. Sandwich island notes. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,82 BEBKMAN STREET. 1854. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by HARPER & BROTHERS,In the Clerks Office for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE, It is with feelings of much diffidence I submit thefollowing pages to a perusal by the public, but it iswith the hope that the object at which they aim willbe speedily accomplished. Several pamphlets and vol-umes have already been issued from the press, concern-ing that most important of all the groups that stud thevast Pacific—the Sandwich Islands. But these f
. Sandwich island notes. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,82 BEBKMAN STREET. 1854. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by HARPER & BROTHERS,In the Clerks Office for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE, It is with feelings of much diffidence I submit thefollowing pages to a perusal by the public, but it iswith the hope that the object at which they aim willbe speedily accomplished. Several pamphlets and vol-umes have already been issued from the press, concern-ing that most important of all the groups that stud thevast Pacific—the Sandwich Islands. But these factshave not deterred me from making my own observa-tions, and employing my own language. If the present condition of affairs at the HawaiianIslands augur any thing, there can not but be a goodprospect that they will soon form an integral portion ofthe United States. They are absolutely essential to theprotection and advancement of American commerce,and whoever owns them will be master of the Pacific. I have en
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