Show MARSHALL ISLANDS NEW JAPANESE TERRITORY 0 the mosli ail il islands one ot of the pacific archipelagoes formerly owned by go Gei many ninny and over japan japa long bocen ghen eh en a mandate by the league of 0 nations ally form a barrier between the Ila hawaiian wallan wands islands oaple enllie and guam and the lie philippines to the lie nest est the two hains chains of 0 curiously shaped atolls or coral islands consisting of low lying coral reefs beefs encircling lagoons a knain us as the ila group lie ile a little south of 0 the center of an imaginary line connecting 16 hawaii vall guam find and tile philippines guam samoa and honolulu form a routes with its sides not lot penetrated by lines within this isola isolated pacific Jaci fic triangle ale aie hie file marshall islands the lie viar air sidnay was aas readied reached iv by st enwer a ovnie ot of more than am iii miars llo q the only other oilier inet hoil of wits a steamer to ionato with a line to to singapore like tn loosely sprung chains of jewels the stretch cli from north wrt wr t too in southeast eadi villi it its in a piou ehlig riichi rd 1 iy ay v a sh angely ely shaird i ailet of eoral sumo like tri all acislo haies und ail larrup i i and one a bull i head tah its bolus tri lalit haired clark ati k broin natives nati avei till still bof pluming qs lite alir relio sh 0 nial valice of 0 tattoo and taboo are t to 0 be found ignee nc a sturdy reliant roli Ant sea farin faring people ln ople for they acie the boast best mallner j 11 in tile pacific Inci fic all alio w bilte binin camins as in ili the lie case ot of his I 1 advent adient dinong the ellmo find and tin the indian tit did not seem bolly liol jy beneficial cial in leahing them thein ways to live more easily robbed ro bleil them of that bold boldness nes and adventure which made thern the har handiest hardiest diest ot of the peoples many of the young died ot of tubel rill boqi 3 i skillful rill and fearless navigators the ii bread tree wood to maie salling sall iii canoes in they would dynge for mont li they devised chart made of sticks showing the locations of islands and the directions of prevailing aines ancestor worship vins nas their predominant religious sentiment with ith petitions and gifts they worshiped the departed whose spirits supposed to retain to earth in certain palm paint trees liichi lii cli they set off in stone enclosures birds and I sometimes embodied these spirits they believed and thus certain species became taboo tobo tabo bo homes of the natives were riot not pretentious tent ious floors were raised above the alie ground to escape the rats and that clied roofs covered the combination house find and storage room the two tuo island groups are known as the batak and chains their entire area is not dot inore than square miles their native population before the war was mas with fewer femer than foreigners the seat of german government was on kalnit and the most populous island Is majeru SIa Ia jeru will but 1600 persons other explorers had touched at the tb islands but they with the gliber gilbert group tool took their names from captains marshall and gilbert who explored them fn an 1788 the germans annexed the alie islands in 1886 |