The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-22

EHkfA "a N So. syIlIluES
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and the space there is a small gulf. The
island beast, sketched fiat on the sea,
shows many black spots on the side:
they are mountains There are veins
also and these are swift streams; small
circles in few places-towns. The area
of the broadside is 3, 376 square miles.
1t is moro than twice as big as Rhode
Island-smaller somewhat than Connec-
ticut And the population exceeds o
quarter of million.
OF the towns here marked, we are
concerned with only two; Corte and
| Ajaocio. The former is the old home of
the Buonapartes the latter, the place to
which the family removed just at the
time when, by the birth of a manchild
clad with thunder, it was destined to
emerge from medieval obscurities star
like, Sirius-like, into the open sky of
fame.
The genesis of Napoleon touches a re-
markable ethnic condition Nearly all
of the West Aryan races have contribut-
ed to the population of the island i'll
which he was born. The people and the
architecture alike show traces of all
these remote but potent Influences i'll de-
termining the final race-character of the
Corsicans who, after the fifteenth Gen.
tury, became essentially Italian. The
race is thus composite i'll its derivation
to as great degree as any people in the
world. Besides the ethnic origin, the
environment-the narrow confines of the
island, its mountainous character, its
pleasant situation in the pellucid waters
of the Mediterranean, its easy distance
from the long bending line of one Of the
most famous coasts of the world--has
tended powerfully, by the reactions of
nature on the human animal, to estab-
lish and confirm the small insular race
whose one man was destined to give it
a conspicuous place in human annals.
The Buonapartes were true Corsicans
The family reaches back obscurely into
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the Middle Ages. The name is Italian,
and shows linguistically an origin as
teino'o "s 'iie 'eiiaisSanoe' ihere WERE
i'"ii"u as "oii 40 WI niVo'i iouohipaI
fanny Vi thls haiiie il'eu III 'iie us
can Guy Vi oarNaha' ahotner perhaps'
in Genoa, and another at Florence Ex-
amples ere found in which the spelling
gwen mus ll ar.e' ihey vi
Sa ',a. meie ennupeu II. ehe s,A.eeh.n
49, \; u. -, W" 1870 NC
,nhnn tha Co. o,o ,, ~ ho,',, VI" III epooi
,,nssa houan", haa ma' ' a..,,- no ID
10th i, T,soan, and -, ,ha ieIanS
,rhoroto n hranol, of +lo f,r,iI,, a. sara,
rnLnoyn data ra,,,ora1 and aSto ,S;shnd
;tSolf ~ Cor,a or Aiooo;o
A. ,Lo r,;daIa 81 tha r;,,..o,,,,
tr,,. tho Lo,d 81 tho Corsi,,,,,, 80
nartos yos Ioso,h s,randr.,.n',. - No
poiaon nj 81 ' s ;nai w. ,.. 70 a,
tha oa,,+ar -, tha;siona Io,a,,t, ,,oaoi,.a -,
n natent ~ nohilitv From, tba lrand d, ,I
~ Trscanr ,nal,;nn h., ,",,;o;ar.
and thiS ,,orthIass 5;s,;na+;or ,,aa 49,,
rod down 70 his son Ca,,a p,omano s,
,yhoso ri,l,ts Wow oo,,enn,aa ~, ~, ",
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France
The geographical position of Corsica
oada ~ bo,,aa 90 oo,ito,,t;,1,' a,
Powers. From the sixteenth to the eight.
zenith century the island was under the
suzerainty of Genoa The people were
partisans. Some favored the Genoese;
some, the French; and some, other Ital.
ian States. At the middle of the eight.
zenith century, there was turbulence.
The patriots rose against Genoa, and O
certain General Won Neuhof was about
to be made king, when French army
under General Marbnuf was sent int
the island to bring it into subsection,
The French had just lost their colonial
empire in North America, and were
anxious to make gain in the Mediter
ranean to counterbalance the growing
power of Great Britain.
After the episode of Won Neuhof, the
patriot leader Pascal Paoli gained an as
tendency in Corsica, and became dicta
tor. He contended valiantly for the in
dependence of his country, and for Q
while held his powerful enemies at bay.
This, however, could not last. The
French party among the Corsicans de
sired the breaking of all connection be-
tween their country and the petty state
OF Genoa and union with the power