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Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
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Publisher: New York, Thompson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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they found no Spaniards. The latter had been effectually scared and hadput the mountains between themselves and the terrible Americans. After a little while a force of about one thousand Cubans under Generalde Castillo arrived from Sigua and greeted the troops with mad enthusiasm.These Cubans were a picturesque crowd, representing all shades of color fromthe fair Castilian to the jet black African, and clothed with a bewildering 31 482 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. diversity of garments, from a pair of drawers and a straw hat to the nattybrown uniform of their army, that would have driven a martinet to the vergeof insanity. They presented an extraordinary contrast to the big, well-fed,well-clothed Anglo-Saxons, who came pouring up in a never-ceasing streamfrom the seashore. Everywhere one turned there were cheerful groups of soldiers. Somehad climbed cocoanut trees, which grew in hundreds on the flat sand swamps,and were feasting on the ripe fruit or drinking the agreeable cooling liquid
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■ ENERALS SHAFTER AND WHEEI^ER AND THEIR STAFFS. from the green nuts. Others sat steaming over little camp-fires, endeavoringto make tea or cook rashers of bacon. An appetizing smell arose from theseal fresco kitchens, and were it not for the piled arms one might almost haveimagined that a big picnic was in progress. The Cubans mingled freely withthe troops and kept up a never-ceasing chatter of conversation, though neitherside could understand the other, while the wives of the native employes of themining company, followed by hordes of small, naked, brown-skinned children,ran about in a state of intense excitement. Altogether, the scene was a INVASION OF CUBA. 483 remarkable one, and its setting of rich tropical vegetation added a noveltyand picturesqueness to it that no written description could convey. The condition of these Cuban patriots with regard to the need of foodwas such as to appeal at once to the heart of the American commander, andorders were issued to furnish them wit

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