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Title: A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wheeler, William Webb, 1845- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Joseph, Mo., Hardman press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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g through the Inland Sea, andfortunately had a beautiful day for it. The fame of thisInland Sea is world wide, and I do not think it has beenoverdrawn. There are great numbers of islands so closelystudded together that it requires a special pilot to getthrough safely. They are from one to five hundred feethigh, with little valleys between the hills, often a littlevillage and sloping sandy beach, where numbers of fishingboats are drawn up on the pebbly shore. All these islandsare covered with green verdure, and in every available spaceis a little patch of rice or barley. The cultivated places areterraced one above the other, to the tops of the hills.In places where the ships course lay between two highhills, the Japs have located forts and planted canon, so thatthe place would be very uncomfortable for an enemy intime of war. Along the ridges or tops of these highlandsare frequently planted a row of trees close together, whichgives a very artistic appearance to the landscape. There i6i
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are some mannfactnring towns scattered among- these islands;one has many factories with tall chimneys. On another theyhave a dynamite factory with five large buildings and a tallsmoke-stack to each, and many small houses for the storageof the dynamite; one of these factory towns is devoted tosmelting copper. The fishing industry is the mostimportant of all in these parts, and wherever one turns,there are many fishing boats in sight. The varied island views were so beautiful that the dayseemed too short for us, and we regretted to spare thetime, even to take our meals. We arrived at Yokohamaon a bright, sunny Sabbath morning, and a beautiful .sightmet us as we steamed into Yokohama Bay. This bay isalmost a sea in size, and wdien we arrived it was filled withall manner of ships, large and small. Among the lot weretwo of Uncle Sams battleships, the Colorado and the WestVirginia, also one French man-of-war, as well as fourBritish men-of-war, several large passenger steamers, manycargo ste

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