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Show CUBA· 162 d blood, could answer his . I man flesh an . bl rious investment tn lU Iaro-e a proportion of these mtsera e purpose- especially as so " Our young friends found thc1r beinrrs die in the scasomng. I . they saw several hundred o 1 b rracoon w l CJC . . d way to a fourll ~' ~ ~rh . were ju lean condJtlOn, an newly imported chtldren. telylct·I. skins of bruises or blows, · 1 marks on ' many of them wtt 1 b' b. ·vrainst the pannels of the ves- ProbaiJ\y receJ.V ed from ru mg '"' (' 11 Cl"UlllTICU ·1 1 · ]I CC 1Crl'll1gs . 1 I d been unmcrct u y ' ' . . sel in whtch t tey 1a . ters .1t night well sattshed ' W . turned to our quar ' ' . . in a barre. l. e Itel ese horrors an d wt' th the infonnallon wbtch with havmg seen 1 . ' 1 d 5 bnt heart-sickened and . · day had afloH e u ' a most mterestmg d' , . e bctweC'11 these hapless, 0 tl nnuttcrable ti>Cienc f a1llicted. , 10 '1 ll- onditioned free peasantry o hopeless, creatures, and t 1e we c Jamaica ! . he first of the week. A day of rest and 'l'he next day was t . . t llavana. A certain propor- . . . ot be smd to be a ' ' . worslllp, tt c,um . d d attend the Roman Catholtc I tlation do Ill 00 ' ' tion of t 10 p. ohp t ' d dea'l o f d cccn cy ., but the mass seems to churches, wtt a goo f . 1. ions duty. No Protes-t! utte r ncrrlect o Ie tg .. be given up to 1e " . the house of the Bnllsh l . . tolerated n ot oven m rant wors up IS ' . . h appily be held, by the A F ·iends' mcctmg n1,1y .. . consul. I . I .t do . and in a company of SIX ell as the mu ll u , very few, as. w . I wo were permitted to ex-t our boarduw- louse, . I persons, a od . {'· hment in our usual sunp e omfort an JC JCS ' , perience some c I d ourselves under the care ol mode of worship. We then p acl c t f t11e city who led us to r . s mere Ian 0 ' James Norman, are tgtOn . t vo lunatic asylums, in bad f [ blic U1StllUtJ011S-- 1 . several o n e pu . d . ]1'ln house in whtch we ,r. · or endowe OJ P ' ' order; a beneJ.cencw, d I .t children u nder pretty good b tl ·co hundre w 11 e ' d found a out u . I . f all colors ; an ' 11 t asylum for epc1s o tutelage ; an exce e n I . h fJI\cd with eight hundred 11 '1"' on's pnson w nc was bl ks fina y , ac . f ;he buildin" being appropriated to ac ' cn nunals-one stde o . o . \·, tion of Cuba, as com· h. 'l'he wh1tc popu ~ the other, tow ttes. . . . hundred and thirty to h bl k 1s sa1d to be as one · pared to t e ac ' . 1 'd ·llotted to the whttes one hundred. In tho pnson, tIde ~~ c f \ho two. The priappear..". ~" to be the more crow e o CUBA. 163 sonors work on the roads and break stones, but when not at work, arc locked up, night and day, in largo companies, and arc left to themselves to grow worse <UJd worse, corrupted, and corrupting one aHothcr. 'Within the walls, we obser ved a !'Urnshop, wltich ca11not Jail to nccelcrate the degenerating process. We sincerely !cit for an American captain who was shut up with this mlnan multitude. lie was ouce much respected, but had been conv icted of secreting money on board his vessel, and after sixlL'Cn months of prcyious imprisonment, (owing, I believe, to his own wish to delay his tr ial) had been sentenced to be imprisoned here for s ix years. Miguel de Cabrera kindly undertoo[{ to Jay his case before the Q ueen of Spain; and we hope, notwithstanding It is acknowledged guilt, ho will soon be liberated from !tis presen t miserable allotment. The whole scene afforded glaring evidences of tbo low, and even desperate, state of morals in this slave trad ing community. In the a fternoon we were summoned on board the Whitmore, to which we were accompanied by our kind friend, Cabrera, and tho British Consu l. After taking an affec tionate leave of them, wo weighed anchor, and so concluded our interesting visit of three days to tho city of Havana. I n consequence, however, of some little nautical accident, wo failed to clear the harbor that night, and according ly avai led ourselves of a ~uiet evening, in hold ing a relig ious meeting with our passengers, apart from all d isturbing causes. E arly the next morning we again passed under the ji'own of the Moru, and commenced our voyage to Savannah, in Georg ia. I know not that I should have troubled thee with this section of our narrative, had I not wished to solicit thy attention to a subject of deep interest and importance, respecting which this short sejonr in Cuba, gave us an opportunity of obtaining some information -I mean, American pm·ticipation in tlte African slavetrade. I. Tltc building of the vessels. The slave-traders of Cuba require vessels of peculiar powers of speed, and otherwise of 11 |