Show Smallest I African Colony Tiny Country Flies The Flag of Spain WASHINGTON DC D.C. Sixteen years before Columbus sailed out from the Canary Islands into the unknown a Spanish fort was built on the western shoulder of Africa facing the open Atlantic Its name was Santa Cruz del Mar Pequena meaning Holy Cross of the Small Sea The fortress has long since van van- But Spain is still sovereign of a Lilliputian country surrounding the site of her ancient outpost I Smallest colonial territory on the African continent except for tor Isolated Isolated isolated Iso Iso- cities its name in Little more than half hah the size of Rhode Island enclosed on three sides by French Morocco Inti is nonetheless large enough to have havea issued a postage stamp recently Collectors faced with cataloguing a Spanish colonial stamp picturing a wistful long-eared long to fox x may wonder wonder won won- der Where and what Is The territory of Is one of ot the few colonies left of the once world- world flung lun Spanish empire Roughly rectangular rectangular rectangular rec rec- tangular in shape with boundaries still in doubt it extends about 50 miles along the coast of the vast African hump It indents Morocco to a depth of about 15 miles back into the hot rolling foothills of ot the Anti Atlas Mountains |