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 . Alaskan Game 267 The Reindeer Industry 271 The Norths Great Sporting Event 273 Alaska—A $7,000,000 Purchase 278 Alaska Fishing 279 Ship Subsidies 280 Random Notes 283 On Personal Conduct at Sea 283 Native Peculiarities 284 Sea Scapes 285 Medical Pointers - 285 Beverages 286 When Entering a Port 286 On Communication 286 Pacific Island Homes 287 Alcohol Aboard 287 What Is a Beachcomber ? 288 How Far You Can See 289 Reminders 289 Blackbirding 290 Island Races 295 Smug
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 . Alaskan Game 267 The Reindeer Industry 271 The Norths Great Sporting Event 273 Alaska—A $7,000,000 Purchase 278 Alaska Fishing 279 Ship Subsidies 280 Random Notes 283 On Personal Conduct at Sea 283 Native Peculiarities 284 Sea Scapes 285 Medical Pointers - 285 Beverages 286 When Entering a Port 286 On Communication 286 Pacific Island Homes 287 Alcohol Aboard 287 What Is a Beachcomber ? 288 How Far You Can See 289 Reminders 289 Blackbirding 290 Island Races 295 Smuggling 296 Stewards 299 Sweeps at Sea 301 The Dawson Ice Pool 305 X CONTENTS PAGE Ocean Currents 306 Areas of Countries on the Pacific 307 Strange Burials 308 Cruise of the Shenandoah—Rebel Privateer 311 A $6,250,000 Dinner 313 Welcome to the American Fleet 314 My Voyage in 1918 317 Pacific Trips 319 The Pelew and Caroline Islands (Late German Posses-sions, Now Occupied by Japan) 321 The Marshall Islands 327 Australia 332 Papua (British New Guinea) 338 German New Guinea 342 The Story of Bully Hayes 347 Maps 351 Indej( 361. INTRODUCTION A GOOD many years ago—more than I like to confess—it dawned on me that I was getting too old for thedeck sports that enHven a long sea-voyage; so I de-cided on a new sport for myself: to pass the time in settingdown impressions of ocean travel, the places I visited, and theinteresting side-lights on life that came to my attention. Thefirst result was a series of letters to friends, the second, anumber of newspaper interviews, and finally the presentvolume. My original intention was to confine myself to personal ex-periences, but the more I studied the conditions of the Pacific,its marvelous panorama of countries and peoples, the morefascinated I became with my subject, and it grew far beyondmy initial purpose; I felt compelled to take in a wider range,to include general information and jottings that covered aperiod of more than forty years
Size: 1342px × 1862px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectoceania, bookyear1920
