202 SELLING LATIN AMERICA 
This group imports about $2,000,000, 
$500,000 coming from the United States, 
$250,000 from Holland and the remainder 
from the leading European nations. They 
require flour, rice, beans, onions, garlic, corn- 
meal, condensed milk, medicines, oil, candles, 
tinned foods, soups, hams, cottons, shoes and 
hardware. 
No duty or fees for travelers are charged. 
The “Red D” (American) Steamship Line 
has a ship a week from New York to Curasao, 
and the other islands can be reached by coast 
ing boats from this port. 
The Danish West Indies consist of three 
small islands in the Caribbean sea, St. 
Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, their total 
area being 138 square miles, with a popula 
tion of about 25,000, mostly negroes, a few 
mulattoes and some European officials. St. 
Thomas, the largest in the group and about 
26 miles from Fajardo, Porto Rico, is used 
as a coaling station for Hamburg-American 
ships in the Latin American trade. Its im 
ports of $1,000,000 in 1913 are chiefly ac