ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

BY

A. D. HALL

NEW YORK STREET & SMITH, Publishers 81 Fulton Street

Copyrighted 1898 By Street & Smith.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE.

I.—Discovery and Early History7

II.—The British Occupation—Spain's Gratitude19

III.—Cuba's Early Struggles for Liberty30

IV.—The Ten Years' War43

V.—The Virginius Embroglio59

VI.—Again Spain's Perfidy67

VII.—Some Cuban Heroes73

VIII.—Cuban Tactics84

IX.—Weyler the Butcher92

X.—The Crime of the Century102

XI.—Two Methods of Warfare; The Spanish and the Cuban110

XII.—The Butcher's Campaign122

XIII.—America's Charity and Spain's Diplomacy132

XIV.—The Last Days of Peace144

XV.—The Topography and Resources of Cuba154

XVI.—What Will the Future Be?170

CUBA ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE