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Wake Island,
An island in the North Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Hong-Kong.
On July 4, 1898, Gen. Francis V. Greene, with a few officers, whi ngton, this 17th day of January, 1899, took possession of the atoll known as Wake Island, for the United States of America.
Wake Island is supposed to be the DesiWake Island is supposed to be the Desierta—that is, the desert, and La Mira, take care —of the charts of the Spanish galleon taken by Anson in 1743.
It was discovered in 1796 by the Prince William Henry ost frequent.
It is not to be confounded with Weeks Island, or with another Wake Island on the western coast of Patagonia.
Wake Island is nearly or quite awash iWake Island is nearly or quite awash in heavy gales; very low and steep to seaward; from 9 to 20 miles in circumference, according to wind and tide.
The larger portion of it is a lagoon.
The vegetation famous Wilkes expedition westward from San Francisco to New York hove to off Wake Island on the night of Dec. 19, 1841, and in the morning after breakfast a number o