Along this line it may not be out of place to mention some facts in connection with the acquisition of these islands and their history. They were discovered by Captain Cook in 1789. and at that time were populated by a warlike. vigorous. and hEarty race. They were a higher type of what may be termed "barbarous Asiatics." The islands are situated in the Pacific Ocean. some 2.000 miles from the coast of North America and about 4.030 from the coast of Asia. The people of the islands were almost entirely isolated from the outside world up to the time of their discovery by Cook. The population then numbered between four and five hundred thousand.
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The speaker describes the native Hawaiians as a 'higher type of what may be termed 'barbarous Asiatics'.