26 CUBA AND PORTO RICO 



Vincent, Grenada, and the Grenadines constitute the Carib- 

 bee Island government, with a capital at Kingstown, St. 

 Vincent. Trinidad, with Tobago, constitutes another sep- 

 arate colony, and Barbados still another. In all there are 

 six British colonial groups in the West Indies, without 

 any confederated relations to one another. 



The widely separated Dutch islands are all parts of the 

 colony of Curacao, with its seat of government on the 

 island of that name. The administration is composed of 

 a governor and three other colonial officers nominated by 

 the crown, and an elective colonial council. 



The islands of St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas con- 

 stitute a crown colony of Denmark. The island of Na- 

 vassa, between Haiti and Jamaica, is claimed by its pro- 

 prietors to belong to the United States, but the latter gov- 

 ernment has not acknowledged any proprietary right in it. 



Many of the islets and reefs, such as Aves, Roncador, 

 etc., are beyond the pale of any government. This may 

 be both on account of their general worthlessness to civili- 

 zation, and because ownership would require expensive 

 responsibility, such as placing lights for the protection 

 of navigation. 



