Canovas, Señor, de Castillo, signs Treaty
of Zanjou, 95.
Cardenas, called the "American City,”
26; its population, 192 (in note).
Carnival, dances given during, 23; the
Havanese Carnival, 139; its end on
Shrove Tuesday, 142.
Caruba tree, the, 190.

Cattle used as horses, 167 (in note).
Cauto River, the, navigable for small
craft, 5.

Caves of the Bellamar, the magnificent,
158.

Cays, the, dangerous to vessels, 5; their
beauty, 174.

Cemeteries, Cuban, 202.

Cereals, exported from Spain, 4.
Cerro, the, 125.

Cespedes, Carlos Manuel, begins the
rebellion, 83; his character, 83; the
burning of his plantation, 85; elected
President of the Cuban Republic, 87;
his tragic death, 91.

Chinese, the wretched condition of the,
in Cuba, 37; the Chinese in the ranks
of the rebels, 37; their religious prac-
tices, 110.

Churches, the, of Havana, 132; music

in the, 138; flirtation in church, 138.
Cienfuegos, the town and harbour, 161;

the surrounding country, 162.
Cipango, Columbus thinks Cuba is, 42.
Cisneros, Miss Evangelina, story of,
II7.

Cisneros y Bétancourt, Don Salvador,

elected President of the Cuban Re-
public, 93.

Clergy, the, of the rebel army, 109.
Cleveland, President, tries to prevent

filibustering expeditions to Cuba, 99.
Climate, 2 (in note); is tolerable, 10;
108.

Coaches in Havana, 131.

Cock-fighting in Cuba, 145; a century
ago, 275.

Cocoa, 4; the plant, 213.

Coffee, was one of the principal products,

3; replaced by the sugar cane, 69; a
coffee plantation, 213.
Columbus, Christopher, first sights the
New World, 38; lands at Fernandina,
39; the wonders he encounters, 39; his
followers grow clamorous for gold,
40; the imaginery Quinsai, 40; he
discovers Cuba, 40; and takes posses-

sion of it in the names of the Spanish
sovereigns, 41; convinced that it is
the Cipango described by Marco Polo,
42; believes Cuba to be a part of the
mainland, 43; said to have landed at
British Honduras, 44; Columbus and
the native, 46; visits the island twice
again, 49; the journeyings of his re-
mains, 133; his enthusiastic descrip-
tion of New Providence, 225; his
birthplace, 237; and parents, 238; the
house in which he was born, 240; his
brothers, 241; first goes to sea, 244;
his education, 244; the sports he
played when a child, 254.
Columbus, Diego, Governor of His-
paniola, 49.

Cook, the Cuban, 124.
Cookery, Cuban, 155.
Coolie labour, 36.

Cuba, Island of, its shape and size, 1;
mountains, 2; position and weather, 2
(in note); coffee and tobacco once the
chief articles of cultivation, 3; French
settlers persuade the Cubans to ex-
tend their sugar plantations, 4; other
products, 4; navigable rivers, 5;
animals and reptiles, 7; disagreeable
insects, 8; flora, 10; climate, 10;
filthy drains, II; its prehistoric in-
habitants, 14; present population and
inhabitants, 16; laws, 17; first ap-
pearance of the Inquisition on the
island, 18; Las Casas gives an im-
petus to education, 18; state of chaos
in, during the Napoleonic period, 19;
overrun by Americans, 19; society in,
23; first sighted by Columbus, 40;
its numerous names, 41 (in note); its
beauties in the eyes of its Discoverer,
41; first circumnavigated, 49; Diego
Velasquez sent to, 49; he founds
Havana, Santiago de Cuba, etc.,
49; Hernando Cortez in, 49; C.
during the buccaneering period, 51;
Drake appears off, 54; prosperity of,
at the beginning of the 18th century,
59; taken by the English under the
Duke of Albemarle in 1762, 60;
large French emigration to, 61 ; ad-
ministration of Don Luis Las Casas,
63; effect of the Revolution upon,
66; bad times for, 68; opening of
the Cuban ports, 68; Cuba la
Sempre Fiel," 69; the beneficent

government of Tacon, 72; the pros-
perity of, declining, 73; the first in-
dications of rebellion, 74; offers to
purchase C., 77; C. in 1860, 79;
the state of the island going from bad
to worse, 81; result of the work of
the Commission appointed to enquire
into the affairs of, 81; Maximo
Gomez, Commander-in-Chief of the
rebel army, 93; U.S. trade with
Cuba, 97, 113; Cuban forests, 104;
economic condition of, 114; C.
Spain's death-trap, 115; description
of Havana, 121; Marianao, 148;
the cafés and restaurants of Cuba,
155; Cienfuegos, 161; Trinidad,
172; backward state of the planta-
tions, 174; Santiago de Cuba, 179;
the newspapers of, 189; a Cuban
plantation, 205; the beauty of the
Cuban night, 212; a Cuban house-
hold, 214.

