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Title: 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
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coffee, Frank, d. 1929
Subjects: Oceania -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Oceanic publishing company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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also included inthe American cession. Pago Pago is a completely landlockedharbor, and the stretch of water is so deep and so great inextent that it has thus been described by the former ChiefJustice Chambers: The harbor could hold the entire navalforce of the United States, and is so perfectly arranged thatonly two vessels can enter at a time. The coaling stationbeing enclosed by high mountains, cannot be reached by shells. The native population is about 7,000. The garrison attimes consists of about thirty officers, one hundred enlistedmen and one hundred native Samoan soldiers, whose pictur-esque uniform of red turban, white singlet and blue breech-cloth with red border, is very attractive. Red-haired ladies are very popular at Pago. On Fridaynights the natives fill their hair with lime, which they wash outon Saturday, and which gives it the reddish appearance. Thisis done for sanitary rather than ornamental purposes. Re-cently when a newly arrived red-haired lady awoke one morn- 152
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PAGO PAGO 153 ing and looked out her window, she observed a large numberof native women waiting outside. Upon inquiring the cause,it seemed they wanted the recipe she used for dyeing her hairsuch a beautiful red. As I have mentioned, the lime turnsthe natives hair a reddish brown. So you may know times do not always hang heavily at sea.I may mention that the night before we reached Pago Pago(November 8th) the passengers gave the American naval offi-cers and their wives, who were leaving us at Pago, a farewellbanquet to mark the occasion. Wine was opened freely,speeches made, and a concert arranged. The Hon. W. J.Thynne, of Brisbane, proposed the toast of the evening: TheOfficers of the United States Navy, in a speech that evokedgeneral approval. Dr. E. Parker responded on behalf of theNavy. His speech was frequently cheered. Mrs. (Dr.)Parker responded on behalf of the ladies, in a very eloquentmanner. The naval party expressed keen regret upon leaving,inasmuch as they could not attend

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