204 SELLING LATIN AMERICA 
portunities from San Juan, Porto Rico, to 
get to St. Thomas. 
These people buy from us coal, food stuffs, 
flour, dried fish, candles, oil, rice, onions, 
beans, shoes, clothing, boots, medicines, soaps 
and other staples. 
The French islands in the Caribbean Sea 
are Martinique and Guadeloupe, and they im 
port their requirements from the mother coun 
try, owing to the fact that such goods pay no 
duties. The town of St. Pierre, Martinique, 
with its entire population of 70,000 inhabi 
tants was totally destroyed by an eruption 
from the extinct volcanoe of Mt. Pelee, May 
8, 1902. Josephine, the first wife of the Great 
Napoleon, was born at Fort de France, Mar 
tinique. 
We sell these colonies some food stuffs, oils 
and necessities, our yearly sales to Martinique 
being about $700,000 and to Guadeloupe 
about $900,000. 
Martinique raises sugar and manufactures 
rum, her sugar production being about $3,- 
000,000 yearly, and her rum export equalling