CONTENTS vii 



PART III. 



HOME BY THE SPANISH MAIN. 



TAGE 



Independence Day at Havana — Position of tlie Americans in 

 Cuba — Now and To-morrow — Impressions of the Cubans 

 — Havana Harbour — Journey by Rail through Cuba — 

 Industries of the Island — Santiago — Steamer to Kingston 

 — Jamaica's Railroads — The Americans and the Banana 

 Trade — Prospects of American Anne.xation — The 

 Jamaica Nigger — Montego Bay — Moneague — Visit to 

 Cattle Pens — Polo in the Island — On an American Fruit 

 Steamer to Port Antonio — Mosquitoes — Sea and River 

 Fishing in Jamaica — R.M.S. Tagtcs — Kingston's Disaster 

 — Colon and the Isthmus — Over the Ancon Hospital with 

 Colonel Gorgas — Impressions of the Canal — Visit to the 

 Culebra Cut with Mr Sullivan — The Labour Difficulty — 

 Political Considerations — Hygienic Work Done by the 

 Americans — Cartagena and its Memories of the Inquisi- 

 tion — Big Fish at Porto Colombia — Great Heat at La 

 Guaira — Memories of Westward Ho! — Humming- 

 Birds for the Zoo — Beauty of Port of Spain — Bracing 

 Climate of Barbados — Fighting Niggers and Delicious 

 Flying - Fish — The Tagus captured in the Naval 

 Manoeuvres ...... 180-262 



INDEX ..... . 263-272 



