| Shade-grown tobacco in Porto Rico | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE | |
|---|---|
| St. Augustine, Florida, from the old Spanish fortress | 16 |
| A policeman of Havana | 16 |
| Cuba’s new presidential palace | 17 |
| Venders of lottery tickets in rural Cuba | 32 |
| The winning numbers of the lottery | 32 |
| Pigeons are kept to clear the tobacco fields of insects | 33 |
| Ploughing for tobacco in the famous Vuelta Abajo district. The large building is a tobacco barn, the small ones are residences of the planters | 33 |
| A Cuban shoemaker | 56 |
| Cuban soldiers | 56 |
| Matanzas, with drying sisal fiber in the foreground | 57 |
| The Central Plaza of Cienfuegos | 57 |
| A principal street of Santa Clara | 64 |
| The Central Plaza of Santa Clara | 64 |
| A dairyman, Santa Clara district | 65 |
| Cuban town scenery | 65 |
| A Cuban residence in a new clearing | 114 |
| Planting sugar-cane on newly cleared land | 114 |
| Hauling cane to a Cuban sugar-mill | 115 |
| A station of a Cuban pack train | 115 |
| Cuban travelers | 80 |
| A Cuban milkman | 80 |
| A street of Santiago de Cuba | 81 |
| Not all Chinamen succeed in Cuba | 81 |
| The entire enlisted personnel of the Haitian Navy | 112 |
| A school in Port au Prince | 112 |
| The central square and Cathedral of Port au Prince on market day | 113 |
| Looking down upon the market from the cathedral platform | 113 |
| A Haitian gendarme | 128 |
| The president of Haiti | 128 |
| A street in Port au Prince | 129 |
| The unfinished presidential palace of Haiti, on New Year’s Day, 1920 | 129 |
| A Haitian country home | 144 |
| A small portion of one collection of captured caco war material | 144 |
| The caco in the foreground killed an American Marine | 145 |
| Captain Hanneken and “General Jean” Conzé at Christophe’s Citadel | 145 |
| Ruins of the old French estates are to be found all over Haiti | 160 |
| A Haitian wayside store | 160 |
| The market women of Haiti sell everything under the sun—A “General” in a Haitian market | 161 |
| There are still more primitive sugar-mills than these in Haiti | 161 |
| A corner of Christophe’s Citadel. Its situation is such that it could only be well photographed from an airplane | 176 |
| The ruins of Christophe’s palace of San Souci | 176 |
| The mayor, the judge, and the richest man of a Haitian town in the bush | 177 |
| 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 |
| Dominican guardias | 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 Samaná | 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 |
| At the “Asphalt Lake” | 401 |
| There is water, too, in the crevices of the asphalt field | 401 |
| As I passed this group on a Jamaican highway, the woman reading the Bible was saying “So I ax de Lard what I shall do” | 416 |
| “Draw me portrait please, sir!” The load consists of school books and a pair of hobnail shoes | 416 |
| A very frequent sight along the roads of Jamaica | 417 |
| Our baggage following us ashore in one of the French islands | 417 |
| Private graveyards are to be found all over Jamaica | 432 |
| A street of Basse Terre, capital of Guadeloupe | 432 |
| A woman of Guadeloupe | 433 |
| The town criers of Pointe à Pitre | 433 |
| In the outskirts of Guadeloupe’s commercial capital | 448 |
| Fort de France, capital of Martinique | 448 |
| The savane of Fort de France, with the Statue of Josephine, once Empress of the French | 449 |
| Women of Martinique | 464 |
| A principal street of Fort de France with its cathedral | 464 |
| The shops of Martinique are sometimes as gaily garbed as the women | 465 |
| Empress Josephine was born where this house stands | 465 |
| The St. Pierre of to-day with Pélée in the background | 472 |
| The cathedral of St. Pierre | 473 |
| The present residents of St. Pierre tuck their houses into the corners of old stone ruins | 473 |
| The harbor of Curaçao | 480 |
| A woman of Curaçao | 480 |
| The principal Dutch island is not noted for its verdure | 481 |
| A Curaçao landscape | 481 |
| MAP | |
| The itinerary of the author | 48 |