Excerpt from Santiago De Cuba: Before the War; Or, Pecuerdos De Santiago Siempre Fiel Isla before the unfortunate animosity between the people inhabiting it had developed into savageness; ere the pomp and pride of Spain had been humbled, and its fruitful lands devastated by the vengeance of its native born inhabitants; when all was fair and quaint and fascinating, with a glamour all its own, I found that this Pearl of the Ah tilles, cradled upon the calm waters of the Caribbean, clothed in the gorgeous verdure of the tropics, and fanned by soft southern breezes, extended a hospitable hand of greet ing to the stranger attracted hither, in search of new and foreign scenes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.