e so
rapidly that there is, perhaps, no wonder the Creoles should deem it, as
they universally do, to be contagious.

[17] The first lines of this city were traced on Saturday, the 10th of
October, 1693, by Senor Manzaneda, under whose government it was
founded. It was named San Carlos Alcazar de Matanzas; the last word,
that by which it is known, signifying the slaughter of a battle-field.

[18] Moro Castle was first built in 1633; the present structure was
erected on the ruins of the first, destroyed by the English in 1762.

[19] Built by Charles III., and said to have cost the sum of $7,000,000.
According to Rev. L.L. Allen's lecture on Cuba, it was more than forty
years in building.

[20] The port of Havana is one of the best harbors in the world. It has
a very narrow entrance, but spreads immediately into a vast basin,
embracing the whole city, and large enough to hold a thousand ships of
war.--_Alexander H. Everett._

[21] "Her hands and feet are as small and delicate as those of a child.
She wears the finest satin slippers, with scarcely any soles, which,
luckily, are never destined to touch the street."--_Countess Merlin's
Letters._

CHAPTER VI.

Contrast between Protestant and Catholic communities--Catholic
churches--Sabbath scenes in Havana--Devotion of the common
people--The Plaza de Armas--City squares--The poor man's
opera--Influence of music--La Dominica--The Tacon Paseo--The Tacon
Theatre--The Cathedral--Tomb of Columbus over the altar--Story of
the great Genoese pilot--His death--Removal of remains--The former
great wealth of the church in Cuba--Influence of the priests.

On no occasion is the difference between the manners of a Protestant and
Catholic community so strongly marked as on the Sabbath. In the former,
a sober seriousness stamps the deportment of the people, even when they
are not engaged in devotional exercises; in the latter, worldly
pleasures and religious exercises are pursued as it were at the same
time, or follow each other in incongruous succession. The Parisian flies
from the church to the railway station, to take a pleasure excursion
into the country, or passes with careless levity from St. Genevieve to
the Jardin Mabille; in New Orleans, the Creole, who has just bent his
knee before the altar, repairs to the French opera, and the Cuban from
the blessing of the priest to the parade in the Plaza. Even the Sunday
ceremonial of the church is