The Pacific Triangle

by Sydney Greenbie

CONTENTS

[BOOK ONE]
HISTORICAL AND TRAVEL MATERIAL
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Heart of the Pacific	[3]
II	The Mystery of Mysteries	[15]
III	Our Frontier in the Pacific	[30]
IV	The Sublimated, Savage Fijians	[52]
V	The Sentimental Samoans	[79]
VI	The Aphelion of Britain	[108]
VII	Astride the Equator	[128]
VIII	The Australian Outlands	[143]
IX	Our Peg in Asia	[158]
X	Britain's Rock in Asia	[168]
XI	China's European Capital	[179]
XII	World Consciousness	[192]
[BOOK TWO]
DISCUSSION OF NATIVE PROBLEMS—PERSONAL AND SOCIAL
XIII	Exit the Noble Savage	[205]
XIV	Give Us Our Vu Gods Again!	[222]
XV	His Tattooed Wife	[237]
XVI	Giving Hearts a New Chance	[254]
XVII	"This Little Pig Went to Market"	[265]
[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]

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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]

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