This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...must clearly not be looked for in that direction, though it leads to the Cape of Good Hope and to Europe. The course of colonization, in fact, has now reached its tropic or turning-point. Australia really faces round from Europe to meet the kindred civilization of America on the one hand, and the trade of the Indian ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...must clearly not be looked for in that direction, though it leads to the Cape of Good Hope and to Europe. The course of colonization, in fact, has now reached its tropic or turning-point. Australia really faces round from Europe to meet the kindred civilization of America on the one hand, and the trade of the Indian Archipelago and China on the other. It is in the direction of America that the colony of New Zealand has been formed; and it seems likely that from America on the one side and from Australia on the other, colonists will go on settling in many of the numberless islands of the Pacific Ocean. An important step in this direction was taken in 1874 by the British Government. Acting on the representations of the Australians, they took possession in that year of the Fiji Islands, more than two hundred in number, where many sugar and cotton planters had already settled. The way for colonization had already been prepared by Christian missionaries, both from America and from Europe; and it is impossible to say how far the movement may have extended in another century, when the wealth and population of America and Australia have become better developed and consolidated. Northward the communication with the Indian Ocean has been begun by the Adelaide telegraph, and this will in time be followed by a railway. Settlements have been made on the northern shore, and the British Government has taken possession of the adjoining parts of the vast island of New Guinea with an area nearly half as great as France and a population of 350,000. This dependency is administered by the commonwealth. Pacific colonization is apparently the next phase of colonial enterprise. The richness of the soil of the countless Indian and Pacific islands, the facilities for government and ...
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