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Sick Transit.        The Spanish Tongue. Two Boobies.        An Unwelcome Visitor. A Colored Hercules.        An Agreeable Bath. The Cuban Jehu.        A Celestial Maid. Iglesia San Francisco.        A Statue on a Bust. A Cuban Motive.        A Tail Unfolded. An Influenza.        Money in thy Purse. Flee for Shelter.        Sugar and Water. The Ride.        Green Fields. A Cock-fight.        A Segar well-lighted. Rather Cool.        Shall Rest be Found. Take your Pick.        All Aboard. A Spanish Retreat.        The Matanzas Cave. Spiders and Rats.        Hard Road to Travel. Belligerents.        A Shady Retreat. Materfamilias.        A Spanish Grocer. Culinary Department.        Colored Help. A Bundle of Clothes.        Very Moorish. A Button-Smasher.        Chacun a Son Gout. White Pantaloons.        Nature's Restorer. Carnival Acquaintance.              Agricultural. Beauty at the Ball.        A Cot in the Valley. A Disappointment.        A Colored Beauty. Dolce far Niente.        Corner Stones. Locomotion.        A Sudden Departure.

THE START.—THE STEAMSHIP COLUMBIA.
AT SEA.

First day out.—The wind freshens up a trifle as we get outside Sandy Hook; but our artist says he is'nt sea-sick, for he never felt better in his life.

IN THE GULF OF MEXICO.

A "Booby"—as seen from the ship's deck.

A "Booby"—as seen on the ship's deck.

ARRIVAL AT HAVANA.

A side elevation of the colored gentleman who carried our luggage from the small boat to the Custom House.

STREETS OF HAVANA.—CALLE MERCADERES.

The first volante driver that our artist saw in Havana.

VIEW FROM OUR WINDOW AT THE HOTEL ALMY.

The old Convent and Bell Tower of the Church of San Francisco,—now used as a Custom House.

STREETS OF HAVANA.—CALLE TENIENTE RE.

A Cuban Cart and its Motive Power.—Ye patient Donkey.

AT THE CAFE LOUVRE.

Manners and Customs of a Cuban with a Cold in his Head.

THE [WICKED] FLEA OF HAVANA.

PART I.—The beast in a torpid condition. PART II.—When he "smells the blood of an Englishmun."

THE NATIONAL VEHICLE OF HAVANA.

Manner and Custom of Harnessing ye Animiles to ye Cuban Volante.

A COCK-FIGHT IN CUBA.

I.—Chanticleer as he goes in.

II.—Chanticleer considerably "played out."

STREETS OF HAVANA.—CALLE LAMPARILLA.

The cool and airy style in which they dress the rising colored generation of Havana.

THE CUBAN