The British West Indies

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Excerpt from The British West Indies: Their History, Resources and Progress It has been said that a Preface should be as complete as possible, and also thoroughly explanatory, as it is sometimes the only part of a book which is read. I hope that this last will not be the fate of the following pages, which have been compiled with the object of giving the reader some insight into the history, resources, and progress of our valuable possessions in and adjoining the Caribbean Sea. I have avoided plunging into masses of statistics which are tiresome to many readers and so soon become obsolete, but I have endeavoured to deal with my subject as lightly as circumstances permit. The West Indies have a total population of over 2, 000, 000, or nearly half as much again as that of the Dominion of New Zealand and Newfoundland combined. Yet, in spite of this fact, they have not so far been invited to participate in the councils of the Empire by sending delegates to the Imperial Conference, as New Zealand and Newfoundland have been permitted to do. The reason why the West Indies have in this respect been left out in the cold no doubt hinges to some extent upon the lack of unity which characterised these scattered colonies in the past, and the moral which I have endeavoured to draw in the following pages is the need for greater uniformity in all that concerns the West Indies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.