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THE CUBA REVIEW 



The !Moata of Cabauas Fortress. See description on previous page. 



200.000 SPANIARDS IN CUBA 



There are about 200,000 Spaniards remain- 

 ing in Cuba, and the mercantile business of 

 the country is largely conducted in the 

 northern part by these people, and the native 

 Cubans seem to bear the same relation to 

 the Spaniard that the native American does 

 to the old English settlers. They are gen- 

 erally men who are in the learned professions, 

 as doctors, lawyers or politicians. These 

 gentlemen seem to look down upon the Span- 

 iards as being a lower caste since they are 

 engaged in trade. Of course, there is a large 

 body of half-blood people w^ho are perhaps 

 the "most dangerous element in Cuba, as they 

 are almost universally in the political business 

 and I came to the conclusion that Tammany 

 would have to enter an infant class in then- 

 school, for from all the accounts which I re- 

 ceived from people dealing with these gentry, 

 they showed an extraordinary ingenuity in 

 extracting plunder from people who had any- 

 thing to with them. Alanana, or to-morrow, 

 is the great weapon with which the patience 

 of the foreigner is worn out, and his shekels 

 extracted in order to promote the progress of 

 any business. The present president of the 

 republic, however, is a very intelligent and 

 highly educated man, a gi'aduate of Cornell, 

 and seems to have surrounded himself, so far 

 as possible, with men of peaceable character 



and patriotic purposes. It is, however, quite 

 apparent that quite a long period of self- 

 government will be necessary before Cuba 

 becomes well settled in democratic practice. — 

 Hartford Times. 



BIRDS OF THE SOUTH COAST 



A trip of some Isle of Pines explorers to 

 the south coast of the island, in the search 

 for birds, is described as follows: 



On the way across the island, to Westport, 

 where they were to embark, birds were scarce. 

 Nevertheless, the following were noted from 

 the auto: Cuban meadowlark, quail, king- 

 bird, sparrow, hawk, red-belhed woodpecker, 

 green woodpecker, gi-ackle, green parrot and 

 a red-legged thrush. Along the approach 

 to the dock a Cuban gi-een heron and a spotted 

 sandpiper were seen. 



On the trip down Pide River the only 

 birds that were identified were a West Indian 

 mom-ning dove, a great blue heron and a 

 mangi-ove warbler. The last is in reahty the 

 Cuban yellow warbler (Dendrocia petechia 

 gundlachi). It is a small bird about five 

 inches long; crown yellow, back yellowish- 

 green, below yellow streaked with brown. 

 It is often seen in the mangrove swamps 

 near the coast. . 



As soon as we got to sea the Florida 



