PACIFIC ISLANDS UNDER JAPANESE MANDATE 



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THE MERCHANT MARINE AND NAVY 0E MOEN ISLAND ON REVIEW IN TRUK LAGOON : 



CAROLINE ISLANDS 



About forty of the little islands of Truk are scattered about in this big lagoon, which could 

 accommodate our largest transatlantic liners. 



tropical suns had not browned her to the 

 colors of the other natives. Tattoo-marks 

 on the backs of her hands ran across the 

 wrists and disappeared in the loose sleeves 

 of the immaculately clean wrapper. Other 

 designs showed on feet and ankles. 



"I'm Mrs. Kubary," she said. This, 

 then, was the relict of that striking 

 character on whose studies much of the 

 scientific knowledge and romantic lore of 

 the Carolines is based, who came to 

 Ponape when a youth of 19, full of en- 

 thusiasm and vigor, won a name for him- 

 self which reached to Europe, and 

 wrested a wealth of coconut groves from 

 the jungle, only to be conquered in the 



end, when age weakened strength and 

 courage. 



The day the fight relaxes, the jungle, 

 always waiting, starts to reclaim its own. 

 A monument in the little cemetery, with 

 a bronze slab sent by his scientific col- 

 leagues in Europe, showing the profile of 

 a strong face, with drooping moustache 

 and eye-glasses, and the legend, "Johann 

 Stanislaus Kubary, 1846- 1896," epito- 

 mizes his hopeless life story. 



The jungle has choked the botanical 

 garden which Kubary started and closed 

 the paths across the mountains which the 

 warrior trod in the days when Ponape 

 had a population of 60,000 instead of 



