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,  cornmeal,
  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  coasting ­
  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  population ­
  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  imports ­
  of  $1,000,000  in  1913  are  chiefly  ac ­