320 



\VK>T 1MMKS. 



with an area of 27 square miles, ami 6,000 inhab- 

 itants. 



The area of the Spanish island of ynnn t ! 

 and uf Annnboni, Coriteo. Klobry, ami .Si Jmin. 

 on the Guinea coast, is 890 square miles, with u 

 iH.i.ulalioi. 



WE81 IMHIs. \V,*t lii.lian i-.lan.lsan> 



colonies of Kuropcan powers with n of 



and of Hajli. which I- divided brtwtvli luo 



itulc|>endent repobttos <*** HAYTI and > 



1 ilia ami I'li.-rto lit.., an- the only re- 

 maining Swinish colonir- in America (see i 

 The ' the inhabitants of the Wc.-t Indie- 



are descendants of enfranchised negro slares. )i<> 

 constitute on some bland* almost tin- entire j.,.|.u- 

 lation. The Guianas are in South Am<t 



ti-h < oloni, v -nish possessions in 



imded n iptj each of 



which is administered by a <- The total 



imports of tli.- Mrin-h colonies in 1895 amounted 



545.496, including bullion and specie, and (he 



total .V.-.TI- In 1*93 the exp-n- 



: in value. The arareKai 



of all th.- colonies in 1895 was 1 



and their 



. :t58. The imports of Great 

 Britain from the*- 



59 represented sugar. 6158.044 

 rum. 1565.555 cacao, and . lye* The 



I lriti*h exports to tin- islands were valued al 



f which represented cotton 



goods, 247.884 apparel. U'Js.iMs leather and leath- 



'.151.082 iron manufactures, and I 

 mnchi 



Thf Bahama* have an area of 5.450 s< in are mil.-, 

 and a |*'pulation estimated at 51. 5 IT. I'here were 



births and l.ls-J deaths in ls5. Th. 

 inn' in 1*1*5 was 3.fc. and expenditure- IT.-J.I 10. 



The value of th.- Imports was 172.581, and of ex- 

 ports .ITJI.HII. The product- of the sponge H-h- 

 eries was 6T.565. The exports of fresh pineapples 

 >: ' -crved nineapples are also ex- 

 ported. The cultivation of the risal plant is in- 

 creasing. The Bahamas have Income an important 



r report. The Governor i- Sir \V. !'. lia\n.-> 

 Smith. The public del.t amounts to 114.rJ<>. ' 



>taira has an area of 4,200 miles, and a popu- 

 lation estimated in 1894 at 672.762. The white 

 population in 1X91 was 14.692. Kin^-t-n. the capi- 

 tal, had 44S.542 inhabitants. The number of mar- 

 ria*v* in 1895 was 3,629; of births. 25,298; of 

 d.th*. 14.321 : excess of birtt Th.- immi- 



-S suspended in 1NS6. was resumrd 

 in 1V1. Th.-re were 18.828 Kast Indian immi- 

 grants in 1H03. The' -i Henry Arthur 

 Blake. The West India regiments maintained in 

 Jamaica y the Brit i-h (iovernment ha<l in 1897 a 

 strength of 1.567 officers an<l m.-n. There ar- ll'.i 

 miles of railroad. The import s in 1895 were valued 

 at 388JM5 : exports, 1.873,105. The largest ex- 



- 1195.459, rum fc.r fir4.6(K), 

 and coffer for i'2K4.H2l. The revenue was 4>U.- 



-xpemlitun-. 1- ! he largest items of 



expenditure were 88.881 for public works, fsi.i 1 1 

 for the debt, an.l ' ,K,lice. Tin- debt 



amounts to 2.1T4.O4i. including guarantees. It 

 wa mainly incurred for publi, ,,-h as rail- 



roads, canal-, and roads. The d.--lin- in the c.ilti- 

 ratkm of sugar ,i ,,! but 1 H-r*iM.-nt ; the 



increase in coffee, cacao. irinjrir. and toba-o has 



mat, and in banana* Mill greater. The de- 

 struetion of the Florida orange groves in 18!' : 

 to a large increase in the Jamaica fruit exports. 

 The export of sugar Li only 11 p. r c.-nt. of the 

 total exports, whereas it was 82 p*-r cent, twenty 

 years ago. About half the imj* rts come from 

 Great Bntain. and near u the United 



States, whose proportion is increasing. 



Turk- and Caicos I-land>. attached to .lai: 



an area of Iti'.i ^.juare miles, and a population 

 :ipl..\rd mainly in raking >ali. which i> 

 '.-d to thel'iiited State>. ( 'anada. and 

 fiiiindlaiul. The Caxinan l-land-. with a popula- 

 tion \port OOOtNUMltf Mid glMD turtlo. 



