. The Cuba review. 16 THE CU r. A REVIEW. Building a Cuban fishing sloop at Batabano. While no difficulty is experienced by Cubans in designing and building these coasting vessels, a steamboat even of small tonnage offers more difficulties and plans giving all details must be provided. Hotel at Camp Columbia. Mr. L. F. Lorce, president of the Dela- ware & Company, who was for some time recently in Cuba, regards the future of the Island as a great com- mercial factor. Havana especially ap- pealed to him as a most attractive win- ter resort. In this connection he sug- gested the buil
. The Cuba review. 16 THE CU r. A REVIEW. Building a Cuban fishing sloop at Batabano. While no difficulty is experienced by Cubans in designing and building these coasting vessels, a steamboat even of small tonnage offers more difficulties and plans giving all details must be provided. Hotel at Camp Columbia. Mr. L. F. Lorce, president of the Dela- ware & Company, who was for some time recently in Cuba, regards the future of the Island as a great com- mercial factor. Havana especially ap- pealed to him as a most attractive win- ter resort. In this connection he sug- gested the building of a large hotel on the lines of those in Florida, outside of the city. To a Havana Post representa- tive he said: "Out in the vicinity of Camp Columbia there are any number of places that would be suitable for this. The Gulf of Mexico stretches out to the west ana north and the gently undulating country surrounds it on the other sides. Ofi to the west lie the Plaza and the club house of the Havana Yacht Club. In such surroundings life would be most at- tractive and a hotel which would ofl^er accommodations of 400 or 500 rooms there would be just the ; Fauna of Cuba. The fauna is somewhat limited. The deer, though not a native, flourishes and multiplies. The so-called wild boar, hog and cat, are simply domestic animals gone wild. Rabbits abound and are de- structive to vegetation, as in other lands. The only native animal is the jutia or hutia, rat-like in form and habit, w^ith a l)ody from sixteen to eighteen inches long. Although it is used for food, there has never been anj' urgent demand for it in the market. The swampy places give food and shel- ter to crocodiles and caymans, which often attain enormous size, but are little feared by the natives. There are also chameleons, small lizards, tree toads and iguanas. Of the reptiles, poisonous or otherwise, the maia, ten to fourteen feet long, is semi-domestic, being fond of ensconcing itself in the thatched
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