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Title: Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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Publisher: Havana : New York : Foster & Reynolds
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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copra and other by-products.Second in importance only to the cocoanut trade is the banana industry;some of the choicest bananas exported to the United States go fromRaracoa. From interior plantations the fruit is brought down to thetown on gravity trolley wires. The shops are striking for their sizeand large stocks of goods; Baracoa is the distributing point for the planta-tions all about. The old fort on the hill dates from a very early period;tradition connects it with the founders. The country about Baracoa isextremely rough and rugged; a peculiarity of travel is that men andwomen ride on the backs of oxen. There are numerous cascades in thevicinity and many caverns, in some of which have been found fossilizedremains of animals and men. the human skulls showing the peculiarflattened form due to the artificial modeling of the head, which waspracticed by the aborigines. The illustrations on pages 15S, IGO, 102 and 1G3, are from photographs hycourtesy of the Cuba Bulletin and Review.
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The Cuban Wooden Plow. ^KjRm^S SANTIAGO. Santiago de Cuba, the capital of the Province, is on the south coast,86g miles from Havana by the Cuba Railroad. It is reached also by steam-ship from Havana, and from Batabano and Cienfuegos on the south coast.The approach by water is through a harbor entrance only i8o yards inwidth beneath the battlements of the historic Morro Castle crowning thesummit of a rocky point 200 feet high jutting into the sea on the right ofthe harbor entrance. The seaward side of the promontory is precipitousand impassable; on the inner face a long flight of crumbling steps hewnout of the solid rock leads up from the waters edge. Opposite the Morroon the left is La Socapa. Within the harbor in the rear of the Morrois Estrella Point with its Estrella (Star) Battery. Beyond on the left isCayo Smith—Smith Key—a small island which was once captured andheld by the British. It has a little village of red-tiled houses, with achapel surmounting the hill in the center.

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