trade with Cuba, 97, 113; Cuban forests, 104; economic condition of, 114; C. Spain's death-trap, 115; description of Havana, 121; Marianao, 148; the cafés and restaurants of Cuba, 155; Cienfuegos, 161; Trinidad, 172; backward state of the plantations, 174; Santiago de Cuba, 179; the newspapers of, 189; a Cuban plantation, 205; the beauty of the Cuban night, 212; a Cuban household, 214. _Cubana_, the dance, 141. Cubanos, or Cubans, filthy habits of the, 11; descent from early Spanish settlers, 17; characteristics of the, 18; Voltarian and free-thinking works read by the, during the Napoleonic Era, 19; many, educated, 19; the C. not permitted to share in the Government until twenty years ago, 20; C. who live for generations on one plantation, 20; a very domestic people, 21; isolation of the children, 21; premature marriages, 21; laxity of morals among the, 21; morbid literature read by the, 21; the drama, 22; their love of music, 23; their large families, 24; the piety of the women, 24; insincerity of the, in their religion, 24; their contract with foreign ideas, 71; their wish to be represented in the Cortes at Madrid, 71; they petition Queen Isabella to appoint a Commission to enquire into the state of the island, 81; C. in official positions, 112; the Carnival in Havana, 139; their theatricals, 144; the Guajiros, 162; early habits of the C. 168; why they differ with the Spaniards, 176; a Cuban funeral, 200; a young Cuban lady, 215; their partiality for smoking, 222. Cucullo, the, 8. D. DECKER, MR, and the Miss Cisneros incident, 118. Dinner, a Cuban, 154. Dogs, 6; the tiny spaniel and the colossal molasso, 6. Drains, abominable condition of the, 11. Drake, Sir Francis, appears off Cuba, 54. Duck-hunt, a, 170. "Dutchman's pipe," the, 150. Dysentery among European colonists, 10. E. EARTHQUAKES, 3. Eastern Province, the wholesomest part of the island, 11. Education, impetus given to, by Las Casas, 18; the education given by the Jesuits, 19. Emancipation of the slaves, first steps towards the, 29; its horrible results, 29. Estates, the large, given to Spaniards, 20; rarely if ever visited by the latter, 20; curious custom on many Cuban estates, 20. F. FAN, the language of the, 138. Ferdinand the Catholic, his opinion of the Spanish people, 70. Fernandina, 39. Filharmonia Theatre, an incident in the, 76; the first appearance of Mme. Patti at the, 143. Fish, 6; tropical, 8. Flora, beauty and variety of the, 10; in the forests, 105; some strange flowers, 128; the banyan tree, etc., 148; ferns, 151, 184; the moon-flower, 213; the silk-cotton-tree, 229; the vegetation of New Providence, Bahamas, 231. Florida, failure of Hernando de Soto's expedition to, 50; given to the English in exchange for Cuba, 60. Foreign residents, 20. Forests, Cuban, 4, 104.