194 SELLING LATIN AMERICA 
for the purpose of working sugar plantations, 
labor being very scarce. There are also about 
5000 Chinese. 
Georgetown with 55,000 inhabitants is the 
capital, the other settlements being Essequibo 
and Berbice. 
The exports which represent the country’s 
products were in 1913: 
Sugar 
Rum 
Gold 
Balata 
Rice 
Diamonds 
Of this the United Kingdom took goods worth 
$9,300,000 and the United States but $125,000. 
During the same period, the imports 
amounted to $7,750,000, England and her 
colonies supplying $5,545,000 and the United 
States $1,800,000. 
This colony has about 100 miles of railway, 
its many rivers and creeks sufficing for its in 
terior transportation. 
No traveler’s license is required.