Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Part 2

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."]