



uninvnuToa'M swsa on ii- ><HK on. 



Hut little ai 



in a di 



trv* and con 



pro 



Off) r 



er 



ion has apparently bc< 



nment to the source of wealth in 



lores of natural pnMurv lands. 



t \ n> in a tux u|NHi 



oe, consequently the ranchman, 

 >r. may be the owner of extensive 

 h roam countless beads of cattle, 

 and yet hi* wraith not be considered bv the Gov- 

 ernment until he negotiates his stock in the ma 

 Dunne tin- .< upnti-.n of \>\ the in- 



surgents under Maceo. in the present insum 

 it wa* a strange oversight on the part of the aut h<>ri - 

 ties that in a" 

 that | 



t that many heads of cattle roamed over the 

 forest-covered hills and valleys were 

 hog*, which furnished the insurgent in- 

 vader* with an abundance of food. Tin pasture 

 I rinidad are so well adaptel to the 

 raising of horses that it was formerly a common 

 phrase to av that i-v.-n the beggars of Trinidad 

 rode horsbacV. Yet one may search the <* 



wealth. I: .-ti Spiritu*. rv 



ing eastwa- ptotiBM of Santiago, are ex- 



tensive prairies vhioV furnish gracing for great 

 herds of cattle. Some of them are without natural 

 water supply, but they have been provided 

 enormous wells at intervals. These sometimes 

 reach a d.-pth ,-f ::> :mwn 



by a nor in. a device emploved by the Moors when 

 - -ii-i. d Spnin. Thi* consists of a large 

 wood, to rvvoUr by animal j- 



over which passes an endless belt, to which buckets 

 are fa .ittle rang** extend far across 



maguey to Santiago 



;ice, which .tinous and rovrrnd with 



dense forests. As an illustration of tt.. internal 



wraith of Cuba may be cited a t\ -nt' 



\isitl in" thr intrrior of 



-land durinp the prv-T.- tion. The 



family consisted of a mother and her num 

 offspring and her invalid husband. She was 



pendent almost entirely upon the labor of her onrr 

 grown son for subsistence, which was obtained from 

 the land, scarcely more than an 



under cultivation. 



of 



Her possession consist cd of IS 

 caballtria* of land, ami it supplied her with all t he 



of life 



and salL 



Her 



at the flint consisted of 

 beans, rice, honey, wax* 



sweet potatoes, yams, yuccas, banana*, corn, poul- 

 try, pigs, a cow or two, several home, and tobacco. 

 uies of emergency salt, or a fair *ub*titute. 

 could be obtained from 



doth, as was done by the aborigines, is that with 



n spinning and weaving is a lost 



art. Kv.rvthmi; nl--ut the place had a slovenly 



ami abandoned look. The ' 



v naked or clothed in tsttered 



d be obtained from the royal palm by a De- 



an, I the only reason for 



ratting her own cotton and making her own 



what thcv larkM in clothing the? made up r 

 The bodies were literally covered with it, and the 

 mother herself was not much neater in appearance. 

 A huge wooden mortar, merely a section of a boj- 

 knred tog. served as a mill ... 

 tt.fr.x-. thrash beans, etc. 







use for drying coffee and beans and for makiner 

 lariats. Receptacles made of the stem of the royal 

 palm nerved for holding almost anything, from the 



:,- ,-.......-.,... 



wild bamboo served in lieu of buckets to 



were furnisoed by a 



fruit was easily prepared 

 in various abanes for this purpose. The pots 

 the onlt t 



lt things even in use that 



not a 



product of UM immediate vicinity. Even the wife 

 mill for the grinding of cane was constructed of 



t he neiphU.ring woods. 



Cuba pmducee a great variety of fruits and 

 honeys. Oranges, pineapples, and bananas grow 

 :. almost without any attention, and 

 their varieties are not surpassed by ^those growing in 

 an v other part of the world. There are many other 

 deUeioee frutts which have not yet found their war 



