Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . STREET MERCHANTS. IN AND ABOUT THE CITY. 91. TRANSPORTATION, every month. The whole population was infatuated; the poorer classesclubbed together to buy tickets; and even the slaves were purchasers; itis recorded that a band of slaves once drew the first prize of $60,000 andbought their freedom. Another story is told of a man who drew a $10,000prize and bought a cofifee estate, got into a lawsuit over the boundaries,gained his suit,
Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . STREET MERCHANTS. IN AND ABOUT THE CITY. 91. TRANSPORTATION, every month. The whole population was infatuated; the poorer classesclubbed together to buy tickets; and even the slaves were purchasers; itis recorded that a band of slaves once drew the first prize of $60,000 andbought their freedom. Another story is told of a man who drew a $10,000prize and bought a cofifee estate, got into a lawsuit over the boundaries,gained his suit, but had to pay all the expenses, which took the entire$10,000, and was then ready to begin over again. The lottery has beensuppressed in Cuba, but enormous sums of money are now sent to Spainfor investment in the Spanish lotteries. Streets and Paseos.—We shall find the most to interest us in thequaint streets of the old part of the city, the districts which were intra-muros—wnthin the walls. In some of the streets, which are so nar-row that it would be impossible for one team to pass another, vehiclesare permitted to go in one way only, the direction being indicated bythe corner signs Siihida, up
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