RACES. 



Indians to have been much greater than that of 

 negro slaves, purchased at high prices. 1 



In studying the history of Cuba, we perceive that 

 the movement of colonization has been from east to 

 west, and that there, as in all the Spanish colonies, 

 the regions first settled are those which are now least 

 populous. The first settlement of the whites occur- 

 red in 1511, when the Poblador y Conquistador 

 Velasquez, under orders from Don Diego Columbus, 

 landed at Puerto de las Palmas, near Cape Maysi, 

 then called Alpha and Omega, and subjugated the 

 Cacique Hatuey, who had fled from Haiti to the 

 eastern part of Cuba, where he became the chief of 

 a confederation of several smaller native princes. 

 In 1512 the city of Baracoa was founded, and soon 

 afterwards St. Jago de Cuba (1514), Bayamo, Trini- 

 dad, Santi Espiritu, and Havana. The latter city 

 was founded in 1515, on the southern coast of the 

 island, in the partido of Guines, and four years later, 

 was transferred to the Puerto de Carenas, the posi- 

 tion of which, near the entrance of the two Bahama 

 channels (the old and the new), seemed much more 

 favorable for commerce than the coast southeast of 

 Batabano. 



1 Thus in the Spanish version, and in the original French. It is 

 manifestly an arithmetical error. 



