. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. SANTA-CEUZ.—NEW HEBEIDÉS. 331 discovered thirty-nine years afterwards by Dillon. The fatal rock lies to the west of the island in one of the channels piercing the circuit of fringing reefs. Although now well known to mariners in the South Seas, and frequently visited by labour vessels and missionaries, neither the Santa-Cruz group nor the New Hebrides have jet been annexed by any European power. The former come, no doubt, within the sphere assigned to British influence by the treaty concluded with Grermany ; but the New Hebrides, which also seemed
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. SANTA-CEUZ.—NEW HEBEIDÉS. 331 discovered thirty-nine years afterwards by Dillon. The fatal rock lies to the west of the island in one of the channels piercing the circuit of fringing reefs. Although now well known to mariners in the South Seas, and frequently visited by labour vessels and missionaries, neither the Santa-Cruz group nor the New Hebrides have jet been annexed by any European power. The former come, no doubt, within the sphere assigned to British influence by the treaty concluded with Grermany ; but the New Hebrides, which also seemed destined to become an English possession, have been disputed by France, and some of the islands have even been temporarily occupied by small French garrisons. Protes- Fig. 141.—Vanikoeo. Scale 1 : i66°4o I66°50 Lasb cF Gr-eenvvich Depths. Oto50 Fathoms. 50 Fathoms and upwards. ^^ 6 Miles. tant and Catholic missionaries, inspired by religious rivalries, New Caledonian and Fijian speculators in search of labourers for their plantations, clamoured for the intervention of their respective governments in favour of their particular interests, and for some years the political fate of the archipelago remained in suspense. This uncertain situation has even been indefinitely prolonged by a recent treaty which places the group under joint British and French protection, a state of things which may probably, sooner or later, result in the partition of the archipelago between the two rival powers. Like the other insular chains in the Western Pacific, both archipelagoes are of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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