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When Christopher Columbus first reached Cuba, he found an island that was strikingly different from that of today:
It was covered with trees… and these were lovely and green and different from ours, and each bore its own fruit or flowers. There were many birds, large and small, which sung sweetly, and there were a great number of palms… The vegetation was as abundant as in April and May in Andalusia.1
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Curry-Machado, J. (2011). Introduction. In: Cuban Sugar Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118881_1
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