. A complete geography. Upon the Mllslopes much coffee is pro-duced, and some tea and cocoa. The coffeeplant not only requires a good soil, but mustbe grown in the shade of trees. Spices, in-cluding nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger, areproducts of the West Indies, also pepper,cardamom, vanilla, and pimento or fruits as bananas, oranges, limes, pine-apples, and cocoanuts are also produced; but, because of the poor market,in small quantities. In the future much more attention will doubtless bepaid to fruit raising. Indeed, both Cuba and Porto Rico will probably Fig. Cuban boat. 1
. A complete geography. Upon the Mllslopes much coffee is pro-duced, and some tea and cocoa. The coffeeplant not only requires a good soil, but mustbe grown in the shade of trees. Spices, in-cluding nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger, areproducts of the West Indies, also pepper,cardamom, vanilla, and pimento or fruits as bananas, oranges, limes, pine-apples, and cocoanuts are also produced; but, because of the poor market,in small quantities. In the future much more attention will doubtless bepaid to fruit raising. Indeed, both Cuba and Porto Rico will probably Fig. Cuban boat. 18i NORTH AMERICA. Fig. harbor of Havana. now become not only winter gardens, supplying fruit and vegetables tothe United States, but also important winter resorts. The United States has been able to raise almost all products ofthe soil that we have required, with the exception of the tropicaland semi-tropical crops, such as tea, rice, coffee, sugar, spices, and tropical fruits; andour newly acquiredislands are capable ofsuppljdng even Inhabitants.—Portions of Cuba andPorto Rico are denselypopulated, although inCubas war with Spainthousands upon thou-sands of the inhabi-tants were killed inbattle or starved todeath. Property has been destroyed, and the island dcA^astated tosuch an extent that it will be many years before a full tide ofprosperity returns-Many of the natives are of mixed blood. The aborigines did notprove good slaves to their Spanish conquerors, and negro slavesAvere brought from Africa. Therefore, while pure-blooded Span-iards are numerous, many of the inhabitants o
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