196  SELLING  LATIN  AMERICA

Dutch  Guiana,  sometimes  called  Surinam,
is  46,060  square  miles  in  area,  with  a  population ­
  of  87,500,  mostly  Indians,  negroes  and
Javanese,  who  are  brought  out  to  work  the
canefields.  The  proportion  of  white  is  small
and  they  are  mostly  merchants  and  government ­
  employes.
This  country  is  susceptible  of  agricultural
development,  its  products  and  requirements
being  the  same  as  British  Guiana.  Paramaribo, ­
  with  40,000  inhabitants,  is  the  capital
and  only  town  that  will  repay  a  visit.  This
colony  is  not  very  progressive,  and  its  trade  is
decreasing.  In  1912  its  exports  were  $3,500,-000,
  mostly  sugar,  with  some  cocoa,  coffee,
balata,  gold,  bananas  and  rum,  of  which  Holland ­
  took  $1,500,000  worth  and  the  United
States  $900,000.
It  imported  goods  to  the  value  of  $3,000,000,
Holland  supplying  $1,700,000  and  the  United
States  $700,000.
There  are  opportunities  here  but  for  some
reason  the  colony  has  been  neglected,  the  capital, ­
  Paramaribo,  having  no  modern  conveni ­