Boundary. North, Arctic Ocean; east, Canada; south, Pacific Ocean; west, Behring Sea. Capital.-Juneau. Capes.-Pt. Barrow, Pt. Lisburne, and Prince of Wales. 72. The Hawaiian Islands, shown on the map in Fig. 3, are situated in the North Pacific Ocean southwest of the United States. They were annexed to the United States July 7, 1898, and they became a territory of the United States April 30, 1900. The geographical position of the islands has made them a convenient midocean post station and they have therefore become a most important commercial center. The cultivation and exporting of sugar is the leading industry of the islands. Other exports are coffee, honey, hides, bananas, pine apples, and wool. Capital. Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. GUAM 73. The island of Guam, shown in Fig. 3, is the largest of the Marianne, or Ladrone, Archipelago and was ceded by Spain to the United States December 10, 1898. It lies in a direct line from San Francisco to the southern part of the Philippines, and is 5,200 miles from San Francisco and 900 miles from Manila. It is about 32 miles long and 100 miles in circumference, and has a population of about 8,661, of whom 5,249 are in Agana, the capital. The inhabitants are mostly immigrants or descendants of immigrants from the Philippines, the original race of the Ladrone Islands being extinct. The prevailing language is Spanish. Nine-tenths of the islanders can read and write. The island is thickly wooded, well watered, and fertile, and possesses an excellent harbor. The productions are tropical fruits, cacao, rice, corn, tobacco, and sugar cane. Commander Taussig, of the United States gunboat Bennington, took possession of the island and raised the United States flag over Fort Santa Cruz on February 1, 1899. Capital.-Agana on Agana Bay. THE PHILIPPINES 74. The Philippine group, a map of which is shown in Fig. 4, lies off the southern coast of Asia; it consists of about 2,000 islands, great and small. The actual land area is about 140,000 square miles, or equivalent to the combined area of the New England States, New York, and New Jersey. The island of Luzon, on which the capital city, Manila, is situated, is the largest member of the group, being about the size of the state of New York; Mindanao is nearly as large, but its population is very much smaller. The other islands of importance follow in the order of their areas: Samar, Panay, Mindoro, Leyte, Negros, Cebu. Although agriculture is the chief occupation of the Filipinos, only one-ninth of the surface is under cultivation. The soil is very fertile, and even after deducting the mountainous areas it is probable that the area |