Excerpt from The Future of the Kanaka
I Feel that I should preface this book with an explanation. It was written in the summer of 1917 far from many sources of reference, and in haste. I believed (rightly or wrongly) that I possessed certain information about the Pacific in general, and the New Hebrides in particular, which though fragmentary it was desirable to leave in a readily accessible form in case misfortune should overtake me in the war. It was clearly undesirable to publish it at the time and, moreover, I hoped to be able to expand and complete it. But since my arrival in England I have been very fully occupied in other ways, and now that the war is over its publication has suddenly become a matter of urgency. So I give it as it is.
I have already given a detailed account of the New Hebrides in a book entitled "France and England in the New Hebrides" - here I discuss more general questions and principles. I think, however, that I ought to state two things very plainly.
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