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Title: The History of Cuba, vol. 1

Author: Willis Fletcher Johnson

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THE
HISTORY OF CUBA

BY
WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON

A.M., L.H.D.

Author of "A Century of Expansion," "Four Centuries of
the Panama Canal," "America's Foreign Relations"
Honorary Professor of the History of American Foreign
Relations in New York University

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_

VOLUME ONE

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
B. F. BUCK & COMPANY, INC.
156 FIFTH AVENUE
1920

Copyright, 1920,

BY CENTURY HISTORY CO.

_All rights reserved_

ENTERED AT STATIONERS HALL

LONDON, ENGLAND.

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

TO

THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA

CONCEIVED BY
JOSE MARTI

ESTABLISHED BY
THOMAS ESTRADA PALMA

VINDICATED BY
MARIO G. MENOCAL

PREFACE

It is my purpose in these volumes to write a History of Cuba. The title
may imply either the land and its natural conditions, or the people and
the nation which inhabit it. It in fact implies both, and to both I
shall address myself, though it will appropriately be with the latter
rather than with the former that the narrative will be most concerned.
For it is with Cuba as with other countries: In the last supreme
analysis the people make the history of the land. Apart from the people,
it is true, the Island of Cuba is of unusual interest. There are few
countries of similar extent comparable with it in native variety, charm
and wealth. The