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Excerpt from Engineering Notes on Hawaii
Owing to their position, the islands have a commercial and strategic position by no means insignificant, lying as they do in the path of almost every line of steamers crossing the Pacific. Statistics for the year ending June 30th, 1901, show that 662 steamers, war vessels and sailing vessels made the ports of Honolulu and Hilo, over of the number entering the former. The advantage to the United States of ownership of these islands. In connection with the develop ment and control of our new possessions in the far East, is very great, permitting of the maintenance here of a base of supplies and a naval repair yard. 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.
