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MG-A(G.763.015
31 Mar 1763:13 (934)
Extract of a letter from the Havannah, Dec. 13. . . [17
lines] The Spanish inhabitants are curious about nothing,
they are lazy and indolent, and if the island did not
produce almost spontaneously, they would be without the
necessaries of life. There is nothing in the shape of a
garden, either for pleasure or use in this large city, which
contains about 40,000 inhabitants. Their common amusement
is smoaking segars, and lolling in a calash drawn by one
sorry mule, with a huge Negro on his back, and another
behind the calash, in this manner they drive along at the
rate of about two miles an hour, and whenever the Ave Maria
bell rings they all stop and go to prayers, mules, Negros
and Spaniards. . . [26 lines, character of the women]
We open a theatre to-morrow night, which exhibits once a
week, Captain----and some others, chief actors and managers.
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