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Show Rich but Unhealthy The climate of British Honduras la hot, moist and generally unhealthy for foreigners. The coast li, as a rule low and swampy and 'a large purt of the interior la covered with forests yielding large quantities of mahogany and logwood. Over 60,000 acres are under cultivation and yield fruits, rubber, rub-ber, coffee, etc. The colony Is administered ad-ministered by a governor, and has an executive and It-KlnlHtlve council. United States gold currency was adopted adopt-ed as legal tender lu 1894. The majority ma-jority of the population la composed of negroes, muluttoes and Indluns. |