Military Notes on CubaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - 507 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
12 miles Almendares River anchorage Artemisa AYUNTAMIENTO Bahía Honda bank Batabanó battery Bejucal bridge brush Cabañas Caibarién calzada cane Cárdenas cattle Cerro channel Chorrera Ciénaga coast Cojimar Consolación Consolación del Sur culvert Diego Distance from capital east eastward entrance fathoms water feet high Guanabacoa Guanajay Güines guns Habana Habana Railroad harbor hills houses huts inhabitants island Jaruco Jesús del Monte JUDICIAL DISTRICT kilometers land Marianao Mariel Matanzas Morro mountains Nuevitas Outlying villages palms Pinar del Río Playa port Post office probably province Punta railway reef Regla ridge Rincón road continues road crosses road runs rock Sagua Sagua la Grande San Cristóbal San Juan Sancti Spíritus sandy Santa Clara Santiago de Cuba shoal shore side tracks stream sugar mill TABLE OF DISTANCES thence town troops turnpike vessels wagons westward wet weather yellow fever
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Página 2 - British power supported them during the struggles of the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century.
Página 47 - ... for two months. Rough, muddy, or both, these streets serve admirably as permanent receptacles for much decomposing animal and vegetable matter. Finally, not less, probably more, than onehalf the population of Havana live on streets which are constantly in an extremely insanitary condition, but these streets, though so numerous, are not in the beaten track of the pleasure tourist. In...
Página 8 - Habana, in the warmest months, those of July and August, the average temperature is 82° F., the maximum being 88°, and the minimum 76°; in the cooler months, December and January, the thermometer averages 72°, the maximum being 78°, and the minimum 58°.
Página 1 - ... Santiago de Cuba, was made in 1514, and the following year a settlement was made at Trinidad. The island was first called Juana, then Fernandina, and later Ave Maria. It received its present name from the natives of the island, whom Columbus described as a peaceful, contented, and progressive race.
Página 3 - On February 15, 1898, the United States battleship Maine was blown up in the harbor of Habana.
Página 138 - The outer limits of these great barrier reefs are but imperfectly defined, and should therefore be approached with the utmost caution, for the lead will give scarcely any warning, and the sea on the shoals seldom breaks. The land at the SW. part of this shore is so low as to be out of sight from the edge of the reef, and the current in the immediate vicinity is strong and extremely variable. The edge of the bank, which passes a mile westward of Cape San Antonio, runs about N. by E. for 7 miles, with...
Página 380 - Vigia ("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 deep-draft vessels. The population numbers...
Página 96 - ... effectually interrupt all communication between the Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico, and thereby give the court of the Catholic king a distaste for the alliance with that of St. Cloud. The first rendezvous of the forces to be combined with the original expedition was at Martinique, and Sir James Douglas was ordered to unite his squadron, stationed at Port Royal, Jamaica, with that of Sir George Pocock, at the Cape of St. Nicholas, in the island of St. Domingo. From this point of union the expedition...
Página 8 - Situated within and near the border of the northern tropical zone, the climate of the low coast lands of Cuba is that of the torrid zone, but the higher interior of the island enjoys a more temperate atmosphere. As...
Página 3 - Cubans taxed to the utmost, each paying from three to six dollars per capita. At one time the Cuban debt reached nearly a billion and a quarter of dollars, and for the past twenty years the island has been paying an annual revenue to the Crown of from $25,000,000 to $40,000,000. It was during this war that the American ship Yirginius was captured by the Spaniards, her cargo confiscated, and many of her passengers executed as revolutionists.