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Title: India rubber world
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Rubber industry and trade
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Bill Brothers Publishing Corp.)
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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s it will be when it gets to be a rub-ber producer. To go back a little, the Sandwich islands were discoveredin 1778 by Captain Cook, whom the natives believed to beedible, and whom they at one proceeded to get away with.Some time in the present century they were re-discoveredby William J. fiorhani of the Gorham Rubber Co., of SanFrancisco. The natives did not cherish the illusions regard-ing him that they did toward the former discoverer and hegot awaj with them. When I met him in Honolulu he hadjust subjugated every trader in the group, and was planningto sell to a syndicate, enough of his wonderful steam hoseto run a pipe line from the volcano of Kilauea to Honolulu,to furnish steam for industrial purposes. The islands comprising the territory of Hawaii are sevenlarge ones and quite a number of little ones. They areHawaii, Maui. Oabu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, and Niihau.According to the census of 1900 they had 154,001 inhab-itants. Of these islands, the most densely populated is that
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Map of The Hawaiian Islands, ^_ COMPRISING The Territory of Hawaii.

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