The American-Spanish war; . pilots hadhad through several generations, and their intimate acquaint-ance with these tortuous channels ; and when finally we re-cognize the approved bravery of Spanish gentlemen, we standbewildered before the entire failure of these men to harass usseriously and cause us heavy loss in our attempts to blockade THE BLOCKADE OF CUBA. 237 their coasts. Knowing them as gallant men we discern intheir conduct a strange and fatal apathy. To inquire whencethis came,—-what causes may be found for it in the history ofSpain,—arc questions we need not here pursue. It is a diff
The American-Spanish war; . pilots hadhad through several generations, and their intimate acquaint-ance with these tortuous channels ; and when finally we re-cognize the approved bravery of Spanish gentlemen, we standbewildered before the entire failure of these men to harass usseriously and cause us heavy loss in our attempts to blockade THE BLOCKADE OF CUBA. 237 their coasts. Knowing them as gallant men we discern intheir conduct a strange and fatal apathy. To inquire whencethis came,—-what causes may be found for it in the history ofSpain,—arc questions we need not here pursue. It is a diffi-cult problem and he who attempts to solve it by instancing thecorruption of government, the form of religious worship, orany other special and definite circumstance, must be care-ful that he does not confuse cause and effect ; for he may dis-cover at the end of his reasonings that all the defects he enu-merates have themselves a common cause in some inherentnational malady, whose nature and origin are unknown to CHAPTER ANNEXATION OF HAWAII. BY Hon. SHELBY M. CULLOM, Chairman of Senate Committee on Hawaiian Annexation. TRADITION indicates that during the twelfth andthirteenth centuries there was more or less intercoursebetween the various groups of the islands of were made between the Hawaiian Islands and theSamoan and Society groups. About that time the HarveyIslands and New Zealand were colonized. The fact that theHawaiians, New Zealanders, the inhabitants of the EasterIslands and others in the south and east, have a distinctphysical resemblance, as well as similar moral peculiarities,would tend to bear out the tradition that the Polynesianraces sprang from the East Indian countries, and probablytrace a relationship back to the Hindoostanees of the thirdand fourth centuries. It is claimed that many of the modernPolynesians speak dialects of the same language, have similartraditions and general rites. In many instances they havethe same co
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