Secret societies formed, 67; branches in America, 98. Shea, Sir Ambrose, Governor of the Bahamas, 232. Shopping in Havana, mode of, 127. Sierra de Cobre, 3. Sierra Maestra, 1; resemblance to Genoese Riviera, 2; its peaks, 2. Silk-cotton-tree, the, 229. Slaves, female, 28; the trade, 29; the first steps towards their emancipation, and its horrible consequences, 29; continued sale of, notwithstanding the law, 30; their idea of freedom, 30; laws to protect the, 31; inhuman torture of, 32; the household slaves, 33; their long hours of labour, 34; slavery and religion, 34; slavery replaced by coolie labour, 37; large importation of, 73; an arrangement for freeing them, 82; laws against them, 261; advertisements for the sale of, 271; good treatment of the, 270. Society, Cuban, 23. Sores, Jacob, the adventures of, 53. Soto, Hernando de, his ill-fated expedition to Florida, 50; he rebuilds Havana, 53. Spain aids the American revolutionists, 62; mistaken policy of, with regard to Cuba, 66; her revolting colonies, 67; revolution in S., 90; maladministration of, in Cuba, 112. Spaniards in the island, 17; bigotry of, 18; S. and Cubans compared, 18; their way of living, 25; their cruelty, 47; hatred in which they were held in the West Indies, 51; dissipation of the Spanish landowners, 175. Springs, fresh, 6. Stories of the Obi, strange, 194. Sucking-pig, the universal love of, 217. Sugar, French colonists persuade greater growth of, 4; sugar canes take the place of coffee, 69; depreciation in value of, 114; backward state of the plantations, 174; description of a s. plantation, 208; how sugar is made, 211. Superstitions, Cuban, 193. T. TACON, the good administration of, 72. Tacon, Theatre, the orchestra of the, 36; the Carnival ball at the, 140; description of the, 142; great singers at the, 143. Theatres in the West Indies, 274. Tobacco, one of the chief products, 3; some of the best plantations in British hands, 26; the trade in a bad state, 114; the story of, 218; Cuban, 219; the tobacco industry, 221. Tom-tom, the, 36. Torrecillas Theatre, the, 144. Tortoise-hunting, 8. Tortuga, Island of, the headquarters of the buccaneers, 52. Torture of slaves, inhuman, 32. Trinidad de Cuba, founded by Diego Velasquez in 1513, 171; the starting place of Cortez on his expedition to Mexico, 171. Turquino, the highest point in Cuba, 178. Twilight, no, in Cuban latitudes, 174. U. UNITED STATES, the, wish to annex Cuba by purchase, 78; will not recognise the Cuban Republic, 88; another proposal for the purchase of the island, 88; indignation in, over the "Virginius" affair, 89; importance of Cuba to the, 95; her trade with Cuba, 97, 113. University of Havana established in 1721, 18; several chairs created by Las Casas, 19; almost entirely governed by Cubans, 112. V.