Show a r Air Route 1 Islands u t tt t 2 fl k-I k r t rw tr a r y aft r j y n 1 m M A r A Vista In Barbados West We t Indies Indict Prepared ar d l by the th National Society D C C Island domains that seem T DUPLE destined to take tahe on new Im Importance with the dc development of air 01 r traffic tame were ere passed overby user OHr by the Graf Zeppelin on Its recent trl angular voyage from Europe to South America to r orth rth American and back bach to Europe The Cape Verde Islands were ere sight sighted sighted sighted ed first They lie far from the usual ship lanes and are visited by few dens One trotter globe-trotter pronounced them the the most uninteresting place ilace I Iba ba hale e visited It Is true that the Cape Verde erde Islands Is do not compare with Ith the et ee Canaries nearer neuer In beauty human Interest faunal tea fea features tures or salubrious salu breezes Baedeker er ignores them 1 let et no non that they ore are taking on new nen Importance as land landfalls landfalls tails falls on aerial routes the may maybe maybe maybe be rescued from Innocuous obscurity The naturalist would find on one ot of the Islands a seabird no noun non n else ele elsewhere elsewhere where here and ond a plant eating lizard rd The student of ot economic geography would be Interested d to work ork out the reason shy hy the Inhabitants of one of ot the group Brava Brasa ha e do eloped a had landowning 0 owning propensity which smith leads them Into constant legal wrangles while a spirit of ot come what inn ma and Indifference Indifference Indifference ference to ow 0 ownership of ot anything In Infests Infests felts the other Islands The Islands recently de developed eloped theIr trade to a point n where h here re the state de- de dep de de- department I p established a new nov consulate on the Island Inland of Sao St Incent Incent St Vincent Is one of the 14 Islands ot of the group which form a crescent about miles west of ot DaLar Dakar the easternmost city on the African con Porto Grande capital of St Vincent Intent and one of ot the t few m large port to tons ns In the islands Hands Is built hullt In ass a n ell protected location with Ith high moun mountains mountains at Its hack and In front the e heights of ot the Island of St StAnthony Anthony almost shutting In a n wide Ide deep harbor harlor from the sea Total Area Is 1 Small The 14 l-l Islands could be placed on the state of Island and only n a nfl afew fl w rug rugged ell edges would extend 0 oser er erthe time the borders Sao ao ao Tillage St Jago the largest of or the Cape erdes erdes Is slightly smaller In area than the city of I 1 os Angeles Angells w while bile the smallest Is Island island Island land Is mell measured by squire square yards All the larger Islands are lab Inh th the of ot time the population being qu mitered In compact s villages III ages and to tons ns built In small recesses In time tho steep mountainsides 0 overlooking time the thebe bed be But It Is In the Interior of the larger er Islands that one finds the real nath e life lIe of oC the thc Cape erdes It Is sid f that the ancestors of these leo peo pie Ille of the Interior on once co 11 lived ell alon along the seashore But nut tor a n hundred years cars after atter Spain took control of the Islands the Cape Verdes were ere plundered derell dered by pirates During this period the Inhabitants tied led to the s from which they seldom emerged ex except c pt to 10 trade Most lost of these Salley are arc black but ono one often otten notes Portuguese features They Ther speak sleak a poor quality Portuguese which Is dim cult for the to understand Like Gr Greenland the name Cape Verde Is dL deceptive It was as taken nom Cape Verde Africa and In good E means Green Cape but there is little on time the Islands to suggest that the Cape Cope Verdes erdes deserve to be culled called Cape Cule Green Islands Here and there ulong along the Hie shore hore and In ID u a few tew In iii tenor valleys alleys s arc patches of ot fertile land but rocks and sund sand claim the ter portion of ot the urea fresh freshwater Freshwater water ater has lias ah ahU always U s been hlen u a luxury lack lach of which has caused serious famines families n in n the past Iu t Natives Are Arc a Busy Lot that the make the best of their barren Islands Is d l by byE bythe time tho fact that they produce Indigo cot cor coffee E fee castor beans fruits tobacco pout poul tr potatoes and mill yams sates Salt Suit Is nl also o oun un an Important product Many of ot th the inhabitants who ho are not employed ell In agriculture or shipping are good bood fish fisli f mid and making rum cur cur- curing ing lag fish ush an manufacturing straw tints hats and seats seats- then hen the Islands