... HISTORY OF CUBA.CHAPTER XVI. 19 History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller by Maturin M. Ballou The Project Gutenberg EBook of History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics, by Maturin ... of the Gulf Havanafortified The tyrant Velasquez Office of captain-general Loyalty of the Cubans Power of the captain-general Cupidity of the government The slave-trade The British take Havana ... but the assertion of the discoverers. The island was politically divided into nine provinces, namely, Baracoa, Bayaguitizi, Macaca, Bayamo,CHAPTER I. 21Camaguey, Jagua, Cueyba, Habana and Haniguanica....