Both Uses of
Cuba
in
Moby Dick
- Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.†
Chpt 118-120
Definition:
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(Cuba) communist country in the Caribbean on the largest island in the West Indies which is 90 miles from Florida