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.
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| [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 man 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 Café 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.