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Title: The Americans In The South Seas
1901
Author: Louis Becke
Release Date: April 5, 2008 [EBook #24995]
Last Updated: January 8, 2013
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICANS IN THE SOUTH SEAS ***
Produced by David Widger
THE AMERICANS IN THE SOUTH SEAS
From The Tapu Of Banderah and Other Stories
By Louis Becke
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
1901
Perhaps the proper title of this article should be The Influence of American Enterprise upon the Maritime Development of the first Colony in Australia,
but as such a long-winded phrase would convey, at the outset, no clearer conception of the subject-matter than that of The Americans in the South Seas,
we trust our readers will be satisfied with the simpler title.
It is curious, when delving into some of the dry-as-dust early Australian and South Sea official records, or reading the more interesting old newspapers and books of Voyages,
to note how soon the Americans took a hand
in the South Sea trade, and how quickly they practically monopolised the whaling industry in the Pacific, from the Antipodes to Behring Straits.
The English Government which had despatched the famous First Fleet
of convict transports to the then unknown shores of Botany Bay, had not counted upon an American intrusion into the Australian Seas, and when it came, Cousin Jonathan did not receive a warm welcome from the English officials stationed in the newly founded