Identifier: reviewofreviewsw40newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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roup of Islands as a military base was strikingly illustrated dur-ing our war with Spain, and authorities havefrequently declared that Pearl Harbor iscapable of- conversion into the finest navalstation in the world. To the geographicalposition which creates these commercial andstrategical advantages the Territory addssuch superior conditions of climate and soilas to insure its perpetual prosperity, providedpolitical and labor complications do not actas a brake to its progress. In the matter of area the Hawaiian groupis one-sixth larger than Porto Rico, but thepopulation of the latter island is seven timesas great as that of the Territory. At thetime of his discovery of the islands CaptainCook estimated the number of their inhab-itants at 400,000. Since then they have de-creased rapidly, owing to the introduction bythe whites of epidemic diseases, such as small-pox and measles, until in 1875 the popula-tion had fallen below 60,000. Although im-migration produced a reaction, the decline
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MAP OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.(There are a few minor islands, mostly uninhabited.) 306 THE AMERICAN REl^IEW OF REVIEWS. among the natives continued with a grad-ually decreasing rate of progression. To-daythe aboriginal element remains practicallystationary, if allowance is made for the de-tachments occasioned by marriages with for-eign races. ASIATIC ELEMENTS IX THE POPULATION. The first trade relations of Hawaii werewith China, to which country it made largeshipments of sandalwood. Early in the nine-teenth centur\- Chinese began to settle in theislands, and to one of these newcomers is saidto be due the credit of first having manufac-tured sugar from cane grown in Hawaii.The cultivation and reduction of sugar canebecame an industry of importance aboutthe middle of the last century and took theplace of the whale trade, which began to de-cline at that period. It was soon apparentthat dependence could not be had upon nativelabor, and the government entered into atreaty with Japan guarante

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