The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-08-15
STILL VEXED BERNOOTHES
SHAKESPEARE'S ARIEL DISCUSS
ED PRACTICALLY.
Value of the Bahamas to Great Brit
ain-Value of the Hawaiian Islands
to the United States.

w Hut NOulu England take lOT neT
Bermudas? She has been their own
er for 300 years. Though numerous,
they contain only nineteen solid
square miles. Bermuda's commercial
relations are almost altogether with
this country; her exports to us are 40
times as great as to Great Britain,
and imports twice as great. Finacial-
ly she is not worth to England one
hundredth part of the money expend-
ed upon her, her exports being in 1897
tritie over 100000, and her imports
about the same. But England would
not probably sell Bermuda for $780,
100000. She has spent millions on
her forts, her harbor, her dry dock
and navy yard. She keeps from one
to three regiments of redcoats there,
under a distinguished lieutenant gem
eral in charge as governor i'm chief.
There were fourteen war vessels,
large and small, in her harbor only
last spring. She has a dozen forts.
Next to Gibraltar and Malta, Bermuda
is said to be the most strongly forti-
fed port in all of the British domain.
Why?
glance at the map. or better vet,
a globe, explains. These islands are
entirely by themselves in the midst
of the Atlantic. No land is within 600
miles. y closer survey will show
that they are about equi-distant from
Newfoundland. Nova Scotia. Maine.
New York, Virginia, Georgia. the Ba-
hamas, Hayti and the Northern An
tilles-all of them from 600 to 700
miles away. The map will show them
Wv, I, re - ~, - " " cIiEie' Ihe west
81 - n''ii % which - outliLieu ny al
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eofo+, "J'"uh, VI ietre". easily ior
49, anu iePa'rs' anu would nave
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~ ulo'e"n con ciheht' FROM Tnere
,,aa, eaSrS eaii ueIeilu her possessions
Zoo fo o'I O. ~ ~ i ilelIi co1sls ana De not
go 80 i"i VI " heeP snarP eye on the
80 iaS Eno%l"s I'd callai. III Is simply
On l.' 'i, I PosSesSioh'
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Wv, ca" - i'i IAN ne hawaiian Islands
g. ~ M, 'ne onl'eu o'ateS III the facl-
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~ Iooiateu lroll All others;
third ~ 49, - ~ oen.ei Vi lu Il
ii .t';Ni- w ~i'h r"uiuS ol @'oJo
- S,I Wilion reaches the various ports
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isIn1dad ' M % az "li,losV uh-
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tbo NustraIa.ia, ;at 'i,u '"e nearest vi
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cram I'LL. 49, -. - I'm avail ueo
9s Observation-Disclosures. 'IpSS " u.s. DIS wen
te,ohinn. IL ouI carry
rica t. ~, o, o 49, u e"' pllVish Anne
ara ond r,,o.Ia1 ~ "iiiioS' as we
find bar da ,",,u "o IN, uhuouptedly
Asia+io 90 t Isl que INK 10 JON her
Rmt ,,,, 10 -Ali'e lcaH possessions.
+ban s6o Sto iiei Immensely more
poniGo In ~ tle lniuI'le OF the
at son fnninr huS .uIleieu monitor
from on ,"O am5 'ne aPPIoacnlhg enemy
fars bo,.so i'i0 ~ s'uc: ana She Oh
moni+or isiar T't th price, 10 De our
A. 50 r. .iiele'
find II anr, "i fa"tion we might Always
vessel, ~ h ui,iG h 10 nave some OF our
sIra a aood b,,n liai pois' we could m
baving tban, 80, ~ Cile lsldluS by
statinn for as iiilI 'l.I coallng