C.

Cactus, the enormous size of the, 126.

CafA(C)s and restaurants, Cuban, 155.

Campos, Marshal Martinez, agrees to the Treaty of Zanjou, 94; his good intentions, 116.

Canga, the, 141.

Canovas, SeA+-or, de Castillo, signs Treaty of Zanjou, 95.

Cardenas, called the "American City," 26; its population, 192 (in note).

Carnival, dances given during, 23; the Havanese Carnival, 139; its end on Shrove Tuesday, 142.

Caruba tree, the, 190.

Cattle used as horses, 167 (in note).

Cauto River, the, navigable for small craft, 5.

Caves of the Bellamar, the magnificent, 158.

Cays, the, dangerous to vessels, 5; their beauty, 174.

Cemeteries, Cuban, 202.

Cereals, exported from Spain, 4.

Cerro, the, 125.

Cespedes, Carlos Manuel, begins the rebellion, 83; his character, 83; the burning of his plantation, 85; elected President of the Cuban Republic, 87; his tragic death, 91.

Chinese, the wretched condition of the, in Cuba, 37; the Chinese in the ranks of the rebels, 37; their religious practices, 110.

Churches, the, of Havana, 132; music in the, 138; flirtation in church, 138.

Cienfuegos, the town and harbour, 161; the surrounding country, 162.

Cipango, Columbus thinks Cuba is, 42.

Cisneros, Miss Evangelina, story of, 117.

Cisneros y BA(C)tancourt, Don Salvador, elected President of the Cuban Republic, 93.

Clergy, the, of the rebel army, 109.

Cleveland, President, tries to prevent filibustering expeditions to Cuba, 99.

Climate, 2 (in note); is tolerable, 10; 108.

Coaches in Havana, 131.

Cock-fighting in Cuba, 145; a century ago, 275.

Cocoa, 4; the plant, 213.

Coffee, was one of the principal products, 3; replaced by the sugar cane, 69; a coffee plantation, 213.

Columbus, Christopher, first sights the New World, 38; lands at Fernandina, 39; the wonders he encounters, 39; his followers grow clamorous for gold, 40; the imaginery Quinsai, 40; he discovers Cuba, 40; and takes possession of it in the names of the Spanish sovereigns, 41; convinced that it is the Cipango described by Marco Polo, 42; believes Cuba to be a part of the mainland, 43; said to have landed at British Honduras, 44; Columbus and the native, 46; visits the island twice again, 49; the journeyings of his remains, 133; his enthusiastic description of New Providence, 225; his birthplace, 237; and parents, 238; the house in which he was born, 240; his brothers, 241; first goes to sea, 244; his education, 244; the sports he played when a child, 254.

Columbus, Diego, Governor of Hispaniola, 49.

Cook, the Cuban, 124.

Cookery, Cuban, 155.

Coolie labour, 36.

Cuba, Island of, its shape and size, I; mountains, 2; position and weather, 2 (in note); coffee and tobacco once the chief articles of cultivation, 3; French settlers persuade the Cubans to extend their sugar plantations, 4; other products, 4; navigable rivers, 5; animals and reptiles, 7; disagreeable insects, 8; flora, 10; climate, 10; filthy drains, 11; its prehistoric inhabitants, 14; present population and inhabitants, 16; laws, 17; first appearance of the Inquisition on the island, 18; Las Casas gives an impetus to education, 18; state of chaos in, during the Napoleonic period, 19; overrun by Americans, 19; society in, 23; first sighted by Columbus, 40; its numerous names, 41 (in note); its beauties in the eyes of its Discoverer, 41; first circumnavigated, 49; Diego Velasquez sent to, 49; he founds Havana, Santiago de Cuba, etc., 49; Hernando Cortez in, 49; C. during the buccaneering period, 51; Drake appears off, 54; prosperity of, at the beginning of the 18th century, 59; taken by the English under the Duke of Albemarle in 1762, 60; large French emigration to, 61; administration of Don Luis Las Casas, 63; effect of the Revolution upon, 66; bad times for, 68; opening of the Cuban ports, 68; "Cuba la Sempre Fiel," 69; the beneficent government of Tacon, 72; the prosperity of, declining, 73; the first indications of rebellion, 74; offers to purchase C., 77; C. in 1860, 79; the state of the island going from bad to worse, 81; result of the work of the Commission appointed to enquire into the affairs of, 81; Maximo Gomez, Commander-in-Chief of the rebel army, 93; U.S. trade with Cuba, 97, 113; Cuban forests, 104; economic condition of, 114; C. Spain's death-trap, 115; description of Havana, 121; Marianao, 148; the cafA(C)s and restaurants of Cuba, 155; Cienfuegos, 161; Trinidad, 172; backward state of the plantations, 174; Santiago de Cuba, 179; the newspapers of, 189; a Cuban plantation, 205; the beauty of the Cuban night, 212; a Cuban household, 214.

_Cubana_, the dance, 141.

Cubanos, or Cubans, filthy habits of the, 11; descent from early Spanish settlers, 17; characteristics of the, 18; Voltarian and free-thinking works read by the, during the Napoleonic Era, 19; many, educated, 19; the C. not permitted to share in the Government until twenty years ago, 20; C. who live for generations on one plantation, 20; a very domestic people, 21; isolation of the children, 21; premature marriages, 21; laxity of morals among the, 21; morbid literature read by the, 21; the drama, 22; their love of music, 23; their large families, 24; the piety of the women, 24; insincerity of the, in their religion, 24; their contract with foreign ideas, 71; their wish to be represented in the Cortes at Madrid, 71; they petition Queen Isabella to appoint a Commission to enquire into the state of the island, 81; C. in official positions, 112; the Carnival in Havana, 139; their theatricals, 144; the Guajiros, 162; early habits of the C. 168; why they differ with the Spaniards, 176; a Cuban funeral, 200; a young Cuban lady, 215; their partiality for smoking, 222.

Cucullo, the, 8.