111,425 square miles; ¹ 90,277 square miles in Brit-
ish Guiana, 8,598 in British Honduras, 4,450 in
Jamaica and 8,200 in the smaller islands. The larg-
est island, Jamaica, is about four-tenths the size of
Haiti.

Comparisons of their trade development with that of
their neighbors are deceptive for many reasons, chiefly
because of the varying degrees of order in the different
communities. Counting in only the islands, though
their area is only 12,650 square miles compared to 18,-
045 square miles in the Dominican Republic, their for-
eign trade is still five times that of the Republic. On
the other hand, they make a less favorable contrast when
compared to the better developed regions, especially
Porto Rico. The latter, with 1,118,012 people com-
pared to 1,733,900 in the British West Indies, has an
area of only 3,436 square miles compared to their total
of 12,650. Yet the total foreign trade of Porto Rico
is four-fifths that of all the British West Indian islands.

In population, the British West Indies are typical of
all the islands, with the exception of Cuba and Porto
Rico. They are distinctly not a white man's country.
Trinidad, and to a lesser degree, Jamaica, like British
Guiana on the mainland, have resorted to the importa-
tion of East Indians to supplement the inefficient or
insufficient supply of labor furnished by the native
blacks. No important influx of other races has oc-
curred. White men do not take residence except as they
are employed in supervisory capacities on the planta-
tions or in business. From all present indications these

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