Category: Travel Writing
Celebrating a Victory--General Serrano--A Cuban Sacristan--His View of Mary Magdalene--Sunday--The Theatre de Tacon--General Serrano’s Wife--A “Norther”--The Fish Market--Brilliancy of the Fish--A Venerable Cosmopolite--The Slaves--The Chain Gang--The Cerro--A Count’s Country-...
Celebrating a Victory--General Serrano--A Cuban Sacristan--His View of Mary Magdalene--Sunday--The Theatre de Tacon--General Serrano’s Wife--A “Norther”--The Fish Market--Brilli...
2. Part 2Staid American eyes are struck by the spiritual stolidity of these people. Favorites of nature, crowned forever by her flowers, inspired by her fresh and friendly breezes, baski...
3. Part 3Having still twenty minutes before breakfast, we drove quickly to the fashionable church of San Filipo. Found it having more pretension than the Jesuit (“Belen”) church, but not...
4. Part 4_Guiness, Wednesday, March 21st._--At last! With the earliest dawning of the dawn we found ourselves actually leaving Havana, and that not by the boat, which it had become our t...
5. Part 5Imagine my dismay when about to mount, to find the side-saddle turned to the right of the horse instead of the left. It is indeed the ordinary style of this extraordinary countr...
6. Part 6East and west of us mountains--those pyramids of nature, which will never, like those of man, forget their maker--are rising and falling to suit their own ideas of grace and maj...
7. Part 7I felt myself grow sick and faint, but looked around in vain for a corresponding horror in the faces of the other spectators. They stared on with only a little less than their u...
8. Part 8If genuine storms and honest ignorance of these dangerous passages do not supply a sufficient number of wrecks to satisfy the gambling tastes of the wreckers, and of the merchan...
9. Part 9_Friday, April 20th._--A boat ride yesterday morning, followed by a long exhausting walk on the bare beach of Hog Island, which lies stretched out in front of Nassau for the app...