CHAPTER VIII.

THE CUBANS.

Good People to "Get Along With"--Their Kindness and Courtesy--Harmony and Good Feeling Between the Colonists and Cubans--Their Primitive Style of Living--The Red Soil and Its Stains--Rural Homes--Prevalence of Children, Chickens, and Dogs--Little Girl Dresses for Company With Only a Slipper--Food and Drink of the Cubans--Few Amusements--An Indifferent People--The Country Districts of the Province of Puerto Principe 104