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    IN WAR TIME
    BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS



    CUBA

    IN WAR TIME

    BY

    RICHARD HARDING DAVIS


    Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society Author of "Three Gringos in
    Venezuela and Central America," "The Princess Aline," "Gallegher," "Van
    Bibber, and Others," "Dr. Jameson's Raiders," etc., etc.



    ILLUSTRATED BY FREDERIC REMINGTON

    NEW YORK. R. H. RUSSELL 1897 *[Note: Before Spanish-American War]




    CONTENTS


    List of Illustrations

    Author's Note

    Cuba in War Time

    The Fate of the Pacificos

    The Death of Rodriguez

    Along the Trocha

    The Question of Atrocities

    The Right of Search of American Vessels




    ILLUSTRATIONS

    The Death of Rodríguez

    A Spanish Soldier

    Guerrillas with Captured Pacificos

    A Spanish Officer

    Insurgents Firing on Spanish Fort

    Fire and Sword in Cuba

    A Spanish Guerrilla

    Murdering the Cuban Wounded

    Bringing in the Wounded

    Young Spanish Officer

    The Cuban Martyrdom

    Regular Cavalryman--Spanish

    One of the Block Houses

    Spanish Cavalry

    One of the Forts Along the Trocha

    The Trocha

    Spanish Troops in Action

    Amateur Surgery in Cuba

    Scouting Party of Spanish Cavalry

    An Officer of Spanish Guerrillas

    A Spanish Picket Post

    General Weyler in the Field

    Spanish Cavalryman on a Texas Broncho

    For Cuba Libre




    NOTE


    These illustrations were made by Mr. Frederic Remington, from personal
    observation while in Cuba, and from photographs, and descriptions
    furnished by eye-witnesses, and are here reproduced through the
    courtesy of Mr. W. R. Hearst.




    AUTHOR'S NOTE

    After my return from Cuba many people asked me questions concerning the
    situation there, and I noticed that they generally asked the same
    questions. This book has been published with the idea of answering
    those questions as fully as is possible for me to do after a journey
    through the island, during which I traveled in four of the six
    provinces, visiting towns, seaports, plantations and military camps,
    and stopping for several days in all of the chief cities of Cuba, with
    the exception of Santiago and Pinar del Rio.

    Part of this book was published originally in the form of letters from
    Cuba to the _New York Journal_ and in the newspapers of a
    syndicate arranged by the _Journal_; the remainder, which was
    suggested by the questions asked on my return, was written in this
    country, and appears here for the first time.


    RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.




    Cuba In War Time


    When the revolution broke out in Cuba two years ago, the Spaniards at
    once began to build tiny forts, and continued to add to these and
    improve those already built, until now the whole island, which is eight
    hundred miles long and averages eighty miles in width, is studded as
    thickly with these little forts as is the sole of a brogan with iron
    nails. It is necessary to keep the fact of the existence of these forts
    in mind in order to understand the situation in Cuba at the present
    time, as they illustrate the Spanish plan of campaign, and explain why
    the war has dragged on for so long, and why it may continue
    indefinitely.

    The last revolution was organized by the aristocrats; the present one
    is a revolution of the _puebleo_, and, while the principal Cuban
    families are again among the leaders, with them now are the
    representatives of the "plain people," and the cause is now a common
    cause in working for the success of which all classes of Cubans are
    desperately

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