Cubana, the dance, 141.
Cubanos, or Cubans, filthy habits of the,
II; descent from early Spanish
settlers, 17; characteristics of the, 18;
Voltarian and free-thinking works
read by the, during the Napoleonic
Era, 19; many, educated, 19; the
C. not permitted to share in the
Government until twenty years ago,
20; C. who live for generations on
one plantation, 20; a very domestic
people, 21; isolation of the children,
21; premature marriages, 21; laxity
of morals among the, 21; morbid
literature read by the, 21; the drama,
22; their love of music, 22; the
women, 22; Cuban society, 23; their
large families, 24; the piety of the
women, 24; insincerity of the, in
their religion, 24; their contract with
foreign ideas, 71; their wish to be
represented in the Cortes at Madrid,
74; they petition Queen Isabella to
appoint a Commission to enquire into
the state of the island, 81; C. in
official positions, 112; the Carnival in
Havana, 139; their theatricals, 144;
the Guajiros, 162; early habits of the
C., 168; why they differ with the
Spaniards, 176; a Cuban funeral,
200; a young Cuban lady, 215; their
partiality for smoking, 222.
Cucullo, the, 8.

FAN, the language of the, 138.
Ferdinand the Catholic, his opinion of
the Spanish people, 70.
Fernandina, 39.

Filharmonia Theatre, an incident in the,
76; the first appearance of Mme.
Patti at the, 143.

Fish, 6; tropical, 8.
Flora, beauty and variety of the, 10; in
the forests, 105; some strange flowers,
128; the banyan tree, etc., 148; ferns,
151, 184; the moon-flower, 213; the
silk-cotton-tree, 229; the vegetation of
New Providence, Bahamas, 231.
Florida, failure of Hernando de Soto's
expedition to, 50; given to the English
in exchange for Cuba, 60.
Foreign residents, 20.
Forests, Cuban, 4, 104.
Fossils of prehistoric fauna, 6; of
human remains, 14.

France wishes to purchase Cuba, 77.
French Revolution, effects of the, upon

GALEGOS, immigration into Cuba of, 17
(in note).

Galleria, the, 145.
Gambling in Cuba, 144.
Game, prehistoric, 6.

Garcia, Manuel, the brigand, 101.
Genoa, the birthplace of Columbus, 238;
description and appearance of, 247;
the trade of, 255.

Genoese, the, 252; the piety of the, 253.
Ghosts, Cuban belief in, 198.
Gomez, Maximo, Commander-in-Chief
of the rebel forces, 93; he retires to
San Domingo, 95.

Government of Cuba, 74 (in note); the
bad, 77; its backwardness, 115.
Governors, magnificence of the, 54;
their rapacity, 74.
Grant's Town, 228.
"Green snake," the, 232.
Grenada Gazette, 266, 271.
Guajiros, manners and customs of the,
162; their supposed relationship with
our own costers, 165.
Guanajay, 219.
Guava jelly, 217.

H.

HASKETT, MR ELIAS, Governor of the
Bahamas, 267.

Hatuei, the Cacique, bravery of, 15 (in
note).

Havana, the city of, society in, 23;
founded by Diego Velasquez in 1519,
49; obtains civic rights under Las
Casas, 50; burnt by the buccaneers
in 1528, 53; rebuilt by Hernando de
Soto, 53; sacked afresh by the buc-
caneers, 54; attacked by the Dutch
under Admiral Jollo, who is repulsed,
54; first theatre opened in, 56;
attacked and taken by the English

under the Duke of Albemarle, 1762,
60; Tacon rebuilds part of the town,
72; Diego Velasquez calls Havana
"La llave del Nuevo Mondo," 121
(in note); view of the town from the
harbour, 121; the houses of, 123;
the Cerro, 125; aristocracy of, 126;
cathedral, churches, promenades,
gardens, streets, etc., 126; mode of
shopping in, 127; the Botanical
Gardens, 127; eventide in, 129;
coaches, 131; the churches, 132;
charitable institutions, 137; the
beggars of, 137; the Carnival, 139.
Havana University established in 1721,

18; several chairs created by Las
Casas, 19; almost entirely governed
by Cubans, 112.

Heredia, José Maria, Cuba's greatest
poet, 184.

Holy Week in Santiago, 181.
Horses, scarcity of, in Cuba, 55.
Hotels in Matanzas, the, 152.
Houses of Havana, the, 123; of Mat-
anzas, 157.

Howe, Lord, Governor of Barbadoes,
266.

Hurricanes, 2 (in note).

I.

IGUANA, the harmless but hideous, 9;
roast, 217.

Indian and Colonial Exhibition, 257-
Indigo, 4.

Inhabitants, earliest, 14.

Inquisition, or Holy Office, first intro-
duced into Cuba, 18; used against
State prisoners, 58.

Insects, disagreeable, 8; several insects.
first introduced into Europe from Cuba,
8; the cucullo, 8; mosquitoes, 126.
Institutions, charitable, 137.

J.

JAMAICA, 275; an earthquake, 276.
Jesuits, the education given by the, 19;
persecution of the, 34; their first
appearance in Cuba, 57.

Jewellery, quantity of, in Havana, 125.
Jews, the, in Cuba, 27.

Junta, Gran, in New York, 98; excites
the Americans against Weyler's atro-
cities, 117.

tan, 180.

Negroes introduced to replace the
aborigines, 27; the free blacks, 35;
their liking for gaudy dresses, 35; in
church, 35; their love of music, 36;
rebellion of the, 64; barbaric state
of the rebel negroes, 109; how the
blacks enjoy themselves during the
Carnival in Havana, 140; piety of
the, 142; the n. at the opera, 142;
their superstitions, 193; the n. of the
Bahamas, 224; their cleanly habits,
226; the n. of Monserrat, 261.
Nelson, marriage of Lord, 277.
New Providence, Bahamas, 225;
contrast after Cuba, 226; its vegeta-
tion, 231; the flatness of the island,
233; the heavy dews, 236.
Newspapers, the, of Cuba, 189.

O.

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Louisiana, 62.