CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE I. 



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British Honduras. Position and neighbouring States. Historical Sketch. 

 Constitution. Area. Boundaries. Coa^t-line. Interior. Highlands. 

 River system. Belize. Chief institutions. Health. Harbour. 

 Population. Imports, exports, and revenue. Chief industries. 

 Minerals. Wild animals. Bird life. Fish. Turtle. Conchs. Snakes. 

 Flies. Leaf-cutting ants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 



CHAPTEE II. 



Belize down the Coast. Sibun Eiver. Manattee Bay. Mullin's Eiver. 

 Fruit Companies. Tracts of fine land. Communication by river ' 

 impeded. Colston Point. North Stann Creek. Commerce Bight 

 coco-nuts. All Pines. Eegalia and Serpon sugar estates. Factory 

 for extracting oil from cohune-nuts. Old saw-mills. Labour for 

 sugar estates. Wages. Journey up Sittee Eiver. Scenery and 

 vegetation. Pit-pan travelling. Forest growth. Lands for bananas, 

 coffee, cacao, oranges. Hell Q-ates. South Stann Creek. Monkey 

 Eiver. Spaniards. Creoles. Caribs. Walize Fruit Company. Point 

 Ycacos. Deep Eiver. Port Honduras. Seven Hills district. Sugar 

 estate. Yield per acre. " Fly." Eio Grande Eiver. Toledo Settle- 

 ment. Ponta Gorda. Neat Carib village. Eeturn to Belize . . . . 25 



CHAPTEE III. 



Trip to western districts. Haul-over. Cramer's Bank. Bridge over Sibun 

 Swamp. John Young's Pine-ridge. Camping out. Butcher Burn's 

 Bank. Limestone Hills. Eich soils. Bush Travelling. G-ale Creek. 

 Bever Dam. Mahogany forest. Mahogany works. Castile Bank. 

 Prickly bambu. Mount Pleasant. Bad roads. Orange Walk. 

 Government lands for sale. How mahogany is cut. Trucking 

 mahogany. Logwood cutting. Eoaving Creek. Savannah Bank. 

 Warree Head Creek. Monkey Fall Savannah. Granny Creek. Mount 

 Hope. The Cayo. Coffee plantation. Position and importance of 

 the Cayo. Communication with Belize. Indian settlement at San 

 Francisco. To Belize by river in doray . . . . . . . . . 40 



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