The Caroline Islands

Christian, F. W. (April 1899). "The Caroline Islands". Scottish Geographical Magazine. 15 (4): 169–178. doi:10.1080/00369229908733043. ISSN 0036-9225.

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Abstract: A good many years ago I took a schoolboy's fancy to visit the islands of thePacific, one of the pardonable ambitions of youth which it is so rarely given to us to realise. I will tell you first howI came to hear of the Carolines, how I got there, howI fared there, and what I did there, and will then goon to describe the geographical situation of the archipelago and something of its history and products. Then I will give you some views representing the beautiful scenery of these islands, and some types of the folk who inhabit them. I will also bring upoh the canvas before you some views of an enchanted region of archaeologyv iews of some massive and wonderful works in stone found in a remote province ofa remote island intheEastern Carolines. This place is known to geographers as Ponape (Pohnpei), the Land of the Holy Places. Lastly, I will show you some scenes from the Yap and the Pelew (Palau) islands, which lie some fourteen hundred miles nearer Manila, on the western edge of this extensive archipelago, which seems bound sooner or later to fall out of the paralysed hands of Spain into the firm grasp of America, or the itching palm of energetic Japan, or into the grip of the Emperor of Germany, whose final answer, to use his own words, to a barbarian enemy is a crushing blow of the mailed fist.

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