Chapter I: Front Matter

CUBA AND HER PEOPLE OF TO-DAY

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Panama and the Canal $3.00
BY FORBES LINDSAY

Cuba and Her People of To-day 3.00
BY FORBES LINDSAY

Brazil and Her People of To-day 3.00
BY NEVIN O. WINTER

Guatemala and Her People of To-day 3.00
BY NEVIN O. WINTER

Mexico and Her People of To-day 3.00
BY NEVIN O. WINTER

Argentina and Her People of To-day 3.00
BY NEVIN O. WINTER

Bohemia and the Čechs 3.00
BY WILL S. MONROE

In Viking Land. Norway: Its Peoples,
Its Fjords and Its Fjelds 3.00
BY WILL S. MONROE

Turkey and the Turks 3.00
BY WILL S. MONROE

Sicily, the Garden of the Mediterranean 3.00
BY WILL S. MONROE

In Wildest Africa 3.00
BY PETER MACQUEEN

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CUBA AND HER
PEOPLE OF
TO-DAY

AN ACCOUNT OF THE
HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF THE ISLAND
PREVIOUS TO ITS INDEPENDENCE; A DESCRIPTION
OF ITS PHYSICAL FEATURES;
A STUDY OF ITS PEOPLE; AND, IN PARTICULAR,
AN EXAMINATION OF ITS PRESENT
POLITICAL CONDITIONS, ITS INDUSTRIES,
NATURAL RESOURCES, AND PROSPECTS;
TOGETHER WITH INFORMATION
AND SUGGESTIONS DESIGNED TO AID
THE PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR OR SETTLER

BY
FORBES LINDSAY
Author of “Panama and the Canal,” etc.

ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL AND SELECTED
PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR

BOSTON L. C. PAGE
AND COMPANY MDCCCCXI

_Copyright, 1911_
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

First Impression, November, 1911

_Electrotyped and Printed by
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A._

TO

Henry M. Flagler, Esquire,

WHOSE INDOMITABLE ENERGY AND SPLENDID ENTERPRISE WILL
SHORTLY BRING CUBA INTO RAILROAD COMMUNICATION
WITH THE UNITED STATES, THIS VOLUME IS
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, AS A
SLIGHT TOKEN OF THE
ADMIRATION OF THE
AUTHOR.