i7o SELLING LATIN AMERICA 
much to modify the heat and add to the agree 
ableness of the temperature. There are two 
seasons, the wet and the dry, the first lasting 
from May to October, and the dry the remain 
der of the year, the average rainfall being fifty- 
four inches. The thermometer ranges from 
6o° to 92 0 Fahrenheit. Since the American in 
vasion when its various cities were cleaned up 
and made sanitary Cuba claims to be the sec 
ond healthiest country in the world, with a 
death rate of 12.69 P er thousand as against 
Australia’s 12.00 per thousand. 
Cuba’s population is 2,457,990, about half of 
whom are white and the remainder black or 
mulattoes. The larger percentage of her 
foreign inhabitants are Spaniards, who elected 
to remain after the close of the war, and 
Americans. 
Her government is of the republican repre 
sentative type, consisting of a President and 
Vice-President, elected for four years, and a 
Senate and House of Representatives, the Con 
stitution being based on that of the United 
States.