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NYGWPB.763.024
3 Mar 1763:23,31 (1052)
Charles-Town, (in South-Carolina) Jan. 12. Extract of a
letter from the Havannah, Dec. 13 . . . (16 lines,
describing life and business in "St Jago de Cuba, the
capital of the Spanish part"] 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 when ever the Ave Maria bell rings
they all stop and go to prayers, mules, Negroes and
Spaniards." . . . (15 lines] "We have no Sunday among the
English, as for the natives they have Sunday every day, they
are continually saying mass, and carrying the Madona round
the town at night, with two or three lanthorns under her
petticoats. We open a theatre to-morrow night, which
exhibits once a week, Captain --- and some others, chief
actors and managers."
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