were discovered more than years ago by two t Portuguese uese sea captains they were ere de of human bumon life The only ex- ex excitement excitement ex excitement was as the occasional overflow 0 overflowing ing of a n volcanic crater The latest eruption occurred In 1050 For more than oo sears ears the Cape Verdes built up a n flourishing trade and became Portugal s principal out out- outpost outpost post of ot trade with Africa Until the tho middle of the last century the nath es reaped a hun harvest hanest est from the African she e trade This Tills probably accounts for the majority of In the tho present population of ot about Those Inhabitants who ho are not black are Portuguese or of mixed blood In the early days when hen Mw l evv Lag land was as famous as a whaling haling cen center center center ter many of the crews s of or the whalers were ere recruited In the Cape Verdes Those who ho did not return to the Is islands Islands lands settled In is southeastern Massa Massa- Massachusetts Massachusetts In the vicinity of New hew ned Bed Bedford Bedford ford llla Bravoes the name by which they are sometimes known comes from the name of the Island from which most of the recruits migrated migrated- migrated Brava the south Island of the Cape erde erde group Barbados Densely Inhabited Quite different Is Barbados one or of orthe the most Interesting and less well well- well known no I known n of ot Great Britain's possessions In the Western estern ti estern Hemisphere Pear Pear- shaped Pear shaped solitary farthest cast east of or the Nest Indies Barbados generally is 18 accounted the most healthful of or the group e even esen en though It Is the most populous country In the world per er square mile except pt China and although al- al al although though George Washington carried to his gran gra grave e a the marks of or the smallpox contracted on a visit there The there Island Island there Is but one despite the misleading plural name name-Is name Is but nn an eighth the size of or our Rhode thode Island but has twice as many Inhabitants per square mile as our smallest and most densely densel populated state Seldom does a volcano become an asset But volcanic eruptions lIa base lIae e contributed largely to the fertility of or Barbados When the sun was as ob- ob cured soured throughout one day In May the were ere panic strick strick- stricken stricken en but when the gentle rain of dust subsided the deposit was as found to be ashes from an eruption of St St Intents Incent's nearly miles to the west est and an nn enrichment for forthe forthe forthe the soil soli Hot Dusty Bridgetown Bridgetown D the Island capital Is a ahot ahot hot dusty city of or about peo pie It Is especially busy on when hen planters flock to to town ton n for busi busi- business business business ness and buying Its cathedral was as built principally by funds obtained from flom a lottery authorized by the legis legis- legislature legislature legislature lature after the original building had hod been blo blown blon n do don down n by a hurricane In 1780 I 1 abor Is so plentiful that men corn com compete com compete pete with Ith beasts of ot burden But this condition was greatly Improved Cd by the use of considerable Barbados labor In building the Panama canaL The third Important Island visited hy by the Graf Gmt Zeppelin was Porto But It was as really San Juan the capi capital capi- capi capital tal tul city rather rattier than the Island to which the great air liner Uner paid Its respects re- re respects re respects After cruising over the city It turned sharply northward and put putout putout putout out 0 over oser er the he Atlantic San Juan has hai a n population of or more than and has bas nearly Dearly doubled In size since Ince the island came under American control It was as from San SanJuan SanJuan an Juan that Ponce de Leon Loon set sail like another Jason In search of ot the Golden Fleece for the fulfillment of his charming if It boyish bo ISh dream of finding the Fountain of louth which we all recall re resulted uIt d In the disco discovery ery of the end eDd of the United States San Sun Juan wits was liS a settlement half n a century before St Augustine Fla the theold old oldest t town to In to the United States carne came Into LeID being and a n full century before the Pilgrims landed at Ply Ply- Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth mouth Rock It began to take on time the sem semblance I nce of ot a u city Moro More than two t arid and a half centuries s before the Unit Unit- United United United ed States began to build the White WhiteHouse Whitehouse WhiteHouse House In 1 ashington Spain started the construction of the Casa the governors governor's o ern ors or's palace |