LOCOMOTION IN THE COUNTRY.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A Cuban Planter going into town with his plunder.]
SHOPPING IN HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist just steps around the corner, to look at a "sweet thing in fans" that his wife has found.]
[Ill.u.s.tration: RESULT!]
THE NATIONAL BEVERAGE OF HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist indulges in a _pa.n.a.le frio_ (a sort of lime-ade), at the Cafe Dominica, and gets so "set up," that he vows he won"t go home till morning.]
THE LIZARDS OF CUBA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist, on an entomological expedition in the Bishop"s Garden, is disagreeably surprised to find such sprightly specimens.]
SMOKING IN HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: An English acquaintance of Our Artist wants a light for his paper segar; whereupon the waiter, according to custom, brings a live coal.]
THE MUSQUITOS OF HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A midsummer"s night dream.--Our Artist is just the least bit disturbed in his rest, and gently remonstrates.]
PUBLIC SERVANTS IN CUBA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A gay and festive Chinese brakeman, on the railroad near Guines.--The shirt-collar-and-pair-of-spurs style of costume.]
ONE OF THE SENSATIONS IN CUBA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Great Cave near Matanzas.--Picturesque House over the Entrance.]
THE GREAT CAVE NEAR MATANZAS.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A section of the interior--showing the comfortable manner in which our artist followed the guide, inspected the stalact.i.tes, and comported himself generally.]
THE OUTSKIRTS OF MATANZAS.
[Ill.u.s.tration: One of the Fortifications.--Sketched from the end of the _Paseo_, on a day hot enough to give anything but a donkey the brain fever.]
ARCHITECTURE IN MATANZAS.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A romantic little _tienda mista_ (grocery store) on a corner, in the Calle Ona.]
A _CAFFETAL_ NEAR MATANZAS.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist becomes dumb with admiration, at the ingenious manner of toting little n.i.g.g.e.rs.]
THE PICTURESQUE IN MATANZAS.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A singular little bit, out of the Calle Manzana.]
A SUGAR PLANTATION, NEAR THE YUMORI.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist essays to drink the milk from a green Cocoa:]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Fatal effect.--An uncomfortable sensation!]