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good
grass, however,
but I saw no
enough
for
mnumerable kine
After the third mile,
cattle.
but, en revanche, the
;
deeper
till
the cigars were
we entered a
The scenery charmed
broad belt of luxui'iant cultivation. us
to nibble,
way grew narrower and the all
ruts
but jolted out of our mouths.
Nathless we so endured, though conversation flagged, as we
had
to speak with great caution for fear of biting off the
ends of our tongues in the fearful bumpings that ensued. After
five
miles or so of this agony,
we
arrived
at
Las
Tinajas, "the large-mouthed Jars," a hacienda so-called,
belonging to the Senores Mesa. coffee,
The
thing that struck
first
flies,
vertical sun, the
me
fumes of rum, and the millions
which improve each shiiung hour by continually
forth to work, are not
There were a attitude
scale.
in this tour of inspection
perching on the noses of those
to
alighted, drank
and saw sugar and rum made on a grand
was that a of
Here we
was
who come
beings
conducive to persevering labour.
good number
for the
human
of
men
m the factory,
but
theii"
most part that of repose, and they seemed
have sought out the
shadiest nooks
possible,
the
at
fm'thest attainable distance from the cocina and alembique
the boilers and distillery.
Even
the steam-engme,
made
at
Glasgow, was doing nothing, with its 16-horse power, to reimburse
its
The shed
master for the 1200 dollars he had laid out on
in
which
it
stood must have been 300 feet long,
and I counted about a hundred enormous vats in
The tenant
told
this cane farm.
breakfast was
me
it
for
rum.
he paid 450 dollars a month as rent for
He had bemg
it.
a nice
prepared.
little
On
cottage, in
asking him
which our
how he had
escaped dming the war, he shook his head, and replied that the Federals had killed some of his labom'ers, had stolen
all