372 CUBA AND PORTO RICO 



lemstad is the residence of the governor of all the West 

 Indian Dutch islands, including Saba, St. Eustatius, and 

 tlu' half of St. Martin, three hundred miles away, and the 

 adjacent islands of Oruba and Buen Ayre. He has his 

 staff and council and army, and the gezaghebbers, or chiefs, 

 of all the other islands report to him. 



Curacao does a large business with Venezuela, largely 

 through smugglers, who take the goods to the mainland. 

 The cordial made of orange-peel and known as curagao is 

 not made on the island, but in Holland, although iFis the 

 favorite island drink. 



The remaining islands of this group, of which Margarita 

 is the largest, are rocky, dry, and arid, and of little com- 

 mercial or economic importance. 



