St. Helena.

An island in the South Atlantic, about 1,600 miles from Cape Town. Size, one-third of the Isle of Wight. Now important as a base of operations for missionary and commercial enterprise, and as a health resort for Europeans on the Congo.

Formerly important as a kind of Half-way House for Homeward-bound East Indiamen. Napoleon I. was in captivity here from 1815 to 1821.