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OUR

ARTIST IN CUBA,

PERU, SPAIN AND ALGIERS.

LEAVES FROM

_THE SKETCH-BOOK OF A TRAVELLER_.

1864-1868.

BY

GEORGE W. CARLETON.

    "Let observation, with expansive view,
     Survey mankind, from China to Peru."

[Illustration]

NEW YORK:

Copyright, 1877, by

_G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers_.

LONDON: S. LOW & CO.

MDCCCLXXVII.

OUR ARTIST, [Illustration: colophon] HIS MARK.




CONTENTS.


        PAGE

CUBA,      5

PERU,     57

SPAIN,   109

ALGIERS, 131

[Illustration]




AN APOLOGY.


The Author of these unpretending little wayside sketches offers them to
the Public with the hesitating diffidence of an Amateur. The publication
a few years ago, of a portion of the drawings was attended with so
flattering a reception, that a new edition being called for, it is
believed a few more Leaves from the same vagabond sketch-book may not be
intrusive.

The out-of-the-way sort of places in which the Author's steps have led
him, must always present the most enticing subjects for a comic pencil;
and although no attempt is here made to much more than hint at the
oranges and volantes of Cuba, the earthquakes and buzzards of Peru, the
donkeys and beggars of Spain, or the Arabs and dates of Algiers, yet
sketches made upon the spot, with the crispy freshness of a first
impression, cannot fail in suggesting at least a panoramic picture of
such grotesque incidents as these strange Countries furnish.

The drawings are merely the chance results of leisure moments; and Our
Artist, in essaying to convey a ray of information through the glasses
of humor, has simply multiplied with printers' ink his pocket-book of
sketches, which, although caricatures, are exaggerations of actual
events, jotted down on the impulse of the moment, for the same sort of
idle pastime as may possibly lead the reader to linger along its
ephemeral pages.

NEW YORK, _Christmas_, 1877.




PART I.


CUBA.

[Illustration: colophon]


CUBAN SKETCHES.


  SICK TRANSIT.          THE SPANISH TONGUE.

  TWO BOOBIES.           AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.

  A  HERCULES.    AN AGREEABLE BATH.

  THE CUBAN JEHU.        A CELESTIAL MAID.

  IGLESIA SAN FRANCISCO. A STATUE ON A BUST.

  A CUBAN MOTIVE.        A TAIL UNFOLDED.

  AN INFLUENZA.          MONEY IN THY PURSE.

  FLEE FOR SHELTER.      SUGAR AND WATER.

  THE RIDE.              GREEN FIELDS.

  A COCK-FIGHT.          A SEGAR WELL-LIGHTED.

  RATHER COOL.           SHALL REST BE FOUND.

  TAKE YOUR PICK.        ALL ABOARD.

  A SPANISH RETREAT.     THE MATANZAS CAVE.

  SPIDERS AND RATS.      HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL.

  BELLIGERENTS.          A SHADY RETREAT.

  MATERFAMILIAS.         A SPANISH GROCER.

  CULINARY DEPARTMENT.    HELP.

  A BUNDLE OF CLOTHES.   VERY MOORISH.

  A BUTTON-SMASHER.      CHACUN A SON GOUT.

  WHITE PANTALOONS.      NATURE'S RESTORER.

  CARNIVAL ACQUAINTANCE. AGRICULTURAL.

  BEAUTY AT THE BALL.    A COT IN THE VALLEY.

  A DISAPPOINTMENT.      A  BEAUTY.

  DOLCE FAR NIENTE.      CORNER STONES.

  LOCOMOTION.            A SUDDEN DEPARTURE.




THE START.--THE STEAMSHIP COLUMBIA. AT SEA.

[Illustration: First day out.--The wind freshens up a trifle as we get
outside Sandy Hook; but our artist says he is'nt sea-sick, for he never
felt better in his life.]




IN THE GULF OF MEXICO.

[Illustration: A "Booby"--as seen _from_ the ship's deck.]

[Illustration: A "Booby"--as seen _on_ the ship's deck.]




ARRIVAL AT HAVANA.

[Illustration: A side elevation of the <DW52> gentleman who carried our
luggage from the small boat to the Custom House.]




STREETS OF HAVANA.--CALLE MERCADERES.

[Illustration: The first volante driver that our artist saw in Havana.]




VIEW FROM OUR WINDOW AT THE HOTEL ALMY.

[Illustration: The old Convent and Bell Tower of the Church of San
Francisco,--now used as a Custom House.]




STREETS OF HAVANA.--CALLE TENIENTE RE.

[Illustration: A Cuban Cart and its Motive Power.--Ye patient Donkey.]




AT THE CAFE LOUVRE.

[Illustration: Manners and Customs of a Cuban with a Cold in his Head.]




THE [WICKED] FLEA OF HAVANA.

[Illustration: PART I.--The beast in a torpid condition.]

[Illustration: PART II.--When he "smells the blood of an Englishmun."]




THE NATIONAL VEHICLE OF HAVANA.

[Illustration: Manner and Custom of Harnessing ye Animiles to ye Cuban
Volante.]




A COCK-FIGHT IN CUBA.

[Illustration: I.--Chanticleer as he goes in.]

[Illustration: II.--Chanticleer considerably "played out."]




STREETS OF HAVANA.--CALLE LAMPARILLA.

[Illustration: The cool and airy style in which they dress the rising
 generation of Havana.]




THE CUBAN TOOTH-PICK.

[Illustration: Two ways of carrying it--behind the ear, and in the
back-hair.]




THE CAPTAIN GENERAL'S QUINTA.

[Illustration: View of the Canal and Cocoa Tree; looking East from the
Grotto.]




THE DOMESTIC INSECTS OF HAVANA.

[Illustration: Ag