The Pacific: The Least Known Region 547 





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Caroline Islands 



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.-.Phoenix Is. 



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.Santa Cruz Islands 



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SKETCH MAP OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS 



whose influence has to this day tinctured 

 the writings of the historian and novelist 

 of this wonderful region. . 



In still later years the United States 

 government has interested itself actively 

 in various Pacific investigations and has 

 added considerably to the oceanography 

 of the region. 



The whaling industry also carried its 

 toilers into many remote parts of the 

 great ocean and left an indelible impres- 

 sion upon the native population. 



To these legitimate enterprises are to 

 be added the incursion of a host of pirat- 

 ical and predatory exploiters, who have 

 preyed upon commerce, pillaged and kid- 

 napped the native races, and made the 

 white man an object of hatred tnrough- 

 out the regions in which their nefarious 

 work was carried on. 



THE MORE FEROCIOUS ISLANDERS AVOIDED 



In spite of these activities of the white 

 man, whether of good or evil repute, the 



