For a time, however, he remained at Baracoa, where the preceding events occurred, and beside mining he was one of the first upon the island to engage in stock raising.
Thus by diligence and judicious investments he was enabled to rise from poverty, as well as from profligacy, and to stand ready to embrace the golden opportunity fortune was now about to offer him.
The soft white snow gently dropped upon the mountain top is forged by alternate thawings and freezings into hard, rasping glaciers.