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Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future

The goodliest land that eye ever saw, the sweetest thing in the world." Such was Columbus' opinion of Cuba, just after he first beheld it, and, after the lapse of four hundred years, the words, making due allowance for the hyperbole of enthusiasm, still hold good. And this, too, in spite of all the trials and tribulations which the fair "Pearl of the Antilles" has been forced to undergo at the hands of her greedy and inhuman masters. The eyes of all the world are now upon this indescribably beautiful and fertile country. Like Andromeda, she has been shuddering and gasping in the power of a. | Cuba by Arthur D. Hall 1 Cuba by Arthur D. Hall The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cuba by Arthur D. Hall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title Cuba Its Past Present and Future Author Arthur D. Hall Release Date September 16 2010 EBook 33739 This file last updated September 29 2010 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CUBA ITS PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE Cuba by Arthur D. Hall 2 Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http www.pgdp.net This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material at the Internet Archive. Illustration book s cover Illustration map of Cuba CUBA ITS PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE BY A. D. HALL Illustration colophon NEW YORK STREET SMITH PUBLISHERS 81 FULTON STREET Copyrighted 1898 By STREET SMITH. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE. 3 CHAPTER PAGE. I. --Discovery and Early History 7 II. --The British Occupation--Spain s Gratitude 19 III. --Cuba s Early Struggles for Liberty 30 IV. --The Ten Years War 43 V. --The Virginius Embroglio 59 VI. --Again Spain s Perfidy 67 VII. --Some Cuban Heroes 73 VIII. --Cuban Tactics 84 IX. --Weyler the Butcher 92 X. --The Crime of the Century 102 XI. --Two Methods of Warfare The Spanish and the Cuban 110 XII. --The Butcher s Campaign 122 XIII. --America s Charity and Spain s Diplomacy 132 XIV. --The Last Days of Peace 144 XV. --The Topography and Resources of Cuba 154 XVI. --What Will the Future Be 170 CUBA ITS PAST PRESENT AND .