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IT is a “far cry” to the Sandwich Islands, and equally a “far cry” to the days of Captain Cook with his intrepid crew, pioneers in the exploration of Polynesia. Many changes have taken place since the black day in 1778 when the renowned navigator came to his tragic end on the snowy sand beach of Hawaii. The modern traveller who wanders so far will find the Hawaii of to-day a fully civilised community, the streets of the principal town of which, Honolulu, besides being laid with tramways and electric mains, are so covered with a network of telephone wires as to give the impression of a huge spider's web amid the palm-trees.
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âœWattr Resources of Hawaii, 1909â11.â Prepared under the direction of M. O. Leighton by W. F. Martin and C. H. Pierce . Pp. 552 + 11 plates + 3 maps. (Washington. Government Printing Office, 1913)
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C., B. Hydrology in the Pacific 1 . Nature 93, 71 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093071a0
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