eat wealth of the
church in Cuba--Influence of the priests, 80

CHAPTER VII.

Nudity of children and slaves--The street of the merchants--The
currency of Cuba--The Spanish army in the island--Enrolment of
blacks--Courage of Spanish troops--Treatment by the government--The
garrote--A military execution--The market-men and their wares--The
milk-man and his mode of supply--Glass windows--Curtains for
doors--The Campo Santo, or burial-place of Havana--Treatment of the
dead--The prison--The fish-market of the capital, 95

CHAPTER VIII.

The story of Marti, the smuggler, 108

CHAPTER IX.

The lottery at Havana--Hospitality of the Spaniards--Flattery--Cuban
ladies--Castilian, Parisian and American politeness--The bonnet in
Cuba--Ladies' dresses--The fan--Jewelry and its wear--Culture of
flowers--Reflections--A most peculiar narcotic--Cost of living on the
island--Guines--The cock-pit--Training of the birds--The garden of the
world--Birds of the tropics--Condition of agriculture--Night-time--The
Southern Cross--Natural resources of Cuba--Her wrongs and oppressions,
116

CHAPTER X.

The volante and its belongings--The ancient town of Regla--The arena
for the bull-fights at Havana--A bull-fight as witnessed by the author
at Regla--A national passion with the Spanish people--Compared with old
Roman sports--Famous bull-fighters--Personal description of Cuban
ladies--Description of the men--Romance and the tropics--The nobility
of Cuba--Sugar noblemen--The grades of society--The yeomanry of the
island--Their social position--What they might be--Love of gambling,
131

CHAPTER XI.

A sugar plantation--Americans employed--Slaves on the plantations--A
coffee plantation--Culture of coffee, sugar and tobacco--Statistics of
agriculture--The cucullos, or Cuban fire-fly--Novel ornaments worn by
the ladies--The Cuban mode of harnessing oxen--The montero and his
horse--Curious style of out-door painting--Petty annoyances to
travellers--Jealousy of the authorities--Japan-like
watchfulness--Questionable policy--Political condition of Cuba, 145

CHAPTER XII.

Tacon's summary mode o