Cuba and Porto Rico: With the Other Islands of the West Indies : Their Topography, Climate, Flora, Products, Industries, Cities, People, Political Conditions, EtcCentury, 1899 - 447 páginas |
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African agricultural altitude American Antillean Antilles Bahamas Barbados beautiful border Cape Caribbean Sea Caribbees central church Cienfuegos civilization Clara climate coffee colony colored commercial Cuban cultivation east eastern English especially exports extend French geologic Guadeloupe Gulf Haiti Haitian harbor Havana hills hundred feet important industry inhabitants interior island islets Jamaica labor land Lesser Antilles limestone Martinique Matanzas mountains native nearly negroes northern peculiar peninsula picturesque Pinar del Rio plain plateau population port Porto Rico present Puerto Principe race reefs REESE LIBRARY region republic rivers rocks San Juan Santa Santiago de Cuba Santo Domingo side Sierra Maestra slopes south coast southern Spain Spaniards Spanish square miles steamers streams sugar sugar-estates summits temperature thousand feet tion town Trinidad tropical United valleys vegetation volcanic Vuelta Vuelta Abajo West Indian West Indies western Windward
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Página 250 - So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, " that I swear to your Majesties, there is not in the world a better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves ; and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile ; and though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy.
Página 176 - ... custom house, the office of the captain of the port, and all the consular offices. The port is spacious and will hold vessels of 25 feet draft. The climate, on account of the sea breezes during the day and land breezes at night, is not oppressive, but very hot and dry; and, as water for all purposes, including the fire department, is amply supplied by an aqueduct...
Página 379 - Vol. 34, 1899) says that at the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the...
Página 264 - The executive power is in the hands of a President, who, according to the Constitution, must be elected by the people, but in recent years has generally been chosen by the united Senate and House of Commons, sitting in National Assembly, and in some instances by the troops, and by delegates of parties acting as representatives of the people. The nominal term of office of the President is four years ; however, it is generally cut short by insurrections.
Página 411 - The town, Isabel Segunda, is on the north, and the port is unsafe in times of northerly wind, like all the anchorages on that side; the few ports on the south are better, the best being Punta Arenas. Not long ago there were two importing and exporting houses on the island of...
Página 253 - The Ministry is composed of the heads of the departments of the Interior and Police, Finance and Commerce, Justice and Public Instruction, War and Marine, Public Works and Foreign Affairs. Each province and district is administered by a governor appointed by the President. The various communes, cantons, and sections are presided over by prefects or magistrates appointed by the governors.
Página 68 - We do not leave a creature alive where we pass, be it man or animal. If we find cows, we kill them; if horses, ditto; if hogs, ditto; men, women, or children, ditto ; as to the houses, we burn them : so every one receives his due, — the men in balls, the animals in bayonet-thrusts. The island will remain a desert.
Página 124 - It is located on the slope of the mountain calledLaVigia ("Lookout"), which has an elevation of about nine hundred feet above sea-level. The port, Casilda, lies about one league to the south ; the harbor is almost landlocked and has very little depth. Vessels drawing ten feet six inches are liable to run aground with the least deviation from the tortuous channel. About half a mile west of Trinidad is the river Guarabo, navigable for small boats only. Four miles east lies Masio Bay, which will accommodate...
Página 220 - Unwilling to forsake his companions in captivity, he declined a proffered Parole, and sunk under a Tropical Fever. This Stone Is inscribed by the hand of Affection as a Memorial of his virtues. And records the gratitude of his Friends for the kind offices which, in the season of sickness, and hour of death, he received at the hands of A generous Foe.
Página 399 - As we sail down the eastern islands, hardly a score in number . . . we find five foreign flags and no less than a dozen distinct colonial governments . . . with no shadow of federation between them, or even co-operation of any kind." For example, Dominica, though lying between Guadeloupe and Martinique, and within sight of both, is commercially farther from them than from England, because it is cut off from the French neighbors by tariff and quarantine laws. Edwards, in his history of the, British...