Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers / Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868

by George Washington Carleton

• [An Apology.]
  
• PART I.—[CUBA], [Page 5]
  
  • [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.]
  • [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 Marianao.]
  • [Architecture In Havana.]
  • [Last Night In Havana.]
  • [Peruvian Sketches.]
• PART II.—[PERU], [Page 57]
  
  • [The Start—steamship "Henry Chauncey." From New York To Aspinwall.]
  • [In The Caribbean Sea.]
  • [Arrival At Aspinwall.]
  • [Isthmus Of Darien.]
  • [A View In Panama.]
  • [An Afternoon At Panama.]
  • [A Street Scene In Panama.]
  • [In The Bay Of Panama.]
  • [Steamship "Chile." From Panama To Callao.]
  • [Payta—a Seaport In Peru.]
  • [Natural History In Peru.]
  • [Arrival At Callao—the Harbor.]
  • [Architecture In Callao.]
  • [Arrival At Lima.]
  • [The Cathedral At Lima.]
  • [Domestics In Peru.]
  • [A Peruvian Cook.]
  • [Streets Of Lima—Calle Judios.]
  • [Celestials In Peru.]
  • [Dolce Far Niente—a Dream Of Peru.]
  • [The Sad Reality.]
  • [Bedrooms In Peru.]
  • [Streets Of Lima.—Calle Palacio.]
  • [Streets Of Lima—Calle Plateros.]
  • [Occupations In Lima.]
  • [Carriages And Pavements In Lima.]
  • [Costumes In Lima.—the Saya Y Manto.]
  • [Head-dresses In Lima.—the Manto.]
  • [Revolutions In Peru.]
  • [The War With Spain.]
  • [Martial Music In Peru.]
  • [Fine Arts In Peru.]
  • [Dark Ages Of Peru.]
  • [Locomotion In South America.]
  • [Hair-dressing In Lima.]
  • [A Fruit-stall At Chorrillos.]
  • [Shopping In Peru.]
  • [The Fleas Of Lima.]
  • [The Llamas Of Peru.]
  • [Terpsichore In Peru.]
  • [Church Ornaments In Lima.]
  • [The Bells Of Lima.]
  • [Peruvian Bark—in The Rough.]
  • [Transportation In Peru.]
  • [Priests And Friars Of Lima.]
  • [Entomology In South America.]
  • [Lotteries In Peru.]
  • [Curiosities Of Peru.]
  • [A Coup D'œil In Lima.]
  • [Last Day At Lima.]
• PART III.—[SPAIN], [Page 109]
  
  • [A Spanish Overcoat.]
  • [Hackmen In Spain.]
  • [A Citizen Of Valladolid.]
  • [A Madrid Hat.]
  • [Lotteries In Spain.]
  • [Sight-seeing In Spain.]
  • [Napoleon Bonaparte.]
  • [A Rail-road Official.]
  • [Architecture In Cordova.]
  • [Balconies In Seville.]
  • [Il Barbiere Di Siviglia.]
  • [A Barbarous Proceeding.]
  • [A Café In Seville.]
  • [Types Of Spanish Character.]
  • [Spanish Stage-coaches.]
  • [Locomotion In Spain.]
  • [The Spanish Guitar.]
  • [Beggars In Spain.]
  • [The Alhambra.]
  • [The Alhambra.]
  • [A Spanish Vegetable Market.]
• PART IV.—[ALGIERS], [Page131]
  
  • [Landing In Africa.]
  • [An Arab Beggar.]
  • [African Water Carriers.]
  • [Bed-rooms In Africa.]
  • [Another Arab Beggar.]
  • [Locomotion In Africa.]
  • [Costumes In Africa.]
  • [Soldiers In Africa.]
  • [A Street In Algiers.]
  • [Manufactures In Africa.]
  • [Moorish Shop-keeper.]
  • [Fine Arts In Africa.]
  • [Jardin D'essai, Algiers.]

AN APOLOGY.

——

HE Author of these unpretending little wayside sketches offers them to the Public with the hesitating diffidence of an Amateur. The publication a few years ago, of a portion of the drawings was attended with so flattering a reception, that a new edition being called for, it is believed a few more Leaves from the same vagabond sketch-book may not be intrusive.

The out-of-the-way sort of places in which the Author's steps have led him, must always present the most enticing subjects for a comic pencil; and although no attempt is here made to much more than hint at the oranges and volantes of Cuba, the earthquakes and buzzards of Peru, the donkeys and beggars of Spain, or the Arabs and dates of Algiers, yet sketches made upon the spot, with the crispy freshness of a first impression, cannot fail in suggesting at least a panoramic picture of such grotesque incidents as these strange Countries furnish.

The drawings are merely the chance results of leisure moments; and Our Artist, in essaying to convey a ray of information through the glasses of humor, has simply multiplied with printers' ink his pocket-book of sketches, which, although caricatures, are exaggerations of actual events, jotted down on the impulse of the moment, for the same sort of idle pastime as may possibly lead the reader to linger along its ephemeral pages.

NEW YORK, Christmas, 1877.