. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. Jrwlhrl. :Dt>ddjeKiA^C f^m- TO fttHn. Qramnngh. Pi-ii\Ud h\- Uii- Biblio^mpliisiliis Instilul Leq)£i^ .r™-K«Tt OntldJb^uLtr* Australia andOceania ] HISTORY OF THE WORLD 233 in increased force for New Guinea. This gigantic island, which exceeds in sizethe Japanese and the Britisli island-empires together, is historically unique, notonly in the Pacific but on the whole surface of the earth; Borneo alone showssome points of resemblance. Fitted, from its size and apparently from its naturalwealth as well, to dominate the eutire system of i
. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. Jrwlhrl. :Dt>ddjeKiA^C f^m- TO fttHn. Qramnngh. Pi-ii\Ud h\- Uii- Biblio^mpliisiliis Instilul Leq)£i^ .r™-K«Tt OntldJb^uLtr* Australia andOceania ] HISTORY OF THE WORLD 233 in increased force for New Guinea. This gigantic island, which exceeds in sizethe Japanese and the Britisli island-empires together, is historically unique, notonly in the Pacific but on the whole surface of the earth; Borneo alone showssome points of resemblance. Fitted, from its size and apparently from its naturalwealth as well, to dominate the eutire system of islands in Indonesia and Oceania,New Guinea has the initial disadvantage of lying in the immediate vicinity of theincomparably vaster Australia, and, what is more, of facing the barren part of thatcontinent. While New Zealand, which lies, as one may say, opposite the fa(;adeof Australia, has been involved with it in a most happy development. New Guineahas of all the large islands in the world remained the longest totally most recent encroachments of the modern colonial powers have cal
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