LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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