Viii,[2],549 pages, maps, cloth, very good. From the Preface to the Present Edition: "The occupation of the Pacific by the world's foremost civilization will prove the most absorbing problem of the coming centuries. The wealth of the Pacific, for the most part lightly held by inferior peoples, invites the presence of the strong and dominant. The great ocean has waited long for fit occupancy and ownership. This was well that the best results might ensue. Many centuries must elapse before a crude culture planted in aboriginal regions can attain to a front rank; wherefore a transplanted civilization of a higher order were better here, and it should be drawn from the purest sources."

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