See also:

• BAY

BAY ISLANDS (IsLAS DE LA See also:

• BAHIA

BAHIA)  , a small See also:

• ARCHIPELAGO

archipelago in the Caribbean See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea, off the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

• HONDURAS

Honduras, of which See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country it forms an administrative See also:

• DISTRICT

district . Pop . (1905) about 3000, including 500 See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians . The archipelago consists of Roatan or Ruatan, Guanaja or Bonacca, Utilla, Barbareta, See also:

• HELENA
• HELENA, ST (c. 247-c. 327)

Helena, See also:

• MORAT (Ger. Murten)

Morat, the Puercos or Hog Islands, and many cays or islets . The See also:

• BAY

Bay Islands have a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• SOIL

soil, a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• CLIMATE

climate and an advantageous position . Roatan, the largest, is about 30 M. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long by, 9 m. broad, with mountains rising to the height of 900 ft., covered with valuable See also:

• WOODS, LEONARD (1774-1854)
• WOODS, SIR ALBERT (1816-1904)

woods and abounding with See also:

• DEER (O. E. rigor, dfor, a common Teutonic word, meaning a wild animal, cf. Ger. Tier, Du. dier, &c., probably from a root dhus-, to breathe)
• DEER, CHINESE

deer and See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild hogs . Its See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief towns are Coxen Hole and Puerto Real . Its See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade is chiefly with New See also:

• ORLEANS
• ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
• ORLEANS, DUKES OF
• ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
• ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
• ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
• ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
• ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
• ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
• ORLEANS, PHILIP I
• ORLEANS, PHILIP II

Orleans in plantains, See also:

• COCOA

cocoa-nuts, pineapples and other See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit . Guanaja is 9 M. long by 5 m. broad; it lies 15 M . E.N.E. of Roatan . Wild hogs abound in its thickly-wooded See also:

• LIMESTONE

limestone hills . The other islands are comparatively small, and may, in some cases, be regarded as detached parts of Roatan, with which they are connected by reefs .

Guanaja was discovered in 1502 by See also:

• COLUMBUS
• COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER [in Spanish CRISTOBAL COLON] (c. 1446, or perhaps rather 1451, -15o6)

Columbus, but the islands were not colonized until the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, when they were occupied by See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• LOGWOOD (so called from the form in which it is imported)

logwood cutters from See also:

• BELIZE, or BALIZE

Belize, and pearlers from the See also:

• MOSQUITO (Span. mosquito, a gnat, diminutive of mosca, a fly)

Mosquito Coast . Forts were built on Roatan in 1742, but abandoned in 1749 . In 1852 the islands were annexed by See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain . In 1859 they were ceded to Honduras .