//(/ .- . ''< - I IMi mile-, and a 



|K>pulatioii otimaled at 188.000. The revenue in 



wafl I'll''. .-ndituiv. The 



iniblic debt i- i-in:,.nM. TI,,. Qon root la sir 



.lames Shaw lla\. Tin- headiinarler- an- h.-r.- of 

 the KnrojK-an garrison of the West Indies, nuniber- 



" oilicrr-. and 717 men in !Mi. Th. i. an- 'J I 

 mile- of railroad. The loeal revenue in l^.i:, was 



"'.. The -iii;ar 'T..p. the only important one. 

 declined from MW> hogsheadi in i^i to ::I;.I.M 

 in isj:,. The fisheries yield about 617,000 annually. 



The total value of eipOltsin 1 s >8, and 



..f import^ l'95i.!v>l. The export ofsogarwai ' 



..f molass. ip in IVi:, 



was greatly reduced by drought and the cane di 

 ease. In 1896 there was a good crop, and th. total 

 C\|M.H>. c<.n-i-ting mainly of -u-ar and it- pnd- 



uct>. ainounteii \S. The Government had 



proposed to assist emigration. Tin- pn>i>.-t was 

 abandoned for the time, owing to the o|i|o>il j<ni of 

 the Legislature, for \\..rk happened to be plentiful, 

 and food cheap and abundant. 



Tin- L'tirnnl Ixl<in<lx. con>i-ting of Antigua. 

 with Barbuda and lirdonda. the \irgin I- 

 I>ominiea. St. Kitt-. NYvi-. Anguilla. and Mont- 

 serrat. have a total area (f 701 square mil.-s. with 

 an estimated population of rjT><Mi. Their rc\.-nue 

 in 1895 was 119,OWI. and the expenditure I'H 1 ,:,.- 

 996. They have a debt . :. The import - 



in I*- 1 .- .allied at f.lM.'JiJS. and ftXDOl 



:;j."). The export of -ugar was J1 ;:!.i.VJ : of 

 molasses, 23,290. The Govern. .r i- Sir I- 1 ran. -is 

 Pleminc, 



The Witidwinl />//////.t have an area of 784 

 sipiare miles, with Mu.SlM) inhabitants, as e-timated 

 in 1895. The revenue fo: i :i :;-,. -liil. and 



expenditun- J15(i.H;i. Then- i- a debt of I" 5 15,750. 

 The value of the imiioris in 1M95 was 395,44'.' 

 ports, 381,050. The group consists of Grenada. 

 St. Vincent, tin- ( i n-na-lin.--. and St. Lucia. The 

 cultivation of cacao, cotton, spires, and 

 placing that of sugar cne. The (J..\. in..r i- Sir 

 Cornelius Alfred .Malon.-y. 



Trinidad has an area" of 1,754 square miles, ami 

 a population e-timated in ls'.5 at -j:;7.!:;i. The 

 capital i- I'ort of Spain, with a population of 1 

 The number of marriages in ls'.i.~> wa* J.icl'J; of 

 births. 8.059: <f death-. .").s?0; excess of birih-. 

 2,183. There are 56 miles of railroad and :;<> miles 

 more in course of construction. The telegraph- 

 have a length of O'.K) miles. The depend. -nt i-land 

 of Tobago, where cotton and tob.i r-.wn. 



ha- an .if. a "f 111 square mil.-x. and ,(>.(:{! popula- 

 tion. The agricultural products of Trinidad an 

 sugar. . ..IT..-, oaoao, yams, and co-..anui-. F'rm 

 the pit<-h lake in the center, belonging to th. 

 ernment and lea-ed to an American compan 

 148 tons of asphalt were exported in !*!>.'.' Th. 

 total value ,f imports in 1895 was 2,276,8*5 1 

 - 2.000,748. The imports of Tobago 



\ports, j 10.517. The revenue of Trini- 

 dad wa- '. .:i. Then- 

 nblic debt of j:)t;:.t;;!i. Tobago's revenue was 

 1 : expenditur. The Governor of 

 Trinidad is Sir II. K. II. .l.-nningliam. 



\na has an estimated area of lo:- 

 mile-, including the area between th. 

 and tne S-h'mburgk line, which is claimed 

 also by Venc/.uela. The population in 1HU6 was 

 288,278. The revenue in 1896 wu 

 penditure, 596,493. The revenue from customs 



