Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) CUBA AND HER PEOPLE OF TO-DAY Uniform with This Volume Panama and the Canal $3.00 BY FORBES LINDSAY Cuba and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY FORBES LINDSAY Brazil and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY NEVIN O. WINTER Guatemala and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY NEVIN O. WINTER Mexico and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY NEVIN O. WINTER Argentina and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY NEVIN O. WINTER Bohemia and the Čechs 3.00 BY WILL S. MONROE In Viking Land. Norway: Its Peoples, Its Fjords and Its Fjelds 3.00 BY WILL S. MONROE Turkey and the Turks 3.00 BY WILL S. MONROE Sicily, the Garden of the Mediterranean 3.00 BY WILL S. MONROE In Wildest Africa 3.00 BY PETER MACQUEEN L. C. PAGE & COMPANY 53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. [Illustration: A CUBAN COURTSHIP. (_See page 92._) ] CUBA AND HER PEOPLE OF TO-DAY AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF THE ISLAND PREVIOUS TO ITS INDEPENDENCE; A DESCRIPTION OF ITS PHYSICAL FEATURES; A STUDY OF ITS PEOPLE; AND, IN PARTICULAR, AN EXAMINATION OF ITS PRESENT POLITICAL CONDITIONS, ITS INDUSTRIES, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND PROSPECTS; TOGETHER WITH INFORMATION AND SUGGESTIONS DESIGNED TO AID THE PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR OR SETTLER BY FORBES LINDSAY Author of “Panama and the Canal,” etc. ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL AND SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR [Illustration] BOSTON L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY MDCCCCXI _Copyright, 1911_ BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) _All rights reserved_ First Impression, November, 1911 _Electrotyped and Printed by THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A._ TO