Clergy, the, of the rebel army, 109. Cleveland, President, tries to prevent filibustering expeditions to Cuba, 99. Climate, 2 (in note); is tolerable, 10; 108. Coaches in Havana, 131. Cock-fighting in Cuba, 145; a century ago, 275. Cocoa, 4; the plant, 213. Coffee, was one of the principal products, 3; replaced by the sugar cane, 69; a coffee plantation, 213. Columbus, Christopher, first sights the New World, 38; lands at Fernandina, 39; the wonders he encounters, 39; his followers grow clamorous for gold, 40; the imaginery Quinsai, 40; he discovers Cuba, 40; and takes possession of it in the names of the Spanish sovereigns, 41; convinced that it is the Cipango described by Marco Polo, 42; believes Cuba to be a part of the mainland, 43; said to have landed at British Honduras, 44; Columbus and the native, 46; visits the island twice again, 49; the journeyings of his remains, 133; his enthusiastic description of New Providence, 225; his birthplace, 237; and parents, 238; the house in which he was born, 240; his brothers, 241; first goes to sea, 244; his education, 244; the sports he played when a child, 254. Columbus, Diego, Governor of Hispaniola, 49. Cook, the Cuban, 124. Cookery, Cuban, 155. Coolie labour, 36. Cuba, Island of, its shape and size, I; mountains, 2; position and weather, 2 (in note); coffee and tobacco once the chief articles of cultivation, 3; French settlers persuade the Cubans to extend their sugar plantations, 4; other products, 4; navigable rivers, 5; animals and reptiles, 7; disagreeable insects, 8; flora, 10; climate, 10; filthy drains, 11; its prehistoric inhabitants, 14; present population and inhabitants, 16; laws, 17; first appearance of the Inquisition on the island, 18; Las Casas gives an impetus to education, 18; state of chaos in, during the Napoleonic period, 19; overrun by Americans, 19; society in, 23; first sighted by Columbus, 40; its numerous names, 41 (in note); its beauties in the eyes of its Discoverer, 41; first circumnavigated, 49; Diego Velasquez sent to, 49; he founds Havana, Santiago de Cuba, etc., 49; Hernando Cortez in, 49; C. during the buccaneering period, 51; Drake appears off, 54; prosperity of, at the beginning of the 18th century, 59; taken by the English under the Duke of Albemarle in 1762, 60; large French emigration to, 61; administration of Don Luis Las Casas, 63; effect of the Revolution upon, 66; bad times for, 68; opening of the Cuban ports, 68; "Cuba la Sempre Fiel," 69; the beneficent government of Tacon, 72; the prosperity of, declining, 73; the first indications of rebellion, 74; offers to purchase C., 77; C. in 1860, 79; the state of the island going from bad to worse, 81; result of the work of the Commission appointed to enquire into the affairs of, 81; Maximo Gomez, Commander-in-Chief of the rebel army, 93; U.S.