History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics / Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time

by Maturin M. Ballou

A CUBAN VOLANTE IN THE PASEO.

FOOTNOTES:

[28] The common salutation, on being introduced or meeting a lady, is, "A los pies de usted señora" (at the feet of your grace, my lady).

[29] San Julian de los Guines contains from two to three thousand inhabitants.

[30] The English game-cock is prized in Cuba only for crossing the breed, for he cannot equal the Spanish bird in agility or endurance.

[31] Three years after the seed of the orange tree is deposited in the soil, the tree is twelve or fifteen feet high, and the fourth year it produces a hundred oranges. At ten years of age it bears from three to four thousand, thus proving vastly profitable.

[32] "This favored land wants nothing but men to turn its advantages to account, and enjoy their results, to be acknowledged as the garden of the world."—Alexander H. Everett.

[33] Humboldt tells us that he has often heard the herdsmen in South America say, "Midnight is past—the Southern Cross begins to bend."