mine or thine. The humming-bird is evidently of a very different temperament, and is a violent anti-communist.
The heat is now becoming excessive and I feel it so enervating that I think I shall leave Cuba on the 8th of April instead of the 28th, as I had intended. From Cuba I shall proceed to Charleston and Savannah, visit two plantations on the coast of Georgia, and so on to Virginia—the old dominion—which I must see, and where I shall probably spend the month of May; thence to Philadelphia and New York—to my dear home at Rose Cottage—then to the White Mountains in New Hampshire, pay a visit to Maine and Vermont; and thence, in the month of July, to my first beautiful home on the banks of the Hudson; then to England, and then—home!
I am now going for a few days to Cardinas, a little city on the sea-coast; but I shall return hither. The kind Mrs. de C. will lend me her volante.
LETTER XXXIV.
It was at Cardinas that the first senseless robber-expedition against Cuba, under the conduct of Lopez, landed last year, and was repulsed by the bravery of the Spanish army. You are shown holes in the walls made by cannon-balls, and they are now living in daily expectation and fear of a new attack under the same leader, the news of which is just now in circulation, and people are on the alert in consequence, and the city under watch.
Cardinas is a small city built in the same style as Havannah, and carries on a brisk trade in sugar and treacle. It is situated by the sea, but lies so low that it can scarcely be seen from the sea; its harbour is very
