Chapter 12

Traveling by Volante. -- Want of Inland Communication. -- Americans Profitable Customers. -- The Cruel National Game. -- The Plaza de Toros. -- Description of a Bull-Fight. -- The Infection of Cruelty. -- The Romans and Spaniards compared. -- Cry of the Spanish Mob: "Bread and Bulls!" -- Women at the Fight. -- The Nobility of the Island. -- The Monteros. -- Ignorance of the Common People. -- Scenes in the Central Market, Havana. -- Odd Ideas of Cuban Beggars. -- An Original Style of Dude. -- A Mendicant Prince. 219