Lopez's expeditions to Cuba, 1850 and 1851 . e drew again, and waslucky enough to draw another white bean, so that bothhe and his friend escaped being shot. But few menwould have taken such a desperate chance for life; butnoble-souled Crittenden took it and survived to fightgallantly through the Mexican War and to rise to therank of Brigadier-General in the Confederate such men take up arms as soldiers or filibusters,they command the respect of mankind for honor andcourage, and deserve a place in history. R. T. Durrett, President of The Filson Club. CONTENTS PAGEPART I Cuba 233
Lopez's expeditions to Cuba, 1850 and 1851 . e drew again, and waslucky enough to draw another white bean, so that bothhe and his friend escaped being shot. But few menwould have taken such a desperate chance for life; butnoble-souled Crittenden took it and survived to fightgallantly through the Mexican War and to rise to therank of Brigadier-General in the Confederate such men take up arms as soldiers or filibusters,they command the respect of mankind for honor andcourage, and deserve a place in history. R. T. Durrett, President of The Filson Club. CONTENTS PAGEPART I Cuba 2332 II The Cardenas Expedition Ill The Bahia Honda Expedition 66 A ,_ 121 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE A. C. Quisenberry Frontispiece Lieutenant John Carl Johnston 13 Map of Cuba 23 General Narciso Lopez 28 Colonel Theodore OHara 34 Colonel John T. Pickett 37 • Rose Hill, Ancestral Home of the Picketts 42 Colonel Thomas T. Hawkins 44 Colonel Logan C. Crittenden 73 Moro Castle in Havana 77 Human Bone Heap in Cuban Cemetery 95 Robert H. Breckenridge H1. LOPEZS EXPEDITIONS TOCUBA i CUBA WHEN Columbus discovered Cuba, in 1492, he de-scribed it as the most beautiful land eyesever beheld, and as being fertile almost beyond descrip-tion. He found this lovely island inhabited by a raceof primitive people whom it would hardly be just tocall savages, for, by his own account of them, and byall accounts that have ever been given, they were aloving, gentle, and affectionate race, hospitable and peace-able beyond any people the world has ever known thathistory gives an account of. They had no weapons, andwere totally ignorant of war and It is estimated that when the island was discovered it was peopled by more than four Wind. r ^ J hundred thousand of these gentle natives;yet, in less than a hundred years the whole of them haddisappeared. An entire people had been exterminated,and had vanished from the face of the earth as completely 24 Lopezs Expeditions to Cuba as if they had never bee
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