EUROPEAN POSSESSIONS 211 
ists who visit it and what we purchase from 
and ship to its shores. Its chief exports are 
Easter lilies, potatoes and early vegetables, 
4,000 out of 12,000 acres being under cultiva 
tion, yielding the islands $500,000 yearly. Of 
its $2,775,000 imports this country supplied 
$r,600,000, England $750,000 and Canada 
$350,000. 
None of these islands is self-sustaining. 
They need the necessities of life; flour, food 
stuffs, hams, meats, vegetables, butter, lard, 
candles, oil, shoes, cotton, textiles, drugs, soaps, 
toilet articles, glassware, machinery and corru 
gated iron. 
The Quebec Steamship Company and the 
Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing from 
New York, stop at the leading cities of the 
larger islands, an inter-island steamship serv 
ice being provided for. The Lamport and 
Holt line touches both at Trinidad and Barba 
dos on their northward trip and the United 
Fruit Company boats stop at Jamaica. The 
Hamburg-American Line ships call at many 
of these islands.