Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . TURTLE RACE, NEAR ROCKHAMPTON, AUSTRALIA AREAS OF COUNTRIES ON THE PACIFIC 307 AREAS OF COUNTRIES ON THEPACIFIC Sq. Miles Australia 2,974,581 Alaska 577,390 British New Guinea 90,540 China 1,532,420 (Including Dependencies) 3,913,560 Chile , 292,581 Canada 3,603,910 Dutch New Guinea 151,787 Ecuador 116,000 German New Guinea 70,000 Japan (Including Korea and Depend-encies) 260,738 Mexico 767,000 New Zealand 103,581 Paraguay 65,000 Peru 727,461 United States 2,
Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . TURTLE RACE, NEAR ROCKHAMPTON, AUSTRALIA AREAS OF COUNTRIES ON THE PACIFIC 307 AREAS OF COUNTRIES ON THEPACIFIC Sq. Miles Australia 2,974,581 Alaska 577,390 British New Guinea 90,540 China 1,532,420 (Including Dependencies) 3,913,560 Chile , 292,581 Canada 3,603,910 Dutch New Guinea 151,787 Ecuador 116,000 German New Guinea 70,000 Japan (Including Korea and Depend-encies) 260,738 Mexico 767,000 New Zealand 103,581 Paraguay 65,000 Peru 727,461 United States 2, Venezuela 398,594 STRANGE BURIALS RETURNING from my trip to Alaska in August,1916, I saw on the shores of Bella Bella, betweenPrince Charlotte and Milbank Sounds, little tomb-stones in Indian burial grounds. Inside these grounds weresmall wooden cottages. These consisted of one room fur-nished with the effects taken from the room wherein the Indianhad passed away. While the burial customs of the Siwash Indians of BritishColumbia may impress a traveler, the rites of the Parsees inBombay are most extraordinary. These people
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