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  interior ­
  transportation.
No  traveler’s  license  is  required.