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Title: Due South or Cuba Past and Present

Author: Maturin M. Ballou

Release Date: September 29, 2009 [EBook #30130]

Language: English

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DUE SOUTH
OR
CUBA PAST AND PRESENT

BY
MATURIN M. BALLOU
AUTHOR OF "DUE WEST; OR ROUND THE WORLD IN TEN MONTHS"

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1885,
By MATURIN M. BALLOU.

_All rights reserved._

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PREFACE.

The public favor accorded to a late volume by the author of these
pages, entitled "Due West; or Round the World in Ten Months," h