{"product_id":"2940015861532","title":"A TRIP TO CUBA","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP.                                                               PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. THE DEPARTURE                                                       1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. NASSAU                                                            10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. FROM NASSAU TO CUBA                                              20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV. THE HARBOR OF HAVANA                                              30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. HAVANA--THE HOTELS                                                 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. HAVANA--YOUR BANKER--OUR CONSUL--THE FRIENDLY CUP OF TEA          48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII. HAVANA--THE JESUIT COLLEGE                                       57\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. SAN ANTONIO DE LOS BAÑOS                                        66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX. THE MORRO FORTRESS--THE UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA--THE BENEFICENZA     79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX. CAN GRANDE'S DEPARTURE--THE DOMINICA--LOTTERY-TICKETS              94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXI. COMPANY AT THE HOTEL--SERVANTS--OUR DRIVE--DON PEPE              111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXII. MATANZAS                                                        132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIII. THE PASEO--THE PLAZA--DINING OUT                               145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIV. GAME-CHICKENS--DON RODRIGUEZ--DAY ON THE PLANTATION--DEPARTURE  157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXV. RETURN TO HAVANA--SAN ANTONIO AGAIN                              177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVI. SAN ANTONIO--CHURCH ON SUNDAY--THE NORTHER--THE S. FAMILY       190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVII. EDUCATION--LAST NIGHT IN SAN ANTONIO--FAREWELL                 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. SLAVERY--CUBAN SLAVE LAWS, INSTITUTIONS, ETC.                 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIX. FAREWELL!                                                       238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA TRIP TO CUBA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DEPARTURE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy one leaves home at all is a question that travellers are sure,\u003cbr\u003esooner or later, to ask themselves,--I mean, pleasure-travellers. Home,\u003cbr\u003ewhere one has the \"Transcript\" every night, and the \"Autocrat\" every\u003cbr\u003emonth, opera, theatre, circus, and good society, in constant\u003cbr\u003erotation,--home, where everybody knows us, and the little good there is\u003cbr\u003eto know about us,--finally, home, as seen regretfully for the last time,\u003cbr\u003ewith the gushing of long frozen friendships, the priceless kisses of\u003cbr\u003echildren, and the last sad look at dear baby's pale face through the\u003cbr\u003ewindow-pane,--well, all this is left behind, and we review it as a\u003cbr\u003edream, while the railroad-train hurries us along to the spot where we\u003cbr\u003eare to leave, not only this, but Winter, rude tyrant, with all our\u003cbr\u003eprecious hostages in his grasp. Soon the swift motion lulls our brains\u003cbr\u003einto the accustomed muddle. We seem to be dragged along like a miserable\u003cbr\u003ethread pulled through the eye of an everlasting needle,--through and\u003cbr\u003ethrough, and never through,--while here and there, like painful knots,\u003cbr\u003ethe _dépôts_ stop us, the poor thread is arrested for a minute, and then\u003cbr\u003ethe pulling begins again. Or, in another dream, we are like fugitives\u003cbr\u003ethreading the gauntlet of the grim forests, while the ice-bound trees\u003cbr\u003eessay a charge of bayonets on either side; but, under the guidance of\u003cbr\u003eour fiery Mercury, we pass them as safely as ancient Priam passed the\u003cbr\u003eoutposts of the Greeks,--and New York, hospitable as Achilles, receives\u003cbr\u003eus in its mighty tent. Here we await the \"Karnak,\" the British Mail\u003cbr\u003eCompany's new screw-steamer, bound for Havana, _viâ_ Nassau. At length\u003cbr\u003ecomes the welcome order to \"be on board.\" We betake ourselves\u003cbr\u003ethither,--the anchor is weighed, the gun fired, and we take leave of our\u003cbr\u003enative land with a patriotic pang, which soon gives place to severer\u003cbr\u003espasms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI do not know why all celebrated people who write books of travels begin\u003cbr\u003eby describing their days of sea-sickness. Dickens, George Combe, Fanny\u003cbr\u003eKemble, Mrs. Stowe, Miss Bremer, and many others, have opened in like\u003cbr\u003emanner their valuable remarks on foreign countries. While intending to\u003cbr\u003eavail myself of their privilege and example, I would nevertheless\u003cbr\u003esuggest, for those who may come after me, that the subject of\u003cbr\u003esea-sickness should be embalmed in science, and enshrined in the crypt\u003cbr\u003eof some modern encyclopædia, so that future writers should refer to it\u003cbr\u003eonly as the Pang Unspeakable, for which _vide_ Ripley and Dana, vol.,\u003cbr\u003epage. But, as I have already said, I shall speak of sea-sickness in a\u003cbr\u003ehurried and picturesque manner, as follows:--","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146378002672,"sku":"2940015861532","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015861532","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}