---- and Queensland, 132 New Zealand offers to protect Samoa, 144 O Oil, 167 P Pacific Islands, 124, 129, 131, 133 Palm kernels, 117 Palm-oil, 102, 117, 120, 154, 162 Pea-nuts, 106 Penguin eggs, 74 Peters, Dr Carl, 90 Phosphates, 156, 166 Portugal, 36, 93, 109, 124, 126 Prussian militarism, 17 Pulse, 180 Q Queensland and New Guinea, 132 R Rhodes, Cecil, 19, 54 Rhodesia, German efforts, 55 Rubber, 73, 101, 102, 117, 154, 166 Russia in China, 174 S Sago, 161 Samoa, 131, 133, 136, 144, 150, 154 ----, _Calliope_ and hurricane, 142 ----, German annexation, 147 ----, the British occupy, 168 Sandal-wood, 166 Schleswig-Holstein, 18 "Scramble for Africa," 24 Seal skins, 74 Seddon, Hon. R., 148 Silk, 180 Silver, 74 Sisal hemp, 101 South Africa, 34, 53 Stanley, H. M., 87 Stevenson. R. L., 149 St Lucia Bay, 30 Swakopmund, 82 T Tangier, German Emperor's visit to, 29 Tannin, 107 Tasmania, 24 Timber, 107, 115, 121, 167 Tin, 75 Tobacco, 154, 166 Togoland, 66, 109, 112, 114, 117 Tortoise-shell, 166 Transvaal, German aspirations, 30 Treaty, Anglo-German, 94 Treitschke, von, and "Greater Germany," 28 Trepang, 166 U Upington, Sir Thomas, 54 V Van Diemen, 130 Von der Decken, 87 Von Weber, Ernst, 45 Von Wissmann, Captain H., 95 W Walfisch Bay, 41 Warren, Sir Charles, 54 Warren expedition, 54 Wax, 180 ----, bees', 101 Wei-hai-wei, Great Britain's lease, 177 Whales, 74 Wheat, 180 Wireless, Togoland, 118 Wool, 73 "World Power," 29 Z Zanzibar, 85, 90, 94, 96 * * * * * PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE NORTHUMBERLAND PRESS, THORNTON STREET, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE FOOTNOTES: [A] "Modern Germany," by J. Ellis Barker. [B] _Ibid._ [C] "Modern Germany," by J. Ellis Barker. [D] Government Paper C--4265, 1884. [E] _Rooi-Nek_, Red Neck, served to describe Englishmen owing to their exposed necks burning brick-red under South African suns. [F] _Machela._--Hammock slung on a bamboo which is carried on the shoulders of six or eight boys, according to the weight of the traveller; a form of travelling universal in Central and Eastern Africa. [G] Even to-day the business of the Portuguese Colonies on the East Coast of Africa is carried on with Lisbon via Goa. [H] From H. B. M.'s Consular Report, 1910. [I] "In Far New Guinea," by Henry Newton. Seeley Service & Co. Price, 16s. Transcriber's notes: - Different spelling of 'resistance' and 'résistance' results from different usage and languages. - Ligatures '[ae]' converted - as used/possible in Latin texts - to 'ae'. End of Project Gutenberg's Germany's Vanishing Colonies, by Gordon Le Sueur