Michigan Historical Reprint Series

Santo Domingo, Past and Present, with a Glance at Hayti. Michigan Historical Reprint Series

the author of these pages makes not pretense to be the 'historian' of St. Domingo; his only endeavour in making this volume is to bring together in a continuous and condensed form, for the benefit of the general reader, the facts connected with the history of the island form its discovery by Columbus to the present time (1873), illustrating, as much as possible, its scenes and people by his own sketches, and photographs and engravings gathered from various sources. The map accompanying the work is compiled from the one ordered by the Dominican Government in 1858, from the surveys and data of Baron Schomburgh and the French engineer Mendez, the latest and most reliable chart of the entire island yet published.