Military Notes on Cuba, November 18981898 - 507 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
12 miles Almendares River anchorage Artemisa AYUNTAMIENTO Bahía Honda bank Batabanó Bejucal bridge brush Cabañas calzada cane Cárdenas cattle channel Chorrera Ciénaga coast Consolación Consolación del Sur Cruz culvert Diego Distance from capital east eastward entrance fathoms water flat Guanabacoa Guanajay Güines guns Habana Habana Railroad harbor hills houses huts inhabitants island Jaruco Jesús del Monte JUDICIAL DISTRICT kilometers land Marianao Mariel Matanzas meadows Morro Nuevitas Outlying villages palms passes Pinar del Río Playa Point population port Post office province railway reef Regla ridge Rincón road continues road crosses road runs rock Sagua Sagua la Grande San Cristóbal San Felipe San Juan Sancti Spíritus Santa Clara Santiago de Cuba shoal shore side tracks stone walls stream sugar mill TABLE OF DISTANCES telegraph station town troops turnpike vessels wagons westward yards yellow fever
Pasajes populares
Página 6 - British power supported them during the struggles of the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century.
Página 51 - ... 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 5 - ... 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 12 - Habana, on a mean of seven years, is 77°; lout in the interior, at elevations of over 300 feet above the sea, the thermometer occasionally falls to the freezing point in winter.
Página 48 - January . . . February . . . March April Mav June July August September .. October . . . November...
Página 20 - Cuba. — Annual prevalence certainly since 1851, and probably very much longer. It is a noted center of infection, and its small harbor is more dangerous to the shipping than any other port in the whole island.
Página 7 - On February 15, 1898, the United States battleship Maine was blown up in the harbor of Habana.
Página 142 - 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 23 - Cuba, belongs to the same groupe as the Copper Mountains. The island is crossed from ESE to WNW by a chain of hills, which approach the southern coast between the meridians of la Ciudad de Puerto Principe, and the Villa Clara; while, more to the west, towards Alvarez and Matanzas, they stretch towards the northern coast. Going from the mouth of the Rio...
Página 6 - During the next fourteen years the island enjoyed a period of comparative quiet and prosperity. "In 1868 a revolution broke out in Spain, and in October the natives of Cuba took up arms and declared their independence. During this period many of the nations of the Western Hemisphere recognized the Cubans as belligerents.