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7 Williams and to enjoy it. A regular war army of red ants invade your lodging and you must perforce arise to make haste to defend yourself if you would desire to be. This fertile soil produces everything in the vegetable line and animal world, and you may imagine yourself in Eden when you very forcibly learn that the trail of the serpent i not yet exterminated, and that your foes are legion. The people of the Island are a languid dreamy sort with whom procrastination is no thief of time, nothing ever moves them, they go on in the grooves worn by their forefathers. Say or do what you will for the poor Cubans, no emotion moves a muscle of their face, or stirs them from the sodden ways in which they move. I had such glorious hopes for them untill I have seen the actual doggedness of these Eastern Cubans. Give them a coin and it seems to inspire no more enthusiasm or confidence than if you should throw them a stone. They are so miserably suspicious of anything good. I am still hopeful that the ugly duckling may turn out a swan and that under the