An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . of Prince John,son of Ferdinand and Isabella; afterward Fernan-dina; then Santiago and Ave Maria, in deference toI lie patron saint of Spain and the Virgin. The name of Cubais that which it was called by the natives at the time of itsdiscovery. It is about eight hundred miles in length, andabout one hundred and twenty-five in breadth, containing anarea of 47,000 square miles, and
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . of Prince John,son of Ferdinand and Isabella; afterward Fernan-dina; then Santiago and Ave Maria, in deference toI lie patron saint of Spain and the Virgin. The name of Cubais that which it was called by the natives at the time of itsdiscovery. It is about eight hundred miles in length, andabout one hundred and twenty-five in breadth, containing anarea of 47,000 square miles, and a population of more than amillion. The Spaniards made no settlement upon it till 1511, whenDiigo de Velasquez arrived with four ships, and landed on the easternpoint. This district was under the government of a cacique, namedHatney, a native of St. Domingo, who had retired hither to avoid theslavery to which his countrymen were com^emned. Those who couldescape the tyranny of the Spaniards had followed him in his retreat. The Spaniards soon overcame the Indians. Hatney was taken prisoner, and condemned to be burned. Velasquez found no more enemiesAll the caciques hastened to do him homage. After the mines had. 814 THE WEST INDIES. been opened, and it was found that they did not answer, the inhabi-tants of Cuba, having become useless, were exterminated. In 1762 the English took Havana, but it was restored to Spain bythe peace of 1763, and the island has remained a Spanish colony eversince. For a long period Cuba has been iiotorious for the extent towhich the traffic in slaves has been carried on in its several ports. TheEnglish government, after long continued efforts, at last succeeded, in1853, in inducing the Spanish government to pledge itself to adoptmeasures for the suppression of the slave-trade in Cuba; but the trafficcontinues more or less active down to the present time. The import-ance of Cuba, as commanding the approaches to the Gulf of Mexico,has led to several attem
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