COO CVove HAWATI. HAWAIIAN N. » FISHERMA 2 considered as in the group, may square miles. have a combined area of six States in Territory of Hawaii, annexed to the United and 220 s in the North Pacific Ocean, between 180 54! ude. Longtit West 13' 1600 and 48' 1540 h Latitude, and lout 2,020 miles S.W. of San Francisco. Cook, the Islands were discovered by Captain James a Japacentury nth thirtee the In 1778. Navigator, in The Islands were first brought under one control by King the eighth Queen Liliuokalani was Kamehameha in 1795. and last Hawaiian to occupy the throne of Hawaii, being deThe monarchy was succeeded by the Republic posed in 1893. to the 's of a wrecked Spanish ship bound from Mexico 1es, landed on southern Hawaii, (legend.) HONOLULU. k touched at Maui, (legend) and about the year 1557 re are eight inhabited islands, the largest being Hawaii, of 4,015 ich the group takes its name, with an area The second is Maui, 728 square miles, and then ailes. 97, thu 598, Kauai 547, Molokai 261, Lanai 139, Niihau square 6,449 of area total a or we 69 square miles, Outlying islands to the northwest, which are properly of Hawaii (1893-1898.) The Islands now form a le al Territory of the United States, annexed in 1898. | Honolulu, the capital and principal city, is situated on the It has a popuisland of Oahu, 2020 miles from San Francisco. lation of about 75,000. All important trans-Pacific steamer lines meet at Honolulu, and most of the large houses doing business in the Islands have headquarters in that city. also the tourist mecca of the Pacific. It is