History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time

CHAPTER VII.

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Nudity of children and slaves--The street of the merchants--The currency of Cuba--The Spanish army in the island--Enrolment of blacks--Courage of Spanish troops--Treatment by the government--The garrote--A military execution--The market-men and their wares--The milk-man and his mode of supply--Glass windows--Curtains for doors--The Campo Santo, or burial-place of Havana--Treatment of the dead--The prison--The fish-market of the capital, 95