Show A Vista In Barbados Welt West Indies Indle I Prepared by the National Geographic Society Washington D D D. C. C Island domains that seem T THREE destined to take on new V Importance Im lm- lm with the development of at air were passed over oer overby overby by the Graf Grat Zeppelin on Its Us recent triangular tri UI angular voyage from Europe to South America to North American and ond back to Europe The Cope Verde Islands were sighted sIght red ed d first Drat They lie Ue far for from the usual usual ship lanes Innes and Ind are visited by few trav-j trav elers One trotter globe-trotter pronounced them the time most uninteresting place l ll 1 fH f fIt hu have hue e It H Is true that the Cape Verde Islands islands Is is- lands do not compare with the the exquisite exquisite ex ex- ex- ex Canaries nearer Europe In beauty human Interest faunal features fea fen features tures or salubrious breezes Baedeker er Ignores them diem Yet Ye now that they are taking on new Importance as s land laud landfalls landfalls falls on aerial routes the Islands may maybe maybe be rescued from Innocuous obscurity The naturalist would find Ond on one of ot the Islands a seabird unknown elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere else else- where and a plant plant eating lizard The rhe student of ot economic geography would be Interested to work out the reason why the time Inhabitants of one of the tile group Brava Bravo have developed a land landowning owning propensity which leads them Into constant constont legal wrangles while a 8 spirit of cone comPo what may and und ference to ownership of anything Infests In Inv tests the of other her Islands The Islands recently developed de their trade to a point where the state department de lie- established a 0 new consulate on n In the Island of ot Sao Vincente St. St Vincent St. St Vincent Is one of the 14 Islands of ot the group whIch h form a n crescent about miles west of ot Dakar the easternmost city on the time African con cun Porto orto Grande capital of ot St. St V Vincent and one of the few large port towns In the tile Islands Is hullt built In a well protected location locution with high moun moun- at Its hack back and In front the massive heights of the tho Island of cf St. St Anthony almost shutting In a wide deep harbor barbor from the sea sen Total Area Is I. Small The 14 islands cou could e I be he e pl placed ce o on the state of Rhode Island Slana ana and only omy a II afew afew few rugged edges would extend over the borders Sao ao Timings St. St Jago Jugo the largest larlest of the C Cape Verdes Verdes- is slightly smaller In area than the theCly cI Y Yat of at Los IMS s Angeles Angel s while the smallest Is Is- l lind uJ Is measured by hy square yards All the larger Islands are ure Inhabited the majority of time the population being I quartered In compact villages and towns built in small recesses In the steep mountainsides overlooking the sea But It Is In the Interior of the larger Islands that one finds the real native life Ufe of the Cape Verdes It Is said that i the le once ancestors tors of ot th these sc people people peo pea pie of ot the Interior once lived along the time seashore But for tor a hundred years lifter Spain n took ook control of ot the Islands the Cape Cupe Verdes were plundered plundered dered by pirates s. s During this tills period the Inhabitants fled to the valleys s 's from which they seldom emerged except except ex ex- except to trade Most of at these se valley volley people are black but one often otten notes Portuguese features They speak a poor quality Portuguese which Is dim dim- cult for fol the European to UI understand Like Greenland Ol the name flume Cape Verde Is deceptive e It was taken n from Cape Verde Africa and In lm good English means Green Grcen Cape but there Is little on the Islands to suggest the Cape Verdes d deserve to be he called Cape Green Islands lore Here and there along the shore and in a Jew few in interior time In tenor valleys are patches of off fertile land but rocks and ands and's s sand nd claim chum cl lm the gren greater er portion of ot the area Freshwater Fresh Freshwater I water has bas always been a luxury lack of ot which has co caused used serious famines t tIn In the time past That the natives make the best of ot their barren Islands Is Indicated bythe by bythe bythe the fact that they produce Indigo coffee cottee cot cot- fee tee castor beans beaus fruits tobacco poultry poultry poul poul- try trI potatoes and ond yams yarns Salt Is also au ou Important product Many of ot the Inhabitants who are not employed In agriculture or shipping are good fishermen fish fish- ermen ennen and adept In making rum curIng cur cur- lag Ing fish and manufacturing straw V hats bats and cI seats tJ Barbados Densely Inhabited Q Quite different Is Barbados one of ot the th most interesting and less well- well known of ot Great Greut Britain's possessions In the Western Hemisphere Pear- Pear l shaped d solitary farthest east enst of at the time West Indies Barbados generally Is Is accounted the most healthful of ot the group even though It Is the most populous country In the time world per I square mile except China and ond although al- al although although al al- though George Washington carried to his grave the marks of the smallpox I contracted on a visit there The Time Island there Island there Is but one despite I the misleading plural Is name Is but an eighth the size of our Rhode Island but has hns twice as many Inhabitants per square mile as our smallest and und most densely populated state Seldom does a 8 volcano become an I asset But volcanic eruptions have bare contributed largely to the time fertility of Barbados When the time sun was obscured obscured ob ob- throughout one day In May 1912 the Barb 9 were punIc panic stricken strick stack en but hut when the gentle rain of black dust subsided the time deposit was found to be ashes from an eruption of ot St. St 1 Vincents Vincent's nearly miles I to the west and an on enrichment forthe for tor forthe the s soil ll I Hot Dusty Bridgetown Bridgetown the Island capital is ahot a ahot ahot hot dusty lusty city of aho about p peo o-I o pie It Is especially busy on Fridays when planters flock flocko to town fO for business bus busi I busl-I ness nose and buying Its Ifs cathedral was vms I built hullt principally by funds obtained from a lottery ry authorized by the time legislature legislature legis I lature after the the original building had been heen blown down by a u hurricane In I 1780 Labor Is sQ so plentiful that men c com compete compete com com- m- m pete with he beasts of burden But Hut this condition was us greatly improved by the time use of considerable Barbados l labor bor In building the Panama ammo canal I IThe The third Important Island visited I Porto Rico Illco by the Graf Zeppelin was But It was ns really San really San Juan the time capital capi till tat city rather than the time Island to which the great grent nr air liner paid pails Its re re- After Afler cruising over o the city It turned sharply northward and put putout putout putout out over o the Atlantic Sun San an Juan Junn has hus a 0 population of more thun 11 and has hns nearly doubled d dIn In size Ize since the Island came und under r American control It was from San SanJuan SanJuan Juan that Ponce once de Leon Icon set sail sall like another Jason In search of the time Golden Fleece for the time fulfillment of his hs charming If boyish dream of finding rinding the F Fountain of Youth which we all f recall call resulted In the discovery of ot the end of the United States San SlIn Juan Junn was a settlement half halt a 11 century before St St. Augustine FIn Fla the oldest town In III the United States came Into being and onel a 0 full century before the Pilgrims landed at nt Plymouth Ply Ply- mouth mout l Rock It begun began to take on the semblance of or a city More than t two o and a n. half centuries before the time United United Unit Unit- ed States s began to build the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House In Washington Spain s started the construction of the Casa Bl Blanca P the governors governor's palace |