THE CAREBBEE ISLANDS 325 



England has done all within her power to give this 

 island civilization, but, with the decrease in the price of 

 sugar, governmenl expenditures have rapidly grown, owing 

 largely to the attempts to improve the harbor; and the 

 public revenue is now Ear Less than the expenses. It' the 

 sugar industry fails, the future of Antigua will be more 

 gloomy than that of the other islands, its capabilities being 

 less and its liability to droughts and hurricanes greater. 

 The local trad.', once in the hands of rich English mer- 

 chants, is now rapidly falling into the hands of a people 

 who are known as Portuguese, but in reality are natives 

 of the Azores. 



Grande-Terre (Guadeloupe), Desirade, and Maria Galante, 

 which by natural affinities belong to the Anguillan group, 

 are politically essential parts of Guadeloupe, and will later 

 be described with that island. 



