Forty Years On The Pacific

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

Compiled by

FRANK COFFEE

OCEANIC PUBLISHING COMPANY

44 EAST TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK

GEORGE And BOND STREETS, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

A. M. ROBERTSON

STOCKTON STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Copyright, 1920

By FRANK COFFEE

TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED SON, THE LATE

LIEUTENANT FRANK M. COFFEE

Australian Imperial Forces

Killed In Action At Gallipoli, November 18 1915

He sleeps in the grave of a hero,

Beneath a mound of earth,

Far from the land of the wattle—

The land that gave him birth.

Contents

 * /Introduction/
 * /Navigation On The Pacific/
 * /Voyages Across the Pacific/
 * /A Trip Through Japan/
 * /Honolulu and Hawaii/
 * /Leper Settlement of Molokai/
 * /Bird Life of Hawaii/
 * /Other Islands/
 * /New Caledonia/
 * /New Hebrides/
 * /The British Solomon Islands/
 * /The Gilbert Islands/
 * /Papua or British New Guinea/
 * /Dutch New Guinea/
 * /Tahiti/
 * /Tonga/
 * /Samoa/
 * /Robert Louis Stevenson-The Famous Hurricane/
 * /The Great Samoan Hurricane/
 * /Pago Pago/
 * /Fiji/
 * /New Zealand/
 * /Polynesian Pastimes/
 * /Volcanoes/
 * /Copra, Sugar, and Other Products/
 * /Kava and Toddy/
 * /Missionaries/
 * /Strange But True Fish Stories/
 * /Pacific Cable/
 * /Wireless/
 * /Alaska Telegraph Signal Corps/
 * /Yukon Telegraph Trail/
 * /Submarine Signals/
 * /Oil and Fuel Used at Sea/
 * /Explanation of Difference of Time/
 * /Rule of the Road at Sea/
 * /Classification-Tonnage/
 * /Alaska/
 * /Record Made by Marion Dredge/
 * /Gold Discovered in Yukon Territory/
 * /Seals in Behring Sea/
 * /Alaskan Game/
 * /Ship Subsidies/
 * /Random Notes/
 * /Blackbirding/
 * /Island Races/
 * /Smuggling/
 * /Stewards/
 * /Sweeps at Sea/
 * /The Dawson Ice Pool/
 * /Ocean Currents/
 * /Areas of Countries on the Pacific/
 * /Strange Burials/
 * /Cruise of the Shenandoah-Rebel Privateer/
 * /Welcome to the American Fleet/
 * /My Voyage in 1918/
 * /Pacific Trips/
 * /The Pelew and Caroline Islands/
 * /The Marshall Islands/
 * /Australia/
 * /Papua (British New Guinea)/
 * /German New Guinea/
 * /The Story of "Bully" Hayes/
 * /Maps/
 * /Index/