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Excerpt from Report on the Agricultural Resources and Capabilities of Hawaii In the past these islands were isolated from the centers of civiliza tion, but in recent years, with the development of commerce between the Occident and the Orient, they have become directly in the line of travel and form a halfway house or coaling point for steamers, bound from San Francisco or Vancouver to Australia, and from the same ports to China and Japan, and from the Isthmus of Panama to the same countries. Since the purchase of the Philippine Islands by this country they have become also the resting as well as the coaling station between these islands and the United States. The smaller islands are mere rocks and reefs and are known only for their guano deposits, their shark fishing grounds, and for their sad tales of shipwreck. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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