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AN INTERIOR IN HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Kitchen, chief-cook and bottle-washer in the establishment of Mrs. Franke, out on the "Cerro."]
HEADS OF THE PEOPLE.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A portrait of the young lady, whose family (after considerable urging) consents to take in our was.h.i.+ng.]
PRIMITIVE HABITS OF THE NATIVES.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Was.h.i.+ng in Havana.--$4 00 a dozen in gold.]
WAs.h.i.+NG IN HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: I.--My pantaloons as they went _in_. II.--My pantaloons as they came _out_.]
CARNIVAL IN HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A Masquerade at the Tacon Theatre.--Types of Costume, with a glimpse of the "Cuban Dance" in the background.]
A MASK BALL AT THE TACON.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our artist mixes in the giddy dance, and falls desperately in love with this sweet creature--but]
LATER IN THE EVENING,
[Ill.u.s.tration: When the "sweet creature" unmasks, our Artist suddenly recovers from his fit of admiration. Alas! beauty is but mask deep.]
STREETS OF HAVANA--CALLE OBRAPIA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Cuban Wheelbarrow--In Repose.]
STREETS OF HAVANA--CALLE O'REILLY.
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Cuban Wheelbarrow--In action.]
FIRST HOUR! SECOND HOUR!! THIRD HOUR!!!
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist forms the praiseworthy determination of studying the Spanish language, and devotes three hours to the enterprise.]
BED-ROOMS IN CUBA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Scorpion of Havana,--encountered in his native jungle.]
SEA-BATHS IN HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist having prepared himself for a jolly plunge, inadvertently observes an insect peculiar to the water, and rather thinks he won't go in just now.]
HOTELS IN HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A cheerful Chinese Chambermaid (?) at the Fonda de Ingleterra, outside the walls.]
HIGH ART IN HAVANA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A gay (but slightly mutilated) old plaster-of-Paris girl, that I found in one of the avenues of the Bishop's Garden, on the "Cerro."]
