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Brother  Marie-Victorin on the Varadero beach, with his sisters and a friends, 1939
Exposition Sous le soleil de Cuba [Jardin botanique de Montréal]
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Moa country


Cubans make sugar and molasses from sugar cane.
Rum, one of the country's most famous products, is also made from sugar cane.
Cheers!

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Illustration: Marie-Victorin, Itin?raires

[Moa country]
is a hard land where nothing grows, no grasses and no livestock. It is even difficult to raise poultry here, for the elements needed for eggshells to form are lacking in the soil. The shaded portion on this map indicates a limonite mantle.

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Under the Cuban Sun with Marie-Victorin [Jardin botanique de Montréal]


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