196 SELLING LATIN AMERICA 
Dutch Guiana, sometimes called Surinam, 
is 46,060 square miles in area, with a popula 
tion 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 govern 
ment employes. 
This country is susceptible of agricultural 
development, its products and requirements 
being the same as British Guiana. Param 
aribo, 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 Hol 
land 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 capi 
tal, Paramaribo, having no modern conveni