UNLOADING COFFEE FOR TRANSPORTATION: In spite of the destruction wrought by the war, Cuba has many profitable industries that will serve as a base for her future prosperity. None of these, perhaps, are more promising than her coffee plantations, many of which being in the interior passed through the era of disturbance comparatively unharmed. The illustration shows the method of conveying the coffee from the plantation to the warehouses of the merchants at Havana. Click here to enlarge (Cuba, 1898).