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[Illustration: The Death of Rodriguez]
Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society Author of "Three Gringos in
Venezuela and Central America," "The Princess Aline," "Gallegher," "Van
Bibber, and Others," "Dr. Jameson's Raiders," etc., etc.
NEW YORK. R. H. RUSSELL 1897 *[Note: Before Spanish-American War]
List of Illustrations
Author's Note
Cuba in War Time
The Fate of the Pacificos
The Death of Rodriguez
Along the Trocha
The Question of Atrocities
The Right of Search of American Vessels
The Death of Rodríguez
A Spanish Soldier
Guerrillas with Captured Pacificos
A Spanish Officer
Insurgents Firing on Spanish Fort
Fire and Sword in Cuba
A Spanish Guerrilla
Murdering the Cuban Wounded
Bringing in the Wounded
Young Spanish Officer
The Cuban Martyrdom
Regular Cavalryman—Spanish
One of the Block Houses
Spanish Cavalry
One of the Forts Along the Trocha
The Trocha
Spanish Troops in Action
Amateur Surgery in Cuba
Scouting Party of Spanish Cavalry
An Officer of Spanish Guerrillas
A Spanish Picket Post
General Weyler in the Field
Spanish Cavalryman on a Texas Broncho
For Cuba Libre
These illustrations were made by Mr. Frederic Remington, from personalobservation while in Cuba, and from photographs, and descriptionsfurnished by eye-witnesses, and are here reproduced through thecourtesy of Mr. W. R. Hearst.
After my return from Cuba many people asked me questions concerning thesituation there, and I noticed that they generally asked the samequestions. This book has been published with the idea of answeringthose questions as fully as is possible for me to do after a journeythrough the island, during which I traveled in four of the sixprovinces, visiting towns, seaports, plantations and military camps,and stopping for several days in all of the chief cities of Cuba, withthe exception of Santiago and Pinar del Rio.
Cuba In War Time
When the revolution bro