affic 
resent dapes of Gra 
is a 000. Little Cayman contains only 35 inhabitants while 
the population of Cayman Brac is said to be about 300 whites aad : 
30 blae 
It isa remarkable characteristic of the inhabitants of these tropical - 
islets ‘that they are a temperate, strong, tall, healthy-looking people, - 
chiefly vida ^o or coloured. They are doubtless descended from the 
original settlers of the last century. The proportion of black people . 
i at is Mixer ate iu small. d^ 
The t Governor of vermemndi Sir Henry Norman, has t 
[May 1888] he was mpani nied by } or: William Fawcett, F. L.S 
Director of the Hotanicál Department, whose mission was 
connected with an investigation into a disease which has existed for 
some time amongst the cocoa-nut palms at Grand Cayman. 
We understand that Mr. Fawcett is at present engaged in the pre- 
paration of an official report of his visit. In the meantime the following 
extract from a letter just received from him will afford a first impression 
of the vegetable resources of these lonely and little known islands :— 
Jamaica, 21st May 1888. 
have a returned from a visit with the aoe to the Cayman 
cultivation of “ ground provisions ” : 
Brac exports a “large number of cocoa-nuts, as much told 
to 800,000 annually. The shore is lined with cocoa-nut pah 
and there is no disease. A very great number of nuts are, hc 
destroyed by rats 
Grand Cayman i is surrouuded by coral elis amd th tie, shor 
5 what is usual in such places, but at as 
ns of an indigenous fl whic 
examination. My special work Dede: to i 
produets of the islands, I could not dovete i 
