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-- THE CIGAR AND TOBACCO -- CIPANGO AND THE GREAT KHAN -- FROM CUBA TO HAYTI -- ITS SHORES AND HARBORS.
When Columbus landed, at some distance farther along the coast, he found the best houses he had yet seen, very large, like pavilions, and very neat within; not in streets but set about here and there. They were all built of palm branches. Here were dogs which never barked (supposed to be the almiqui), wild birds tamed in the houses and "wonderful arrangements of nets,(*) and fish-hooks and fishing apparatus. There were also carved masks and other images. Not a thing was touched. " The inhabitants had fled.