Show BRITISH HONDURAS HOT SPOT i i steam heating I 1 jg plants and heavy overcoats in demand in that pa Part i ri bf ofte ane earth 3 g f british Ilon honduras duras keeps its christmas in the shade prom from its position pretty near to the equator and aved wedged ged I 1 in n between yucatan and gun guatemala a it it Is always hot in that country and especially so when it Is midwinter inter with us it to Is a land of costly woods woodi of them and of lovely flowers it Is one of the nn na alvo homes of hummingbirds and gor geoul butterflies lit in fact nature Is rather more gaudy than nent neat in that part of the world 1 english people settled there from Jani jamaica alca ns as long ago as in 1657 but it was not until over a century later that treaty arrangements range ments with spain ninde made their position secure as still inhabitants of the british empire A good deal of the country Is mars marshland bland but tile the cockscomb mountains which run into honduras from guatemala are in places 2000 21 feet high and wherever really try dry land Is found the ground Is wonderfully der fully fertile mahogany aws there to perfection so does docs the log wood used for dyeing also plantains plant ains and coconuts the ca capital pital belize Is ig the chief port of entry and tho the center of the rubber industry chich which depends upon regularly tended plantations |