Category: A Trip to Cuba

AS we have said, there were some official mysteries connected with the arrival of our steamer in Nassau; but these did not compare with the visitations experienced in Havana. As soon as we had dropped anchor, a swarm of dark … Read the rest

THE breakfast being over, we recall the Captain’s parting admonition to be on board by ten o’clock, with the significant gesture and roll of the eye which clearly express that England expects every passenger to do his duty. Now we … Read the rest

NASSAU looked very green and pleasant to us after our voyage;—the eyes enjoy a little fresh provision after so long a course of salt food. The first view of land is little more than “the feeling of the thing,”—it is … Read the rest

WHY one leaves home at all is a question that travellers are sure, sooner or later, to ask themselves,—I mean, pleasure-travellers. Home, where one has the “Transcript” every night, and the “Autocrat” every month, opera, theatre, circus, and good society, … Read the rest

Dedication: To Henry Marion Howe… Read the rest

“Far from my thoughts, vain world, begone!”

However enchanting Havana may prove when seen through the moonlight of memory, it seems as good a place to go away from as any other, after a stifling night in a net, the … Read the rest

THE gentlemen of our party go one day to visit the Jesuit College in Havana, yclept “Universidad de Belen.” The ladies, weary of dry goods, manifest some disposition to accompany them. This is at once frowned down by the unfairer … Read the rest

ONE is apt to arrive in Havana with a heart elated by the prospect of such kindnesses and hospitalities as are poetically supposed to be the perquisite of travellers. You count over your letters as so many treasures; you regard … Read the rest

“SHALL I not take mine ease in mine inn?” Yes, truly, if you can get it, Jack Falstaff; but it is one thing to pay for comfort, and another thing to have it. You certainly pay for it, in Havana; … Read the rest

FAREWELL to Havana! the pleasant time is over. We are to return where we belong. Not with undue sentimentalism of sorrow, as though it were greater loss to see beautiful places and forsake them, than to have staid at Pudding-gut … Read the rest