200 SELLING LATIN AMERICA 
The Dutch colony of Curagao consists of 
the island of that name, and the adjacent is 
lands of Bonaire, Aruba, St. Eustache, Saba 
and the southern part of St. Martin, the north 
ern portion belonging to France. These is 
lands are small and situated about 60 miles off 
the coast of Venezuela to the north, having a 
total area of 403 square miles, Curagao being 
the largest, and about 30 miles long with an 
area of 210 square miles. They are mostly 
all of coral formation and cannot raise enough 
food for the sustenance of their 50,000 inhabi 
tants, 30,000 of whom reside in Curasao. 
Wilhelmstadt with 25,000 is the capital and 
the residence of the Dutch Governor. It is 
well equipped for coaling and provisioning 
ships, being a free port, and as it is in the 
beaten path of travel from Europe to the Pan 
ama Canal its future seems bright. 
The inhabitants of these islands are poor 
whites who have intermarried and a few 
blacks. Curagao, however, is the home of 
many wealthy Jews, whose forefathers were 
banished from Portugal, these islands having