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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Dr. Edward Burton Mac Dowel 



ENTRANCE TO PAGO PAGO HARBOR, U. S. NAVAL BASE IN THE SAMOAN ISLANDS 



This harbor on the island of Tutuila occupies the crater of an extinct volcano and is one- 

 and-a-half miles in length and three-quarters of a mile wide. The entrance from the sea is a 

 very narrow channel. 



Ocean is a call at an out-of-the-way coral 

 atoll, a circular strip of white sand and 

 coral about a quarter of a mile wide and 

 ten feet high, surrounding a lagoon of 

 quiet water. When first sighted, it ap- 

 pears as a long, dark fringe on the sky- 

 line, but as we draw nearer this fringe 

 grows larger and higher, until it resolves 

 into a grove of coconut trees apparently 

 growing up out of the sea. 



Making for the opening into the lagoon, 

 we are accompanied by a continuous pro- 



cession of huge waves, with smoking 

 crests, marching upon the shore, and we 

 hear the ceaseless roar of the surf as it 

 pounds upon the fringing reef. 



A PICTURE OE PEACID ElFE ON PENRHYN 

 ISLAND 



We find the native living in his thatched 

 hut, nestling beneath the dreamy fronds 

 of the coconut palms as they murmur 

 ceaselessly in the warm caress of the 

 tropic trade wind. 



