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OCR: a iti occupies the forested west- rn end of the island of ispaniola (the Dominican Ree H upies the island's eastern two public occ Cost of it is mountainous, punc- thirds). M h great valleys and plateaus. By tuated with Hards it is the poorest nation in most stand n hemisphere. the wester ng with the arrival of Columbus Beginnin Haiti has been the scene of al- in 1492, H lieved tragedy. Spanish settlers most unre ed the original inhabitants, the slaughtere dians; later the French tumed Arawak In e largest slave colony in the it into the A slave revolt in 1804 made Americas. econd American nation to gain Haiti the s ence (and the oldest black re- independe he world). But no stable and public in