| Shade-grown tobacco in Porto Rico | [Frontispiece] |
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| FACING PAGE |
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| St. Augustine, Florida, from the old Spanish fortress | [16] |
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| A policeman of Havana | [16] |
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| Cuba’s new presidential palace | [17] |
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| Venders of lottery tickets in rural Cuba | [32] |
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| The winning numbers of the lottery | [32] |
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| Pigeons are kept to clear the tobacco fields of insects | [33] |
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| Ploughing for tobacco in the famous Vuelta Abajo district. The large building is a tobacco barn, the small ones are residences of the planters | [33] |
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| A Cuban shoemaker | [56] |
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| Cuban soldiers | [56] |
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| Matanzas, with drying sisal fiber in the foreground | [57] |
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| The Central Plaza of Cienfuegos | [57] |
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| A principal street of Santa Clara | [64] |
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| The Central Plaza of Santa Clara | [64] |
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| A dairyman, Santa Clara district | [65] |
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| Cuban town scenery | [65] |
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| A Cuban residence in a new clearing | [114] |
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| Planting sugar-cane on newly cleared land | [114] |
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| Hauling cane to a Cuban sugar-mill | [115] |
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| A station of a Cuban pack train | [115] |
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| Cuban travelers | [80] |
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| A Cuban milkman | [80] |
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| A street of Santiago de Cuba | [81] |
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| Not all Chinamen succeed in Cuba | [81] |
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| The entire enlisted personnel of the Haitian Navy | [112] |
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| A school in Port au Prince | [112] |
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| The central square and Cathedral of Port au Prince on market day | [113] |
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| Looking down upon the market from the cathedral platform | [113] |
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| A Haitian gendarme | [128] |
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| The president of Haiti | [128] |
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| A street in Port au Prince | [129] |
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| The unfinished presidential palace of Haiti, on New Year’s Day, 1920 | [129] |
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| A Haitian country home | [144] |
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| A small portion of one collection of captured caco war material | [144] |
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| The caco in the foreground killed an American Marine | [145] |
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| Captain Hanneken and “General Jean” Conzé at Christophe’s Citadel | [145] |
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| Ruins of the old French estates are to be found all over Haiti | [160] |
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| A Haitian wayside store | [160] |
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| The market women of Haiti sell everything under the sun—A “General” in a Haitian market | [161] |
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| There are still more primitive sugar-mills than these in Haiti | [161] |
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| A corner of Christophe’s Citadel. Its situation is such that it could only be well photographed from an airplane | [176] |
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| The ruins of Christophe’s palace of San Souci | [176] |
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| The mayor, the judge, and the richest man of a Haitian town in the bush | [177] |
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| Cockfighting is a favorite Haitian sport | [177] |
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| The plaza and clock tower of Monte Cristo, showing its American bullet hole | [192] |
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| Railroading in Santo Domingo | [192] |
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| The tri-weekly train arrives at Santiago | [193] |
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| Dominican guardias | [193] |
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| Gen. Deciderio Arias, now a cigar maker, whose revolution finally caused American intervention in Santo Domingo | [208] |
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| A bread seller of Santo Domingo | [208] |
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| The church within a church of Moca | [209] |
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| The “holy place” of Santo Domingo on top of the Santo Cerro where Columbus planted a cross | [209] |
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| A Dominican switch engine | [224] |
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| A Dominican hearse | [224] |
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| American Marines on the march | [225] |
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| A riding horse of Samaná | [225] |
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| Advertising a typical Dominican theatrical performance | [240] |
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| A tree to which Columbus tied one of his ships, now on the wharf of Santo Domingo City | [240] |
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| The tomb of Columbus in the cathedral of Santo Domingo City | [241] |
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| Ponce de Leon’s palace now flies the Stars and Stripes | [256] |
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| Thousands of women work in the fields in Porto Rico | [256] |
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| Air-plants grow even on the telegraph wires in Ponce | [257] |
