New Britain herald., 1927-09-23
CAPE VERDE ISLE
 BUSINESS GOOD
Industry and Trade There Seems
 to Gain

Washington, D. C, Sept. o3-The Cape Verde Islands, famous as one Of the stopping places ot Tasco da Cana during his poch-makine voy- age 10 India, and more recently in the spotlight q. I landing place for transatlantic flyers. has developed i's trade 10 a point where the state department has announced the es- tablishment Of q new consulate on the Island Of Sac Vincent (st. Vim cent
 St. Vincent is one Of the fourteen islands of the Cape Verde group which form a crescent about 800 miles west of Dakar, the eastern nlost city on the African continent Porto Grands, capital Of St Vincent and one Of the few large port towns in the Islands, is the proha ble loca- ton Q. the new office Porto Grande ls built in we'll protected location with high mountains at its hack and in iron. the massive height Of 'he Island O. st Anthony almost shutting !n a wide, deep harbor from th. sea.
 Smaller Than To. Angeles
 The fourteen islands could bs placed on the state of Rhode Is- land and only q few rugged edges would extend over the borders, Sac Thlago (s,. Iago). the largest ot the Cape Nerde., is slightly smaller in area than tn. city ot Los Angeles, rhil. ,he smallest island is meas ur.d by square yards.
 The governor general appointed by the Portuguese government, re- sides at Porto Praia on St. Jago. city 0. about $500 inhabitants, most Of rhom are negroes Porto Prala rivals Porto Grand. in commercial importance. Unlike the St Vincent capital, which IS built from tideTa- ter up the mountainside, Porto Praia occupies a tableland about 100 feet above the waters edge. with three roads approaching 1t from red painted docks II was at St Jago that Vasco da Cana stopped before sailing around the Cape ot Good Hope.
 Fresh Water Lu,ury
 All the larger islands are inha bi- ted, the majority Of the population being auartered in compactly built villages and towns built in small re- eesses in the steep mounrainsides, overlooking the sea, But 1t is in tho interior of the larger islands that ono finds the real native life of the Cape Nerdes, r. is said that the ancestors Of these people of the interior once lived along the sea shore. But for a hundred years aft CT Spain took control Of the is lands, the Cape Nerdes were plun- dered by pirates. During this pc riod the inhabitants fled 10 the val loys from which they seldom emerg- d except to trade. Most Of these vollcy people re black but one oft ca notes Portuguese features. They snnak 8 poor quality Portuguese hi"h is difficult for the European tp understand.
 Like Greenland. the name Cape Verde is deceptive, IT was taken from Cape Verde, Africa, and in ~,cl English means Green Cape hit there is little on the islands to sugg that the Cane Nerdes de serve 10 he called Cape Green Is lands Here and there along the shore and in 2. few interior valleys are patches of fertile land, but rocks and sand claim the greater portion of the area. Fresh water has always been a luXury, lack of which has caused serious famines in the past
 That the natives make the best Of their barren islands is indicated by the fact that they produce indi- go. coffee, caster beans. fruits, to-