. The Danish West Indies under company rule (1671-1754) . e war of the SpanishSuccession in 1713, and had one hundred and sixty-six planta-tions by the time St. Croix was purchased (1733); while , the permanent occupation of which began in the latterpart of 1716, had one hundred and three plantations surveyed orassigned and nearly three-fourths of them under cultivation atthe same date.^^ The severest drawback, especially when the colony was new,was the inevitable fever, probably mainly malarial. The whiteinhabitants, governors, preachers, planters, seemed helplesswhen the fever was rif
. The Danish West Indies under company rule (1671-1754) . e war of the SpanishSuccession in 1713, and had one hundred and sixty-six planta-tions by the time St. Croix was purchased (1733); while , the permanent occupation of which began in the latterpart of 1716, had one hundred and three plantations surveyed orassigned and nearly three-fourths of them under cultivation atthe same date.^^ The severest drawback, especially when the colony was new,was the inevitable fever, probably mainly malarial. The whiteinhabitants, governors, preachers, planters, seemed helplesswhen the fever was rife; and epidemics of smallpox frequentlycarried off great numbers of slaves. Newly arrived settlers, andparticularly recently imported soldiers, of whose habitualdrunkenness the governors constantly complained, were par- i^Eggers, pp. 51 fE.; Borgesen (Dansk Vestindien), pp. 601 ff.; Borgesen ogPaulsen, Om Vegetationen paa de dansk-vestindinke Oer, pp. 69 £F. - Land-Lister for St. Thomas og St. Croix. The usual size of a plantation was3000 X idOOO INTRODUCTION 9 ticularly liable to attacks of fever, which carried off many ofthem. It is quite likely that the hookworm took its toll ofvictims. A brief resume of that European overseas expansion in whichDenmark-Norway played a small but rather interesting part, isnecessary to the understanding of how that state came to be acolonizing power at all. The two great regions which becamesubject to European commercial and colonial expansion as aresult of the age of discovery were, broadly speaking, Americaand the coasts of southern Asia with those East Indian islandslying to the southeast beyond the Straits of Malacca. To thefirst of these regions, excepting Brazil, the Spaniards claimedexclusive title, while the Portuguese laid claim to Brazil and tothose East Indian localities to which their explorers had firstdiscovered the sea route, and which were for a time to makeLisbon the commercial center of Europe. Of the two regions,the
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