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| A hat seller of Cabo Rojo | [257] |
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| There is school accommodation for only half the children of our Porto Rico | [272] |
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| The home of a lace-maker in Aguadilla | [273] |
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| The Porto Rican method of making lace | [273] |
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| The place of pilgrimage for pious Porto Ricans | [288] |
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| Porto Rican children of the coast lands | [288] |
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| The old sugar-kettles scattered through the West Indies have many uses | [289] |
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| A corner in Aguadilla | [289] |
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| The priest in charge of Porto Rico’s place of pilgrimage | [296] |
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| One reason why cane-cutters cannot all be paid the same wages | [296] |
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| A procession of strikers in honor of representatives of the A. F. of L. | [297] |
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| “How many of you are on strike?” asked Senator Iglesias | [297] |
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| The new church of Guayama, Porto Rico | [304] |
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| A Porto Rican ex-soldier working as road peon. He gathers the grass with a wooden hook and cuts it with a small sickle | [304] |
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| Porto Rican tobacco fields | [305] |
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| Charlotte Amalie, capital of our Virgin Islands | [305] |
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| A corner of Charlotte Amalie | [320] |
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| Picking sea-island cotton, the second of St. Croix products | [320] |
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| A familiar sight in St. Croix, the ruins of an old sugar mill and the stone tower of its cane-grinding windmill | [321] |
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| A cistern in which rain water is stored for drinking purposes | [321] |
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| Roseau, capital of beautiful Dominica | [352] |
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| A woman of Dominica bringing a load of limes down from the mountain | [352] |
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| Kingstown, capital of St. Vincent | [353] |
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| Trafalgar Square, Bridgetown, Barbados, with its statue of Nelson | [353] |
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| The Prince of Wales lands in Barbados | [368] |
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| The principal street of Bridgetown, decorated in honor of its royal visitor | [368] |
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| Barbadian porters loading hogsheads of sugar always take turns riding back to the warehouse | [369] |
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| There is an Anglican Church of this style in each of the eleven parishes of Barbados | [369] |
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| The turn-out of most Barbadians | [384] |
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| A Barbadian windmill | [385] |
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| Two Hindus of Trinidad | [385] |
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| Trinidad has many Hindu temples | [400] |
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| Very much of a lodge | [400] |
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| At the “Asphalt Lake” | [401] |
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| There is water, too, in the crevices of the asphalt field | [401] |
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| As I passed this group on a Jamaican highway, the woman reading the Bible was saying “So I ax de Lard what I shall do” | [416] |
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| “Draw me portrait please, sir!” The load consists of school books and a pair of hobnail shoes | [416] |
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| A very frequent sight along the roads of Jamaica | [417] |
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| Our baggage following us ashore in one of the French islands | [417] |
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| Private graveyards are to be found all over Jamaica | [432] |
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| A street of Basse Terre, capital of Guadeloupe | [432] |
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| A woman of Guadeloupe | [433] |
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| The town criers of Pointe à Pitre | [433] |
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| In the outskirts of Guadeloupe’s commercial capital | [448] |
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| Fort de France, capital of Martinique | [448] |
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| The savane of Fort de France, with the Statue of Josephine, once Empress of the French | [449] |
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| Women of Martinique | [464] |
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| A principal street of Fort de France with its cathedral | [464] |
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| The shops of Martinique are sometimes as gaily garbed as the women | [465] |
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| Empress Josephine was born where this house stands | [465] |
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| The St. Pierre of to-day with Pélée in the background | [472] |
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| The cathedral of St. Pierre | [473] |
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| The present residents of St. Pierre tuck their houses into the corners of old stone ruins | [473] |
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| The harbor of Curaçao | [480] |
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| A woman of Curaçao | [480] |
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| The principal Dutch island is not noted for its verdure | [481] |
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| A Curaçao landscape | [481] |
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| MAP |
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| The itinerary of the author | [48] |