Cuba and Porto Rico, with the Other Islands of the West Indies: Their Topography, Climate, Flora, Products, Industries, Cities, People, Political Conditions, EtcCentury Company, 1899 - 447 páginas |
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Página 252 - 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 383 - Cuba. All of these areas, with parts of Central America, may have been a vast island lying between the continents (for it is most probable that Central America then had no connection with North or South America), thereby fulfilling the old conception of an Atlantis; but man had not at that time appeared upon the earth, or, if so, it has not been proved, and hence there is no reason for supposing that this body of land was the Atlantis of the Grecian myth. The geological history of these islands has...
Página 178 - ... 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 176 - ... occupies the greater part of the inner court-yard that is an essential part of Spanish houses the world over, but that here, on account of the crowded conditions, is very small. There is no sewerage, except for surface water and sinks, while vaults are in every house and occupy whatever remaining space there may be in the patios not taken up by the cisterns. The risk of contaminating the water is very great, and in dry seasons the supply is entirely exhausted.
Página 179 - The quality is of the best, ranging in price with Java and other first-rate brands. The lower grades are sent to Cuba. About 50,000 bags of flour are imported into this port every year from the United States, out of the 180,000 bags that are consumed in the whole island.
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 222 - January 4th, 1813. 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 312 - Thomas's, piled up among orange-trees, at the foot of a green corrie, or rather couple of corries, some eight hundred feet high. There it was, as veritable a Dutch-oven for cooking fever in, with as veritable a drippingpan for the poison when concocted in the tideless basin below the town, as man ever invented. And we were not sorry when the superintendent, coming on board, bade us steam back again out of the port, and round a certain Waterisland, at the back of which is a second and healthier harbour,...
Página 360 - ... that be any good to them. The steamer does not stop at any of these little sea-hermitages ; so that we could only 'watch their shores : and they were worth watching. They had been, plainly, sea-gnawn for countless ages; and may, at some remote time, have been all joined in one long ragged chine of hills, the highest about 1,000 feet.
Página 180 - Spanish towns, with a plaza surrounded by the church and other public buildings in the center, and streets running from it in right angles, forming regular squares. The buildings are constructed of wood and brick. The harbor is poor, being nothing more than an open roadstead exposed to the full force of the ocean, In which vessels during northerly winds can hardly lie In safety. Close inshore, on one side, dangerous reofs stretch, a constant menace to vessels if the anchor does not hold.