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Title: Cuba
Its Past, Present, and Future

Author: Arthur D. Hall

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CUBA

ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

BY

A. D. HALL

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NEW YORK

STREET & SMITH, PUBLISHERS

81 FULTON STREET

Copyrighted

1898

By STREET & SMITH.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE.

I.--Discovery and Early History 7

II.--The British Occupation--Spain's Gratitude 19

III.--Cuba's Early Struggles for Liberty 30

IV.--The Ten Years' War 43

V.--The Virginius Embroglio 59

VI.--Again Spain's Perfidy 67

VII.--Some Cuban Heroes 73

VIII.--Cuban Tactics 84

IX.--Weyler the Butcher 92

X.--The Crime of the Century 102

XI.--Two Methods of Warfare; The Spanish and the Cuban 110

XII.--The Butcher's Campaign 122

XIII.--America's Charity and Spain's Diplomacy 132

XIV.--The Last Days of Peace 144

XV.--The Topography and Resources of Cuba 154

XVI.--What Will the Future Be? 170

CUBA ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

CHAPTER I.

DISCOVERY AND EARLY HISTORY.

"The goodliest land that eye e