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Silk Culture. The Island once covered by Forests. No Poisonous Reptiles. The Cuban Bloodhound. Hotbed of African Slavery. Spain's Disregard of Solemn Treaties. The Coolie System of Slavery. Ah-Lee draws a Prize. Native African Races. Negroes buying their Freedom. Laws favoring the Slaves. Example of St. Domingo. General Emancipation.
The agents tried to pay Ah-Lee in Cuban currency, but he was too smart for them, and showed them their own announcement promising to cash all prizes, with the usual discount, in gold. So Ah-Lee got his prize finally in gold.
A thrifty Chinaman, for there are some such even in Havana, bearing the characteristic name of Ah-Lee, connected with a bricabrac store on the Calzada de la Reina, held a lucky number in the lottery drawn during our brief stay at the Hotel Telegrafo. When the prizes were announced, he found that he was entitled to five hundred dollars.
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