Among other places visited was Constant Spring Hotel, once the plantation residence and property of one of my uncles.

At Port Antonio, on the north side of the island, is a very fine up-to-date American hotel, which of course was greatly appreciated after the vile caravanserais of Central America.

Thence on to Cuba, the steamer passing through the famous narrows leading to Santiago.

A pleasant daylight railroad run through the whole island brought me to the great city of Havana, not, as it appeared to me, a handsome or attractive city, but possessing a good climate and a polite and agreeable population.

The principal shopping street in Havana is so narrow that awnings can be, and are, stretched completely across it.