [5]
Typhoons, [141]
Uchida, Viscount: quoted on Consortium, [379], [384]
Union Steamship Company, [129]
Upolu, [87]
Vailima, Stevenson's home, [88], [100], [101], [103]
Vancouver, George, [5], [7], [18]
Venice of the Pacific, [25]
Vice: among the primitive races, [217]
Victoria, [146]
Vikings, [25]
Virginia, [151]
Vladivostok, [308]
Waikato, [124]
Waikiki, [39]
Waitemata Harbor, [13]
Ward, Sir Joseph, [349],

[351]
Waterhouse, Mr., [69]
Waterspouts, [140]
Webb, Mr., [245]
Wellington: [97], [109], [113];
Museum, [235]
Wellington, Duke of: cited on Britain's colonies, [283]
Wells, H. G., [29]
"When the Sleeper Wakes," Wells, [29]
White Australia policy, [291], [292], [294], [348], [350]
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