Sugar

tobacco, cochineal, and maize are also produced, but the staple exports are ——— SS f a and a valuable phosphate of lime used as a manure in its natural state, or made to yield valuable superphosphates. The islands of Curacao, Bonaire, Oruba (or Aruba), and Little Curacao, form a Dutch government, the residence of the governor being at Willemstadt. Pop. (1900) 51,693.