Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . Matanzas Pinar del Rio Puerto Principe Santa Clara Santiago de Cuba 275,413 253,385 47-54 Notice that the proportion of males is larger in the whiterace than in the coloured. The enumeration of the popula-tion of Cuba in 1877 resulted as follows: CENSUS OF YEAR 1877 Province. Number ofInhabitants. Density. Percentage. Whites. Coloured. Whites. Coloured. Whites. Coloure
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . Matanzas Pinar del Rio Puerto Principe Santa Clara Santiago de Cuba 275,413 253,385 47-54 Notice that the proportion of males is larger in the whiterace than in the coloured. The enumeration of the popula-tion of Cuba in 1877 resulted as follows: CENSUS OF YEAR 1877 Province. Number ofInhabitants. Density. Percentage. Whites. Coloured. Whites. Coloured. Whites. Coloured. Havana 321,951160,806128,98657,692219,294143,706 H3,945 122,315 53,218 u,553102,103 86,115 37-5919. Matanzas Pinar del Rio Puerto Principe Santa Clara Santiago de 1,032,435 489,249 3-99 1,521,684 IOO The increase in population from 1877 to 1887 was 110,003individuals, or per cent. The number of whites in-creased 70,454; the number of coloured people increased39,549. Asiatics in this census, numbering 43,811, wereincluded with the CUBAN QUARACHERO (MINSTREL). The Population of Cuba 97 There are four classes of Cuban residents: the whites, thecoloured, the blacks, and the Chinese. The whites comprise native Cubans, Spaniards, and for-eigners; a certain proportion in the interior being CanaryIslanders, who are fitted by constitution, habits, and tastesfor farm work. The native Cuban is usually bright, and is gifted particu-larly with a remarkable memory. Children are very preco-cious, and, when given educational advantages, they developinto men of no mean ability. In addition to the intelligentCubans residing in the Island, whose reputation in differentbranches of learning extends abroad, there are many whohave attained honourable distinction in foreign countries, incompetition with others whose advantages were conspicu-ously
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