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Saba Ls also exceptional in that its population is white, the 

 blacks overwhelmingly predominating in the other islands. 



St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, and Nevis seem to be the 

 tips of a larger submerged area represented by a shallow 

 bank which closely follows their shores. St. Eustatius, 

 eight square miles in area, is also a part of Holland's di- 

 minutive American domain, and has a population of '2'.','A) 

 people, mostly Dutch and negroes. The island has a few 

 patches of level land, but is largely made up of several old 

 volcanic hills, like two or three Sabas crowded on a single 

 platform. The principal crater is near the southern end of 

 the island, and is a perfect specimen of a cinder-cone, 

 slightly broken down on the northern side, the lower slopes 

 falling away into low hills and meadows, which make up 

 by far the greater part of the island, which is thinly 

 inhabited and without trade. In olden times its caves and 

 secret valleys served as hiding-places for pirates and 

 smugglers, and it is not entirely free from suspicion at 

 the present day. Stoddard, in his charming book entitled 

 " Cruising among the Caribbees," says that St. Eustatius 

 is a great resort for picnic parties. Judging from the 

 condition in which a party returned thence to St. Kitts, 

 some of whose members paid a visit to Stoddard's ship 

 after their day's outing, there must still be stores of spirits 

 in the craters, and a readiness to share them with all comers. 



St. Christopher or St. Kitts, as the English call it 

 can be seen from St. Eustatius, apparently floating like a 

 huge black iceberg in the sea. A nearer approach brings 

 out its beautiful colors. Hearn has pictured it as a long 

 chain of crater shapes, truncated, jagged, or round. All 

 these are united by the curving hollows of land or by fila- 

 ments, very low valleys, and from a distance not remote 

 take on a curious segmented, jointed appearance, like cer- 

 tain insect forms. 



The oval-shaped island is thirteen miles long and from 

 three to six in width, embracing in all about sixty-five 

 square miles, three fourths of its area being under cultiva- 



