CHAPTER

CONTENTS

I. THE CARIBBEAN WORLD-YESTERDAY

-TO-DAY-TO-MORROW

II.

CUBA-FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER

III.

THE BLACK REPUBLIC

IV. THE BLACK REPUBLIC-Continued

V. THE TRUTH ABOUT VOODOO

VI.

PROTÉGÉ

VENEZUELA TO-DAY

THE TRUTH ABOUT VOODOO-Con-

Continued

XIV. THE FRENCH ISLANDS

XV. PORTO RICO-OUR POLITICAL

tinued.

VII. SANTO DOMINGO-OUR FINANCIAL

VIII.

IX. THE STORY OF CASTRO

X. COLOMBIA AND THE SPANISH MAIN

XI. CARTAGENA AND THE LOYAL NORTH

AMERICANS

XII. THE ORPHANS OF THE CONQUEST

XIII. THE ORPHANS OF THE CONQUEST—

PENDIX

XVI.

MEXICO AFTER DIAZ

XVII. THE Conquest of the Isthmus

XVIII. THE USUFRUCT OF THE WEST INDIES

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APPENDIX A

Note

Note

APPENDIX C

I-Cuban Budget .

II-The Platt Amendment

APPENDIX B

Note

I-Hayti in History

Note II-Record of Political Troubles

Note III-Government of Hayti

Note IV-Commerce and Industry

Note I-U. S. Convention with the

Dominican Republic

Note II The Dominican Republic.

Note III-Commerce

Note I-The British Islands

Note II-Population

Note III-The Race Question

APPENDIX H-The Dutch Islands

APPENDIX I

Note IV-Industries

Note V-Address of Secretary Knox

APPENDIX D-Venezuela

APPENDIX E

Note

Note I-The French Islands.

Note II-Financial Condition

Note III-General Conditions

I-The United States of Co-

lombia

Note II-Table of Political Troubles

APPENDIX F-The Danish West Indies .

APPENDIX G

APPENDIX J

Note I-Imports to Panama

Note II-U. S. Treaty with Panama.

APPENDIX K-Canal Legislation and the Hay-

Pauncefote Treaty

APPENDIX L-Our Policy in Central America

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

COLUMBUS MONUMENT, CRISTOBAL, CANAL
ZONE

THE CITY OF HAVANA, FROM CABANAS FOR

TRESS

A WAYSIDE SCENE, PORTO RICO
CULEBRA CUT, CULEBRA, PANAMA
THE CATHEDRAL PLAZA, PANAMA
THE WATER-GATES AT GATUN
THE GATUN LOCKS AND DAM

THE PRADO, HAVANA

THE RUINS OF SANS-SOUCI, HAYTI
THE CATHEDRAL AT PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAYTI
STREET SCENE IN CURACAO, WEST INDIES
MARKET PLACE AT CARACAS, VENEZUELA
STATUE OF SIMON BOLIVAR, CARACAS
OPERA HOUSE, CARACAS, VENEZUELA
CALLE DE LAZADO, CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA
GENERAL VIEW OF ST. THOMAS, DANISH WEST

INDIES

Frontispiece
Facing
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MAPS

MAP OF PANAMA AND OF THE CANAL ZONE
MAP OF THE WEST INDIES

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