Our artist in Cuba : fifty drawings on wood : leaves from the sketch-book of a traveler, during the winter of 1864-5 . e Cafe Dominica —dallying with cigar and fragrant coffee, afterthe regulation breakfast of codfish, garlic,and onions — snuffing up the perfumed air, Vlll A PRELIMINARY WORD. and strolling through the golden orange-groves of Cafetals —joining in the battle,murder, and sudden death of Marinao cock-fights— vagabondizing along the shady sideof Calle Obispo—and so forth, through allthe dolce far nientes of a strangers drift-ing life, among the lights and shadows ofthe Antilles Que
Our artist in Cuba : fifty drawings on wood : leaves from the sketch-book of a traveler, during the winter of 1864-5 . e Cafe Dominica —dallying with cigar and fragrant coffee, afterthe regulation breakfast of codfish, garlic,and onions — snuffing up the perfumed air, Vlll A PRELIMINARY WORD. and strolling through the golden orange-groves of Cafetals —joining in the battle,murder, and sudden death of Marinao cock-fights— vagabondizing along the shady sideof Calle Obispo—and so forth, through allthe dolce far nientes of a strangers drift-ing life, among the lights and shadows ofthe Antilles Queen. The only merit the pictures possess,perhaps, is their faithfulness to chiefly caricatures, they representsuch incidents and scenes as every one,with both eyes open, sees, who visits Cuba ;and being sketched upon the spot, with allthe crispy freshness of a first impression,they possess a sort of photographic value,that, in spite of their grotesqueness, mayprove more lasting than the entertainmentwhich their humor offers. New York, April, 1865. THE START.—THE STEAMSHIP First day out.—The wind freshens up a trifle as weget outside Sandy Hook; but our artist says heis nt sea-sick, for he never felt better in his life. IN THE GULF OF
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