| Show BRITISH HONDURAS HOT SPOT steam heating plants and heavy overcoats never in demand in that part of the earth british honduras keeps its christinas in ill the shade norn from its position pretty near to the equator ind and wedged in bet between veen yucatan and guatemala it it Is always almaas hot in that country arid and especially so when it is midwinter with ditl I 1 us I 1 it t I 1 is s a laud land of costly woods innumerable of them and of lovely flowers it is one of the native homes of hummingbirds and gorgeous butterflies in fact nature is rather more gaudy than noaten that part of tile the world english people p 0 ople settled there from jamaica Jalli alca as long ago as in 1057 but it was not until over ov c r a century later lat c r that U I 1 a t treaty arrangements range ments with spain made their position secure as baill inhabitants of the british empire A good deal of the country is marshland but the cockscomb mountains which run into non duras from guatemala are in places feet high and wherever really dry land Is found the ground Is wonderfully der fully fertile mahogany grows there to perfection so does docs the logwood used for dyeing also bis plantains plant ains and coconuts the capital belize is the chief port of entry and the center of 0 the rubber industry which depends upon regularly tended plantations |
