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Image 1 of British Honduras. HANDBOOKS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICENo 133 D 6 G7 no 133 Copy 2 BRITISH HONDURAS LONDON PUBLISHED BY HM STATIONERY OFFICE 1920- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 2 of British Honduras. Book- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 3 of British Honduras.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 4 of British Honduras.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 5 of British Honduras.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 7 of British Honduras. 53 HANDBOOKS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICENo 133 07 07 BRITISH HONDURAS LONDON PUBLISHED BY HM STATIONERY OFFICE 1920- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 8 of British Honduras.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 9 of British Honduras. roas EDITORIAL NOTE s Iir the spring of 1917 the Foreign Office in connexion with the preparation which they were making for the work of the Peace Conference established a special section…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 10 of British Honduras. It must be understood that although the series of volumes was prepared under the authority and is now issued with the sanction of the Foreign Office that Office is not to be…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 11 of British Honduras. British Honduras J TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE I GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL 1 Position and Frontiers 1 2 Surface Coast Islands and River System Surface 1 Coast and Islands 2 River System…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 12 of British Honduras. TABLE OF CONTENTS 0133 PAGE 2 External а Ports 23 б Shipping Lines 25 c Cable and Wireless Communication 27 B Industry 1 Labour a Supply 27 b Labour Conditions 29 2…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 13 of British Honduras. British l Honduras J TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 2 Foreign 48 a Exports 49 b Imports 50 c Customs and Tariffs 51 D Finance 1 Public Finance 52 2 Currency 53 3…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 14 of British Honduras.- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 15 of British Honduras. British i Honduras J I GEOGRAPHY PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL 1 Position and Frontiers The Colony of British Honduras extends including islands between latitude 15 53 and 18 30 north and longitude 87…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 16 of British Honduras. 2 GEOGRAPHY No 133 these is the Cockscomb range which is characterized by very sharp volcanic cones of jagged outline the highest being Victoria Peak 3700 ft Beyond the Cockscomb Mountains is…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 17 of British Honduras. Honduras SURFACE COAST RIVERS The whole coast is fringed by a series of small low islands called cays resembling one another so much that navigation is sometimes attended with very great danger…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 18 of British Honduras. 4 GEOGRAPHY No 133 the most dangerous bar in the Colony and the Mullins River is very deep and slow North Stann 1 Creek is about 35 miles long The Sittee is…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 19 of British Honduras. 5 Honduras CLIMATE HEALTH RACE of rainy days 80 1913 had the largest 167 But in 1861 i53 inches 38816 cm fell in 67 days while in 1867 there were only 26…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 20 of British Honduras. 6 GEOGRAPHY No 133 element is descended from the English buccaneers of the seventeenth century reinforced by Scotch and German mercantile elements with some mixture of Spanish from the neighbouring republics and…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 21 of British Honduras. Hoiiduras RACE POPULATION 7 of the Colony is very sparsely peopled and considerable tracts of the interior are uninhabited The white population amounts to hut a few hundreds The English do not…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 22 of British Honduras. No 133 II POLITICAL HISTORY Chronological Summary 1650 circa First British connexion with Yucatan coast 1670 First AngloSpanish treaty affecting British wood cutters 1713 Treaty of 1670 confirmed by Treaty of Utrecht…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 23 of British Honduras. Honduras DEALINGS WITH SPAIN 9 de Terminos and other places not inhabited by Spaniards in the province of Yucatan either through right sufferance or indulgence the provisions of the treaty applied and…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 24 of British Honduras. 10 HISTORY No 133 having been formed and extended under that pretence upon the Spanish continent it is expressly agreed that His Britannic Majestys subjects shall have the right of cutting loading…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 25 of British Honduras. British 1 HondurasJ SPANISH CLAIMS 11 British Government at Belize but the settlers still held their public meetings or general assemblies and elected their magistrates down to about 1830 In 1853 the…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 26 of British Honduras. 12 HISTORY No 133 as the Mosquito Coast farther south were also claimed as being under British sovereignty or British protec tion The Bay Islands Ruatan Bonacca c were erected into a…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 27 of British Honduras. 5SS5 RELATIONS WITH US 13 to the future canal the British Government was unwilling to abandon its claims to the Mosquito Coast but had no desire to thwart the Americans in their…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 28 of British Honduras. 14 HISTORY Ho 133 According to Reverdy Johnson the American Attorney General the treaty did effectually to all intents and purposes disown the British Protectorate in Central America and the Mosquito Coast…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 29 of British Honduras. Honduras THE MOSQUITO COAST 15 The British Government had for several years endeavoured to suit its engagements to the altered circumstances of the case But every proposal had encountered some insuperable obstacle…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 30 of British Honduras. 16 HISTORY No 133 herself within the limits of the original territory of Belize but the abandonment by Great Britain of the Mosquito Coast and the Bay Islands served in great measure…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 31 of British Honduras. British 1 Honduras 17 III SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS ReligiousMore than half of the population is Roman Catholic but the Church of England has a considerable number of adherents and there is…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 32 of British Honduras. No 133 IV ECONOMIC CONDITIONS A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION 1 Internal a Roads The roads as a rule are very inadequate Few of them are fit for vehicular traffic and those marked…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 33 of British Honduras. Honduras ROADS RIVERS 19 however there is practically no internal communica tion Roadwork consists in opening up and clearing tracks through the bush and trenching and filling up swampy portions The vitality…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 34 of British Honduras. 20 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS Bo 133 has a depth of 69 ft it is 187 ft wide at Orange Walk 121 ft at Belize Bridge and 600 ft at Haulover It is navigable…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 35 of British Honduras. Honduras RIVERS AND CANALS RAILWAYS 21 This canal was cut by a grabdredger and the exca vated material has been used for roadmaking The canal enables doreys to enter the Sibun River…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 36 of British Honduras. 22 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 133 length has been built The work of reconstruction was concluded in 1913 Fiftytwo bridges were built with steel and plate girders and concrete viaducts and culverts Ballasting…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 37 of British Honduras. Honduras RAILWAYS POSTS PORTS 23 A telegraph and telephone line runs from Belize to Punta Gorda in the extreme south and another from Belize to Cayo There is a telephone system in…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 38 of British Honduras. 24 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 133 depth from 60 to 197 ft The harbour itself is about 11 miles in width from east to west and 3 to 5 miles in length it…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 39 of British Honduras. British HondurasJ PORTS SHIPPING 25 for large boats but there is anchorage in 4 fathoms half a mile east of the entrance Punta Gorda at the north west end of the Gulf…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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Image 40 of British Honduras. 26 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS No 133 sailing are fixed and notified before the beginning of the year This certainty much stimulates the traffic The voyage takes about 26 days Scrutton Sons Company send…- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
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