>\. ' Wi ' >i.);f.iij yTTT»r "S^^^^m Et.^5CSt^' fflMMiimiii g.^j^^j ■ r' i^i'\'Ui'M ' *'f W EZ£^S>^^%>j i ni.w it.Ui.i'i'tj*i,J!.\-< \MC> "^ ellie 4j-yov,T. '_\_a Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2011 with funding from Tine Library of Congress http://www.arcliive.org/details/ourartistincubaOOcarl OUR ARTIST IN CUBA. ICARLETON OUR ARTIST IN CUBA FIFTY DRAWINGS ON WOOD. LEAVES FROM THE SKETCH-BOOK OF A TRAVELER, During the Winter of 1864-5, BY GEO. W. CARLETON. '4^. NEW Y O R K : Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway. London : S. Low, Son &* Co. MDCLXV. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by GEO. W. CARLETON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. c:V' ^l^i^iS rc^,s4 CONTENTS. A Preliminary Word. No. Sick Transit - - i Two Boobies - - - - - - - - - 2 A Colored Hercules - - - - ^ - - 3 The Cuban Jehu 4 Iglesia de San Francisco ----- 5 A Cuban Motive - - - 6 An Influenza 7 Flee for Shelter ------- 8 The Ride - - - - g A Cock-fight 10 Rather Cool - - - - -• - - - 11 A Spanish Retreat - - 12 Take your Pick • - 13 Spiders, Rats, and Cockroaches - - - - 14 Belligerents - - - 15 Materfamilias et Filius - - - - - - 16 A Culinary Department 17 A Bundle of Clothes 18 A Button-Smasher - - 19 White Pantaloons - 20 A Carnival Acquaintance 21 Beauty at the Ball 22 A Disappointment 23 Dolce far Niente 24 VI CONTEXTS. No. Locomotion -------- 25 The Spanish Tongl'e 26 An Unwelcome Visitor ------ 27 An Agreeable Bath - - - - - - - 28 A Celestial Maid ------- 29 A Statue on a Bust •50 A Tail Unfolded Put Money in thy Purse - - - - - - 32 Sugar and Water ------- 33 Green Fields and Pastures New - - - - 34 A Segar well-lighted ------ 35 Where Shall Rest be Found 36 All Aboard 37 The Matanzas Cave - 38 A Hard Road to Travel ----- 39 A Shady Retreat - - - - - - - 40 A Spanish Grocer 41 Colored Help - 42 Very. Moorish 43 Chacun a Son Gour - 44 Nature's Sweet Restorer ----- 45 Agricultural 46 A Cot in the Valley - 47 A Colored Beauty 48 Corner Stones -.--..- 49 A Sudden Departure 50 A PRELIMINARY WORD. With many misgivings, the author of this little brochure has been persuaded to give the prominence of publication to a mere pocket-book collection of way-side pen-and- ink sketches, the chance results of idle mo- ments, sandwiched with such Cuban events as paring oranges and sipping from their cups of nectar — tearing through the narrow streets of Havana in ragged volantes — list- ening in the soft moonlight, and arm-in-arm with Cuban senoritas, to the Artillery band in the Plaza des Armas — assisting with dom- ino and false nose at the masquerades in the Tacon Theatre — lounging with ices or dehcious chocolate at the Cafe Dominica — dallying with cigar and fragrant coffee, after the regulation breakfast of codfish, garlic, and onions — snufiing 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 side of Calle Obispo — and so forth, through all the dolce far nientes of a stranger's drift- ing life, among the lights and shadows of the Antilles' Queen. The only merit the pictures possess, perhaps, is their faithfulness to nature. Though chiefly caricatures, they represent such incidents and scenes as every one, with both eyes open, sees, who visits Cuba ; and being sketched upon the spot, with all the crispy freshness of a first impression, they possess a sort of photographic value, that, in spite of their grotesqueness, may prove more lasting than the entertainment which their humor offers. New York, April, 1865. THE START— THE STEAMSHIP COLUxMBlA. AT SEA. First day out.— The wind freshens up a trifle as we j^et outside Sandy Hook ; but our artist says he is 'nt sea-sick, for he never felt better in his life. tN THE GULF OF MEXICO, A " Booby "—as seen/r<7w the ship's deck. A Booby — as seen on the ship's deck. ARRIVAL AT HAVANA. A side elevation of the colored gentleman who cairied our luggage froni the small boat to the Custom House. VIEW FROM OUR WINDOW AT THE HOTEL ALIMY. The old Convent and Bell Tower of the Church of San Francisco, — now used as a Custom House. AT THE CAFE LOUVRE. ]\Tr.nr.err, rnd Customs of a Cuban wUh 2. Cold in his Head. THE [WICKED] FLEA OF HAVANA. Part I. — The beast in a torpid condition. Part II. — When he "smells the blood of an Englishmun." 8 -^ A COCK-FIGHT IN CUBA. I. — Chanticleer as he goes in. II. — Chanticleer considerably " played out. STREETS OF HAVANA.— CALLE LAMPARILLA. The cool and airy style in which tliey dress the rising colored generation of Havana. .-^^^ THE CAPTAIN GENERAL'S QUINTA, View of the Canal and Cocoa Tree ; looking East from the Grotto. 3 ir' B- a STREETS OF HAVANA.— CALLE COMPOSTELLA. The Free Negro. — An evcr}'-clay scene, Mlien the weather is fine. A A>J INTERIOR IN HAVANA. Kitclien, chief-cook and bottle-washer in the establishment of Mrs. Frankc, out on the " Ccrro." HEADS OF THE PEOPLE. A portrait of the young lady, whose family (after con- siderable urging) consents to take in our washing. ^ 9> 0-2 A MASK BALL AT THE TACON. Our artist mixes in the giddy dance, and falls desperately in love with this sweet creature but Lat£r in the evening, When the "sweei creature" unmasks, our Artist suddenly recovers from his fit of admiration. Alas I beauty is but mask deep. 23 24 ^ « S 2 J HOTELS IN HAVANA. A cheerful Chinese Chambermaid (?) at the Fonda de Ingleterra, outside the walls. High art in iIaVana. t A gay (but slightly mutilated) old plaster-of- Paris girl, that I found in one of the avenues of the Bishop's Garden, on the " Cerro." 30 r O a o o 3-. '^ 3 Ci; re at ^ o 3 ^• 1-! <^ o f- M O © ^ O en 3 " i. > i 3 =. 3 3 S 36 J>aBLIC SERVANTS IN CUBA. A gay and festive Chinese brakeman, on the railroad near Guines.— The shirt-collar-and-pair- of-spurs style . of costume. 37 38 a. n ST ;:►. o i £1. 3 3' 3' 9 O ARCHITECTURE IN MATAN2AS. A romantic little tienda mista (grocery store) on a corner, in the Callfe Ona. 2 > O ^ ^:^*^\\!^ wmn PLANTATIONS NEAR MARIANAS. A Colored Beauty toting Sugar Cane from the field to the grinding mill. 48 ARCHITECTURE IN HAVANA. A conglomerate Esquiria, on the comer of Calle Obispo and Monserate. 49 c >