Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original map. See 40305-h.htm or 40305-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/40305/pg40305-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40305/40305-h.zip) The Pacific is the ocean of the future. As civilisation grows and distances dwindle, man demands a larger and yet larger stage for the fighting-out of the ambitions of races. The Mediterranean sufficed for the settlement of the issues between the Turks and the Christians, between the Romans and the Carthaginians, between the Greeks and the Persians, and who knows what other remote and unrecorded struggles of the older …
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