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humboldt's cuba. 



districts. 3d. The jurisdiction of Puerto Principe, 

 with seven districts. 4th. The jurisdiction of St. 

 Jago de Cuba, with fifteen districts. The last three 

 comprise the eastern part of the island. 



Free 



Whites. colored. Slaves. Total. 



Western Part : 



Havana and Suburbs 43,000 27,000 28,000 98,000 



Country 5 118,000 15,000 119,000 252,000 



161,000 42,000 147,000 350,000 



Eastern Part : 



St. Jago de Cuba 40,000 38,000 32,000 110,000 



Puerto Principe 38,000 14,000 18,000 70,000 



Cuatro Villas 35,000 20,000 15,000 70,000 



113,000 72,000 65,000 250,000 



Totals ,.. 274,000 114,000 212,000 600.000 



The peaceful relations of the several castes with 

 each other, will always be a political problem of the 

 greatest importance, until such time as a wise legis- 

 lation shall succeed in calming their inveterate 

 hatred, by conceding an equality of civil rights to 

 the oppressed classes. In 1811, the number of 

 whites in the island of Cuba exceeded that of the 

 slaves by 62,000, and was only one-fifth less than the 

 aggregate of free colored and slaves. The whites in 

 the English and French Antilles are nine per cent., 

 while in Cuba they are forty-five per cent, of the 



