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 . uld havebeen as well for the West Indies, if four hundred years ago their shores hadbeen invaded by 1,000,000 tigers. That assertion was quoted by the Madrid press as a specimen misrepre-sentation of the bushwhacker Junta, but is really an understatement of thehorrible truth. The lack of other food resources would have compelled thefour-footed invaders to prey on two-legged game, and for a year or two thenatives would
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 . uld havebeen as well for the West Indies, if four hundred years ago their shores hadbeen invaded by 1,000,000 tigers. That assertion was quoted by the Madrid press as a specimen misrepre-sentation of the bushwhacker Junta, but is really an understatement of thehorrible truth. The lack of other food resources would have compelled thefour-footed invaders to prey on two-legged game, and for a year or two thenatives would have had frequent occasion for indignation meetings in thetree-tops. They would have been driven to the mountains and run fatal risksby visiting the debatable ground of the foot-hills; but at an altitude of 6000feet they would have been safe. The Bengalese immigrants would havestuck to the coast jungles, trying to subsist on manatees and bush-rats, andpining away with homesickness. HORRORS OF THE SPANISH OCCUPATION OF CUBA. 65 Besides, the Cubanos would soon have got over their first panic andsurrounded their reservation with a ring of pitfalls, or even attacked the man-. eaters in their jungle lairs, after the manner of the Sumatra spear spears and pitfalls did not avail them against the two-legged ogres 66 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. who fell upou their wigwams in ever-increasing numbers. As early as 1520—i. less than thirty years after the landing of the first discoverers—theLucayans, or aborigines of Haiti and Cuba, had abandoned their villages andsought salvation in migratory habits, roaming from hill to hill, like hunteddeer. All that could be caught had been put to work in the placer mines,where they could avoid torture only by raking up the stipulated quantumof nuggets, and, consequently, toiled away, like coal miners after an explosionof fire-damp, till they were driven to their slave pens to receive their onedaily meal of parched corn and dish-wate
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