Political Essay on the Island of Cuba

Kutzinski, Vera M.; Ette, Ottmar; Humboldt, Alexander von

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“…56 Humboldt himself refers to his stay in Gu¨ines and perhaps in Rı´o Blanco del Sur, calling it: 'my mansion in the plains of Gu¨ines, in 1804'. 57 One particular enigma remains: the place that Humboldt calls 'San Antonio de Beitia'. Humboldt writes in his Political Essay 'in the caves of limestone rock near San Antonio de Beitia' and refers to this place again in the ' Table of Geographical Positions for Island of Cuba'.…”

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“…42 It is true that in his Political Essay Humboldt describes the parishes 'with the most sugar plantations', which is what became Cuba grande, as: Matanzas with Naranjal, or Cuba Mocha and Yumurı´; Rı´o Blanco del Norte with Madruga, Jibacoa, and Tapaste; Jaruco, Gu¨ines, and Managua with Rı´o Blanco del Sur, San Gero´nimo and, Canoa; Guanabacoa with Bajurayabo and Sibarimo´n; Batabano´with Guara and Buenaventura; San Antonio with Gobea; Guanajay with Bahı´a Honda and Guaijabo´n; Cano with Bauta and Guatao; Santiago with Wajay and Trinidad. 43 But did Humboldt visit all these places personally?…”

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“…Humboldt writes in his Political Essay 'in the caves of limestone rock near San Antonio de Beitia' and refers to this place again in the ' Table of Geographical Positions for Island of Cuba'. 58 Nowadays there is only one municipal district in San Antonio de las Vegas called San Jose´de Beitia. Branly believes, based on Francisco Calcagno's work, that this is the cave of Candela, in the Candela foothills (on the way from Havana to Gu¨ines).…”

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“…39 In the appendix of the Political Essay, Humboldt adds: 'As for the interior of the island of Cuba, it is a terra incognita, except for the triangle between Bahı´a Honda, Matanzas, and the Batabano´Surgidero [outlet].' 40 It seems that Humboldt was aware of the incompleteness of his knowledge about the island: in a letter to his brother he glossed over that incompleteness by writing of arriving in Trinidad 'at the most 350…”

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“…I was privileged to enjoy the trust of people who, by their talents and their position as administrators, property owners, or businessmen, were all well placed to furnish me with information about Cuba's growing public wealth.' 22 During this first stay the travellers were, according to Ortiz, lodged in the houses and sugarmills of 'the Cuesta Family' (Cuesta and Manzanal), 23 'the Count of O'Reilly' (O'Reilly and de las Casas), 24 'the Count of Jaruco [and Mopox]' (Beltra´n de Santa Cruz y Ca´rdenas), 25 and 'the Marquis of Real Socorro' (Beitia and Castro). 26 The Cuesta house was on Calle Mercaderes, facing the Plaza Vieja, 27 and the O'Reilly house (which no longer exists) was located at the park on Calle Oficios, close to the Humboldt statue and what is called Casa Humboldt.…”

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n a n d i n i d a s 'A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine', begins one of the most ambitious poems of sixteenth-century England, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590). 1 Within the European literary canon, epics like the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and the Argonautica had all begun, in some way, with the promise of a journey. No stranger to that classical heritage, which a humanist education inculcated in all its students, Spenser brought travel back home: his knight, familiar enough to English readers with their still insatiable appetite for medieval romances and their characteristic quests, sets forth in a Faerie land that is not-quite-England. Spenser was not the only one. The revised and much-augmented second version of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in 1593 memorably begins with two shepherds being interrupted in their pastoral laments by a 'thing' that floats closer and closer to the shore, till it turns out to be the shipwrecked, but still living, body of one of the two protagonists. 2 It is a moment that merges two worlds: the seclusion of the European pastoral tradition and the sprawling geopolitical world of Greek romances like Heliodorus's Aethiopica, shaped by the crosscurrents of ancient global traffic. By the end of the century, on the English popular stage, a play that we now think of as representative of a certain nascent early modern sensibility would turn to its denouement with the arrival of a travel letter:horatio: What are they that would speak with me? servant: Seafaring men, sir. They say they have letters for you. 3

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Political Essay on the Island of Cuba

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