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Guiana and some small islands in the Car- 

 ibbean Sea, but most of them, with the Isles 

 of France and Bourbon in the Indian 

 Ocean, and Pondicherry and Chanderna- 

 gore in India, were destined soon to be 

 taken from her. 



Denmark held St. Martin, St. Thomas 

 and St. John, and Sweden, St. Barthole- 

 mew, all small islands in the West Indies, 

 while England, though she had lost her fair- 

 est colonial possession, the United States, 

 still held Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick and Canada in 

 North America, Jamaica, Trinidad, the 

 Leeward and Windward Islands in the 

 West Indies, Honduras in Central and 

 Guiana in South America, Sierra Leone 

 and the gold coast in Africa, and Ceylon, 

 Bombay and Calcutta in Asia. 



In considering the trade of the United 

 States with these colonies, the clearest way 

 to understand the question is to regard all 

 trade with them as prohibited, and see un- 

 der what conditions it was finally allowed. 



