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OUR ARTIST IN CUBA
OUR
ARTIST IN CUBA.
FIFTY DRAWINGS ON WOOD.
LEAVES FROM
THE SKETCH-BOOK OF A TRAVELER,
DURING THE WINTER OF 1864-5,
BY GEO. W. CARLETON.
NEW YORK:
_Carleton, Publisher,_ 413 _Broadway._
_London: S. Low, Son & Co._
MDCLXV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
GEO. W. CARLETON,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
CONTENTS.
A PRELIMINARY WORD.
No.
SICK TRANSIT 1
Two BOOBIES 2
A COLORED HERCULES 3
THE CUBAN JEHU 4
IGLESIA DE SAN FRANCISCO 5
A CUBAN MOTIVE 6
AN INFLUENZA 7
FLEE FOR SHELTER 8
THE RIDE 9
A COCK-FIGHT 10
RATHER COOL 11
A SPANISH RETREAT 12
TAKE YOUR PICK 13
SPIDERS, RATS, AND COCKROACHES 14
BELLIGERENTS 15
MATERFAMILIAS ET FILIUS 16
A CULINARY DEPARTMENT 17
A BUNDLE OF CLOTHES 18
A BUTTON-SMASHER 19
WHITE PANTALOONS 20
A CARNIVAL ACQUAINTANCE 21
BEAUTY AT THE BALL 22
A DISAPPOINTMENT 23
DOLCE FAR NIENTE 24
LOCOMOTION 25
THE SPANISH TONGUE 26
AN UNWELCOME VISITOR 27
AN AGREEABLE BATH 28
A CELESTIAL MAID 29
A STATUE ON A BUST 30
A TAIL UNFOLDED 31
PUT MONEY IN THY PURSE 32
SUGAR AND WATER 33
GREEN FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW 34
A SEGAR WELL-LIGHTED 35
WHERE SHALL REST BE FOUND 36
ALL ABOARD 37
THE MATANZAS CAVE 38
A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL 39
A SHADY RETREAT 40
A SPANISH GROCER 41
COLORED HELP 42
VERY MOORISH 43
CHACUN A SON GOUT 44
NATURE'S SWEET RESTORER 45
AGRICULTURAL 46
A COT IN THE VALLEY 47
A COLORED BEAUTY 48
CORNER STONES 49
A SUDDEN DEPARTURE 50
A PRELIMINARY WORD.
WITH many misgivings, the author of this little _brochure_ has been persuaded to give the prominence of publication to a mere pocket-book collection of way-side pen-and-ink sketches, the chance results of idle moments, sandwiched with such Cuban events as paring oranges and sipping from their cups of nectar--tearing through the narrow streets of Havana in ragged volantes--listening in the soft moonlight, and arm-in-arm with Cuban senoritas, to the Artillery band in the Plaza des Armas--assisting with domino and false nose at the masquerades in the Tacon Theatre--lounging with ices or delicious chocolate at the Cafe Dominica--dallying with cigar and fragrant coffee, after the regulation breakfast of codfish, garlic, and onions--snuffing up the perfumed air, and strolling through the golden orange-groves of Cafetals--joining in the battle, murder, and sudden death of Marinao cock-fights--vagabondizing along the shady side of Calle Obispo--and so forth, through all the _dulce far nientes_ of a stranger's drifting life, among the lights and shadows of the Antilles' Queen.
The only merit the pictures possess, perhaps, is their faithfulness to nature. Though chiefly caricatures, they represent such incidents and scenes as every one, with both eyes open, sees, who visits Cuba; and being sketched upon the spot, with all the crispy freshness of a first impression, they possess a sort of photographic value, that, in spite of their grotesqueness, may prove more lasting than the entertainment which their humor offers.
NEW YORK, April, 1865.
THE START.--THE STEAMSHIP COLUMBIA.
AT SEA.
IN THE GULF OF MEXICO.
ARRIVAL AT HAVANA.
STREETS OF HAVANA.--CALLE MERCADERES.
VIEW FROM OUR WINDOW AT THE HOTEL ALMY.
STREETS OF HAVANA.--CALLE TENIENTE RE.
AT THE CAFE LOUVRE.
THE [WICKED] FLEA OF HAVANA.
THE NATIONAL VEHICLE OF HAVANA.
A COCK-FIGHT IN CUBA.
STREETS OF HAVANA.--CALLE LAMPARILLA.
THE CUBAN TOOTH-PICK.
THE CAPTAIN GENERAL'S QUINTA,
THE DOMESTIC INSECTS OF HAVANA.
A LITTLE EPISODE IN THE CALLE BARRATILLO.
STREETS OF HAVANA.--CALLE COMPOSTELLA,
AN INTERIOR IN HAVANA.
HEADS OF THE PEOPLE.
PRIMITIVE HABITS OF THE NATIVES.
WASHING IN HAVANA..
CARNIVAL IN HAVANA.
A MASK BALL AT THE TACON.
LATER IN THE EVENING,
STREETS OF HAVANA--CALLE OBRAPIA.
STREETS OF HAVANA--CALLE O'REILLY.
FIRST HOUR!
BED-ROOMS IN CUBA.
SEA-BATHS IN HAVANA,
HOTELS IN HAVANA.
HIGH ART IN HAVANA.
LOCOMOTION IN THE COUNTRY.
SHOPPING IN HAVANA.
THE NATIONAL BEVERAGE OF HAVANA.
THE LIZARDS OF CUBA.
SMOKING IN HAVANA.
THE MUSQUITOS OF HAVANA.
PUBLIC SERVANTS IN CUBA.
ONE OF THE SENSATIONS IN CUBA.
THE GREAT CAVE NEAR MATANZAS.
THE OUTSKIRTS OF MATANZAS.
ARCHITECTURE IN MATANZAS.
A CAFFETAL NEAR MATANZAS.
THE PICTURESQUE IN MATANZAS.
A SUGAR PLANTATION, NEAR THE YUMORI.
A BED-CHAMBER IN MATANZAS.
ECONOMY IS WEALTH.
THE SUBURBS OF CALABAZAR
PLANTATIONS NEAR MARIANAS,
ARCHITECTURE IN HAVANA.
LAST NIGHT IN HAVANA.
End of Project Gutenberg's Our Artist in Cuba, by George W. Carleton