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The Land Problem in Cuba--Lands Withheld from the Real Workers--Indolence Induced by Lack of Opportunity--Manners and Customs of the Cuban People at the End of the Eighteenth Century--Lawyers and Land Titles--Prices of Land--Live Stock, Sugar and Tobacco--Primitive Sugar Factories--Progress of Agriculture--Obstacles to Economic Progress--Restrictions upon Commerce and Travel.