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Rh The doctor was a well-educated man, and in his younger days had been an assistant teacher at a private academy situated at Sacramento. He had made a trip to the Hawaiian Islands ten years before, and knew a good deal concerning them.

"When I was there before, the islands were a monarchy, ruled over by Queen Liliuokalani, who had followed her brother, King Kalakaua, to the throne," he said. "Now all is changed. A short and bloodless revolution deposed the queen, and the islands became a republic, with Sanford B. Dole the first and only President. At first the natives, or a portion of them, wished the monarchy back, but this feeling was soon suppressed, and then Hawaii clamored for admission into our Union, and now she has been taken in, as a sort of colonial territory, with ex-President Dole as Governor. In the near future I expect one or more of the islands will become a full-fledged State."

"Along with Luzon and the rest of the Philippines," smiled Dan.

"I imagine the Philippines will have to wait. There are not so many English-speaking people there as there are at present in the Sandwich Islands."

"There is one thing I can't understand," I said. "Some call them the Sandwich Islands