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.
DECKER, MR, and the Miss Cisneros incident, 118.
Dogs, 6; the tiny spaniel and the colossal molasso, 6.
Drake, Sir Francis, appears off Cuba, 54.
Eastern Province, the wholesomest part of the island, 11.
Education, impetus given to, by Las Casas, 18; the education given by the Jesuits, 19.
Emancipation of the slaves, first steps towards the, 29; its horrible results, 29.
Estates, the large, given to Spaniards, 20; rarely if ever visited by the latter, 20; curious custom on many Cuban estates, 20.
Ferdinand the Catholic, his opinion of the Spanish people, 70.
Filharmonia Theatre, an incident in the, 76; the first appearance of Mme. Patti at the, 143.
Flora, beauty and variety of the, 10; in the forests, 105; some strange flowers, 128; the banyan tree, etc., 148; ferns, 151, 184; the moon-flower, 213; the silk-cotton-tree, 229; the vegetation of New Providence, Bahamas, 231.
Florida, failure of Hernando de Soto's expedition to, 50; given to the English in exchange for Cuba, 60.
Fossils of prehistoric fauna, 6; of human remains, 14.
French Revolution, effects of the, upon the West Indies, 64; remarks upon the, 271.
French settlers, persuade the Cubans to enlarge their sugar plantations, 4; large emigration of, in 1765, 61; they introduce the art of apiculture, 61.