America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . of them last year : The prodigality of nature impresses the traveler wher-ever he goes. In the forests he sees ebony, logwood, ironwood, sapan-• wood, and cedar ; between the forests and the gardens, the fruit trees, orange, 262 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. mango, tamarind, guava, and cocoanut; in the cultivated area, sugar-cane,tobacco, rice, hemp, coffee, cotton, bananas, vanilla, cassia, ginger, pepper,indigo, cocoa,
America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . of them last year : The prodigality of nature impresses the traveler wher-ever he goes. In the forests he sees ebony, logwood, ironwood, sapan-• wood, and cedar ; between the forests and the gardens, the fruit trees, orange, 262 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. mango, tamarind, guava, and cocoanut; in the cultivated area, sugar-cane,tobacco, rice, hemp, coffee, cotton, bananas, vanilla, cassia, ginger, pepper,indigo, cocoa, pine-apples, wheat, and corn. The minerals include gold,copper, iron, coal, quicksilver, and saltpeter. From the sea, mother-of-pearl, coral, tortoise shell, and amber are derived. The animal kingdomkeeps pace with the vegetable and the mineral. To say nothing of the waterbuffalo, the most useful beast in the tropics, goats, sheep, swine, and toughlittle ponies, the jungle swarms with such a variety of fauna that the natural-ist finds here a paradise. Snakes and lizards, spiders and ants, tarantulasand crocodiles, abound. Strange to relate, there are few beasts of prey. X OXE OF ALMIRAI, DBWEYS SHIPS. worthy of note. The flora of the country is as rich as the fauna. The phys-ical conformation of Luzon is conducive to extensive cultivation and largepopulation. The high mountain range in the interior gradually lowers tothe sea, making beautiful valleys, rolling hills, upland and lowland, forestand field, drained with numerous rivers, and dotted here and there withlakes. The coast line is irregular, and bays and bayous extend far city of Manila is a typical eastern metropolis. It is on the east sideof a wide bay, which furnishes a tolerable anchorage, but not a secure placeof refuge for shipping. The city itself is, as in most eastern centers of trade,divided into a new and old town, the latter being fortified with walls inmediaeval style, and containing warehouses,
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