Chapter 13

Introduction of Sugar-Cane. -- Sugar Plantations. -- Mode of Manufacture. -- Slaves on the Plantations. -- African Amusements. -- The Grinding Season. -- The Coffee Plantations. -- A Floral Paradise. -- Refugees from San Domingo. -- Interesting Experiments with a Mimosa. -- Three Staple Productions of Cuba. -- Raising Coffee and Tobacco. -- Best Soils for the Tobacco. -- Agricultural Possibilities. -- The Cuban Fire-Fly. -- A Much-Dreaded Insect. -- The Ceiba Tree. -- About Horses and Oxen. 236