PORTO NOVO

[s. 609] : A town in Dahomey, West under French authority, situated about 50 miles E. of Whydah. Station of the WMS, with (1903) 1 mi ionary, 44 native worlcers, 12 outstations, 31 places of worship, 9 Sunday schools, 7 day schools, and 417 profe ed Christians, of whom 25 are communicants. Africa, PORTO RICO: An island of the West Indies, It contains an area of 3,550 square miles and a population (1899) of 953,243, of whom over 350,000 are negroes or of negro It is described as “the healthiest of all blood. Slavery was abolished by the the Antilles.” National A embly on March 23, 1873. The?rincipal towns, with their population, are: San uan, 32,000; Ponce, 28,000; San Germain, lying east of Haiti. 38,000. Porto Rico became United States territory by The the treaty with Spain December 11, 1898. adjacent islands of the Virgin group are also po e ed by the United States and contain about 6,000 inhabitants. 609