The Mambi-land: Or, Adventures of a Herald Correspondent in Cuba |
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Page 12 - The land of the Mambi is to the world a shadow-land, full of doubts and unrealities. It is a legend, and yet a fact. It is called by many names, yet few know where begins or ends its frontier.
Page 159 - ... families were shivering in Siberian wastes ; Frenchmen, whose kith and kin had been sent to a better world by the blood-stained mountebank who dissipated Lamartine's poetic republic with artillery volleys ; and many others of the same genus, — but, until I listened to Cubans giving vent to their hate of Spain, I never had any conception with what diabolical hatred one nation can look upon another.
Page 64 - ... besides, it is almost impossible to replace him, as the demand surpasses, by ever so much, the supply. Knowing this, it did not much surprise me when the director asserted that, except in extreme cases, it was not the custom on the estate to resort to severe corporal punishment.
Page 62 - The planters grow enormously rich, and become millionaires at the expense of the tears and misery of the wretches who toil for their benefit. That such a system can be permitted to exist among men pretending to be civilized is an outrage on the common conscience of mankind.
Page 246 - The blood of our fathers and our brothers, and of helpless, defenseless families, slaughtered in cold blood, forbids our ever accepting any conditions from the Spaniards. They must go away and leave us in peace, or continue the war until we are all dead or they have been exterminated.
Page 271 - From what has already been stated, it may be inferred that the silk manufacture was always an exotic in England.
Page 150 - I would regret it very much also; but if you are found in the insurgent lines, or coming from them, you will be treated as a spy or as one of the insurgents.
Page 202 - Every tree and flower and grass had a use or virtue with which they seemed acquainted/
Page 316 - It was a dangerous game to play with the authorities, but it was of the utmost importance that I should be able to gain time, so as to communicate with Havana.
Page 222 - Whenever the encampment is established for even a few days this passion [for dance] must be satisfied. The families scattered about in the woods seem to know by instinct when a long halt is to be made and crowd in to meet parents, husbands, and lovers. The commander of the forces immediately organizes the baile, and while the troops remain, dancing takes place nightly