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Agana,
The principal town and district of the island of Guam, the largest of the Ladrone Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, about 1,500 miles east of Luzon, in the Philippines.
As a result of the war between the United States and Spain, the former took possession of this island, and in the following year established a seat of government in this town with Capt. Richard P. Leary, U. S. N., as the first governor.
The population of the island is between eight and nine thousand; three-fourths of the people live in the district of Agana, and four-fifths of this number, or 5,249, in the town.
Under American control the town and its vicinity speedily took the appearance of greater activity and prosperity than was ever before seen there; and the process of Americanizing continued with excellent results till Nov. 13, 1900, when both the town and the island were swept by a typhoon, in which the United States auxiliary cruiser Yosemite was wrecked on a coral reef, after drifting 60 miles fro
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agassiz , Louis John Rudolph , 1807 -1873 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alaskan boundary, the. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Aleutian, or Aleutan, Islands, (search)
Aleutian, or Aleutan, Islands,
A group in the North Pacific Ocean, stretching in a row from the peninsula of Alaska towards the shores of Kamchatka.
They belong to the Territory of Alaska.
These islands were discovered by Bering in 1728, and are about 150 in number.
A few of them are inhabited, chiefly by Eskimos.
The population is estimated at nearly 6,000.
Russian missionaries have converted them to Christianity, and they are chiefly engaged in the various fisheries.
The islands are volcanic and rocky, and agriculture is unknown there.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Apia,
The principal town and commercial port of the Samoan Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, situated on the north coast of the island of Upolu.
The harbor is small, but, ordinarily, a safe one.
In March, 1889, the island and harbor were swept by a terrific hurricane, which wrecked the United States ships Trenton (flag-ship) and Vandalia, and the German men-of-war EbZZZr, Adler, and Olga, and drove ashore the United States steamer Nipsic.
the Calliope (British) was the only man-of-war in the harbor that succeeded in escaping to sea. The town and its vicinity were the scene, in 1890, of a series of fatal riots, growing out of the claims of Mataafa and Malietoa.
Tanus to the king-ship.
Several American and British naval officers were killed or wounded, April 1, in subduing the native mob.
Athabasca Indians,
A nation of North American Indians divided into two great families, one bordering on the Eskimos in the Northwest, and the other stretching along the Mexican frontier from Texas to the Gulf of California.
The domain of the Northern family extends across the continent from Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean.
There are some smaller bands of the same nation, scattered along the Pacific coast from Cook's Inlet to Umpqua River, in Oregon.
The Northern family is divided into a large number of tribes, none of them particularly distinguished.
The population of the Northern family is estimated at 32,000, that of the scattered bands at 25,000, and the Southern family at 17,000.
The latter includes the Navajos and those fierce rovers, the Apaches, with which the government of the United States has had much to do. The Southern family also includes the Lipans on the borders of Texas.
The Athabascans are distinguished for their heavy beards, short hands and feet, and squa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Balboa , Vasco Nunez de , 1475 - (search)
Balboa, Vasco Nunez de, 1475-
Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean; born in Xeres de los Caballeros.
Spain. in 1475; went to Santo Domingo in 1501; and thence to the Isthmus of Darien in 1510.
Pope Alexander VI. (q. v.) gave to the Spanish crown, as God's vicegerent on the earth, all lands that lay 300 leagues westward of the Az ins.
On Nov. 26, 1513, Nuņez and his men were near the bold rocky summit of a mountain.
The leader ascended it alone, when he beheld a mighty sea. It was the Pacific Ocean.
On that summit he and his followers set up a huge cross, and then descended to the shore of the sea. Wading into its waters, Nuņez took formal possession of ter that he made voyages along its coast, and heard tidings of Peru, where the Incas, or rulers, drank out of golden vessels.
After Davila came, Nuņez was falsely accused of traitorous intentions by his jealous successor and rival, and he was beheaded at Acla, near Darien, in 1517.
So perished the discoverer of the Pacific Ocean
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beecher , Henry Ward , 1813 - (search)