A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . On the Road to The Best OutHt in our Wagon Train. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 89 toward the interior. There are several inter-rupted Hnes of railroad, and burros are usedto a considerable extent by the inlandplanters ; but far the greater part of commu-nication and carriage is accompUshed by wayof the sea. Labor here, as elsewhere in the tropics, isto be had very cheaply, but is uncertain,sluggish, and dishonest. A man for planta-tion work can be hired for almost nothing aday, but he w
A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of BrigGeneral Schwan . On the Road to The Best OutHt in our Wagon Train. YAUCO TO LAS MARIAS 89 toward the interior. There are several inter-rupted Hnes of railroad, and burros are usedto a considerable extent by the inlandplanters ; but far the greater part of commu-nication and carriage is accompUshed by wayof the sea. Labor here, as elsewhere in the tropics, isto be had very cheaply, but is uncertain,sluggish, and dishonest. A man for planta-tion work can be hired for almost nothing aday, but he will not earn even that unless heis driven at the point of a machete. Thelocal peon desires to toil no longer than isnecessary to obtain the bare wherewithal tofill his belly. Then he dreams away theremainder of the day, smoking the eternalcigarette ; perhaps rousing himself sufficientlyto pick the strings of a guitar in the cool ofthe evening—and this, at least, the beggardoes well. He is not at all ambitious toimprove his condition, and he will never beany better than he is to-day. Probably hewill be much worse. He will cut
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