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APPENDIX. 



Bahbados: — Capital, Bridgetown; population, 25,000. Land under cultivation, 100,000 acres, of whicli 

 30,000 under sugar. Yield of sugar (1889), 65,270 hogsheads. Yield of fisheries, £17,000 ; hands 

 employed, 1,500. Primary schools, 201 ; attendance, 13,000. Eailways, 24 miles. 



Leewaed IsLA>rDs:— Capital, St. Johns (Antigua) ; population, 10,000. Chief town, St. Kitts, Basse- 

 terre ; popxdation, 7,000. Yield of sugar, Antigua (1889), 10,500 hogsheads, value £223,000. 



WiNDWAED IsiJJJDS :— Capital of St. Vincent, Kingston; population, 6,000; capital of Grenada, St. 

 George's. Total imports and exports, £306,000. Land under cocoa (Grenada), 12,500 acres ; yield, 

 36,000 tons. Government and other schools, 110; attendance, 13,000. Shipping (1889), 3,114 

 vessels of 1,904,000 tons entered and cleared. 



DUTCH ANTILLES* 



Total . . 30 9,350 



Average annual yield of salt, 10,500,000 bushels. 



FEENCH ANTILLES. 



Total 



1,107 



335,950 



GuADELOTTPE : — Chief to-mis: Basseterre (capital), population, 12,000; Pointe-à-Pitre, population, 17,250; 

 Le Moule, population, 10,000. Revenue and expenditure (1890) balanced at £260,000; Debt, 

 £40,000. Imports (1889), £975,000; Exports, £1,050,000. Sugar crop (1888), 49,000 tons; land 

 under sugar-cane, 57,000 acres. Yield of Coffee, 580 tons; cofPee plantations, 125,000 acres. 

 Shipping, 946 vessels of 637,000 tons entered and cleared. Primary schools, 50 ; attendance, 9,700. 



MAETiNiatJE : — Chief towns: Eort-de-France (capital), population, 15,000; Saint-Pierre, population, 

 26,000 ; Lamantin, population 14,000 ; Le François, population, 11,000. Revenue (1890), £140,000 ; 

 Expenditure, £84,000 ; Debt, £18,000. Imports (1889), £916,000 ; exports, 940,000. Land under 

 sugar-cane (18S8), 53,000 acres; bananas, 42,000 acres. Shipping (1890), 1,920 vessels of 630,000 

 tons entered and cleared. Primary schools, 29 ; attendance, 8,320. 



Exclrsive of the Dutch islands on the Venezuelan coast. 



