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deprive blacks and whites alike of all participation in tlie administration of their 

 own affairs. The governor, members of council, and other functionaries were 

 nominated by the Sovereign, and Jamaica became a Crown Colony. 



Since 1884 this political system has been slightly modified. Five members 

 only of the legislative council are chosen by the central authority, nine being 

 elected by the people. In each of the fourteen parishes also the white and 

 coloured electors, who numbered about 27,000 in 1887, elect the councillors 

 charged with the administration of the local affairs. 



Fig. 188.— Chain of the Cayman Islands. 

 Scale 1 : 2,2UO,000. 



ZW 



Depths. 



C to 1,000 

 Fathoms. 



1.000 to 2.000 

 Fathoms. 



2,000 to 3,000 

 Fathoms. 



3,000 Fathoms 

 aud upwards. 



60 Miles. 



The church is separated from the state, and the blacks, in opposition to their 

 old Anglican masters, mostly Episcopalians, have all become Baptists, Methodists 

 or Presbyterians. Instruction has become general, and in 1890 about one-ninth 

 of the whole population were attending the primary schools. The army com- 

 prises a foi-ce of over 1,200 men, besides about 1,000 constabulary. 



The banks and islets of the Jamaican waters, such as the Morant Cays on 

 the south-east and the Pedro Cays on the south, are natural dependencies of the 

 island, visited chiefly by collectors of turtles' eggs and birds. Political and 

 administrative dependencies of Jamaica are also the two islets of Cayman Brae 

 and Little Cayman, together with Grand Cayman, which form a seaward continua- 

 tion of Cape Cruz and consequently belong geographically to Cuba. They have 

 a fishing population of about 4,000, and are remarkably salubrious. 



