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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



(P> International Film Company 



american sailors eating coconuts and fresh fruit in the shade of palm 



trees: cuba 



The island is so long that the distance between Cape Maisi, at the eastern end. and Cape 

 San Antonio, at the western end, is as great as that from the New Jersey coast to the Illinois 

 boundary. Yet at no point in the entire country can one get more than forty miles away 

 from the sea (see text, page 5). 



