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Title: History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics
Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of
the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time

Author: Maturin M. Ballou

Release Date: June 14, 2010 [EBook #32812]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ENTRANCE TO THE HARBOR OF HAVANA.]

SIXTH THOUSAND.

HISTORY OF CUBA;

OR,

Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics.

BEING A

POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE
ISLAND, FROM ITS FIRST DISCOVERY TO THE
PRESENT TIME.

BY

MATURIN M. BALLOU.

L'ILE DE CUBA SEULE POURRAIT VALOIR UN ROYAUME.

_L'Abbe Raynal._

ILLUSTRATED.

BOSTON:
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY.
NEW YORK: J.C. DERBY.

PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO & COMPANY.

1854.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Stereotyped by
HOBART & ROBBINS,
New England Type and Stereotype Foundery
BOSTON.

TO
His Friend,
FRANCIS A. DURIVAGE, ESQ.,
As a small Token of Regard for
HIS EXCELLENCE IN THOSE QUALITIES WHICH CONSTITUTE STERLING MANHOOD;
AS A TRUE AND WORTHY FRIEND; AS A RIPE SCHOLAR, AND A GRACEFUL AUTHOR,
This Volume
IS
CORDIALLY DEDICATED
BY
THE AUTHOR

PREFACE.

The remarkable degree of interest expressed on all sides, at the present
time, relative to the island of Cuba, has led the author of the
following pages to place together in this form a series of notes from
his journal, kept during a brief residence upon the island. To these he
has prefixed a his