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Ebook has 823 lines and 224479 words, and 17 pages
Cockfighting is a favorite Haitian sport 177
The plaza and clock tower of Monte Cristo, showing its American bullet hole 192
Railroading in Santo Domingo 192
The tri-weekly train arrives at Santiago 193
Gen. Deciderio Arias, now a cigar maker, whose revolution finally caused American intervention in Santo Domingo 208
A bread seller of Santo Domingo 208
The church within a church of Moca 209
The "holy place" of Santo Domingo on top of the Santo Cerro where Columbus planted a cross 209
A Dominican switch engine 224
A Dominican hearse 224
American Marines on the march 225
A riding horse of Saman? 225
Advertising a typical Dominican theatrical performance 240
A tree to which Columbus tied one of his ships, now on the wharf of Santo Domingo City 240
The tomb of Columbus in the cathedral of Santo Domingo City 241
Ponce de Leon's palace now flies the Stars and Stripes 256
Thousands of women work in the fields in Porto Rico 256
Air-plants grow even on the telegraph wires in Ponce 257
A hat seller of Cabo Rojo 257
There is school accommodation for only half the children of our Porto Rico 272
The home of a lace-maker in Aguadilla 273
The Porto Rican method of making lace 273
The place of pilgrimage for pious Porto Ricans 288
Porto Rican children of the coast lands 288
The old sugar-kettles scattered through the West Indies have many uses 289
A corner in Aguadilla 289
The priest in charge of Porto Rico's place of pilgrimage 296
One reason why cane-cutters cannot all be paid the same wages 296
A procession of strikers in honor of representatives of the A. F. of L. 297
"How many of you are on strike?" asked Senator Iglesias 297
The new church of Guayama, Porto Rico 304
A Porto Rican ex-soldier working as road peon. He gathers the grass with a wooden hook and cuts it with a small sickle 304
Porto Rican tobacco fields 305
Charlotte Amalie, capital of our Virgin Islands 305
A corner of Charlotte Amalie 320
Picking sea-island cotton, the second of St. Croix products 320
A familiar sight in St. Croix, the ruins of an old sugar mill and the stone tower of its cane-grinding windmill 321
A cistern in which rain water is stored for drinking purposes 321
Roseau, capital of beautiful Dominica 352
A woman of Dominica bringing a load of limes down from the mountain 352
Kingstown, capital of St. Vincent 353
Trafalgar Square, Bridgetown, Barbados, with its statue of Nelson 353
The Prince of Wales lands in Barbados 368
The principal street of Bridgetown, decorated in honor of its royal visitor 368
Barbadian porters loading hogsheads of sugar always take turns riding back to the warehouse 369
There is an Anglican Church of this style in each of the eleven parishes of Barbados 369
The turn-out of most Barbadians 384
A Barbadian windmill 385
Two Hindus of Trinidad 385
Trinidad has many Hindu temples 400
Very much of a lodge 400
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