Topografía médica de la isla de Cuba / por el Dr. D. Ramon Piña y Peñuela.

  • Piña y Peñuela, Ramón.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Topografía médica de la isla de Cuba / por el Dr. D. Ramon Piña y Peñuela. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    and outsíde pjjiyed '• God Sare tne\~ „ ' jnounced the Uorernor's approach. His L ,, ) enters en cosíuwte, and wears, with great l ??T ] his cocked hat throughout the entlí ^' I mony. The officers who accompany liv^f I frightfully hot in their reu coats, and í* ' two, with painfully tight chokers, seem threV °f with apoplexy, or a rush oí blood to the hea?? soon as the Governor is seated he sends for the rTS bers of Assembly, and they come rushing in tumi?' ously. They were really quite and some of them wore gloves. piratical-lcoking creatures, or least. The Speaker appeared coat of Astrachan fur, which a tropical city. The mace, I A shabby flag hung beliind the Gorernor's chair, and a V. R. in cocoa nut leaves completed the ornamenta- tion of the room. Two large pictures, that looked as though they had been rescued from Heiculaneum, were pcssibly meant to represent a brace of Carib Chiefs or ancient British Kings, I eannot say which, The Gorernor delirered an excellent address, sensi- ble and to the point. Underneath the cocked hat of a British Gorernor one always finds a gentleman, a scholar, and a prmetical statesman, and Mr. Baylby stands considerably abore the average of English Governors. Still a young man, he may look forward *o high preferment, for under his rule the Bahamas haré greatly prospered and new sources of industry hay© been developed. The Gorernor, in his address, spoke of the large influx of Americans as an adran- tage to the Colony, and alluded to the expected risit of H. R. H. Piince Alfred, who is now supposed to be in Jamaica. At an offic'.al dinner giren in the 1 erening, bis Excellency spoke with great feeling of the troubles in the United States, and hoped that ' peace and amity might be restored to the country. A Nassau lady has found fauit with me for saying, in my last letter, that lhere were no newspapers on the Island. If I remember right I merely spoke of the j absence of newspapers in connection with one's mora- ing cup of coffee. There is an excellent semi-weekly sheet in Nassau called the Guardian, which publisb.es allthe English and American news with unfailing regularity. When I inform you that the entire news- paper patronage of the Bahamas embraces only 250 subscribeis, you will easily understand the precarious life that our belored profession is forced to lead in Nassau. Regarding this as the true standard of cirili- zation—and what traer one could be found?—the civilization of Nassau must be considered at a rery low ebb indeed. A man who neither subscribes to a newspaper ñor adrertises in its columns should be marked and aroided. He ean't possibly haré any moral principie. He must be a rictim to the worst rices. The people of Nassau, if they wish tobe re- specte d abroad and properly represented at lome, should support their Press. I am positirely assured tkat at publie entertainment» in Nassau the fourth es- táte is not eren noticed. Think of that! In spite of all drawbacks three papera eke out a liriog here ¡ but the united forcé, editors and priaters included, of the two minor establishments consists of a man and a boy, and one column must be dlstributed before a second can be set up. If either of them were called upon to print Zebbedee half-a-dozen times they would j certalnly explode, for they haré not so many of the¡' same letters on hand. The small-pox has broken out in Nassau, and we're all been raccinated. It seems to me extraragantly rich that people coming down to the Bahamas for en- joyment, should sleep orer a stable, diñe on horse, b<» threatened with lunacy from ennui, and finally / driren into a pen for raccination, and suffer torme, through terror of small-pox. Derilish rich, I tliiñt * and a proper comment dn the mania for trav-el. There is a rumor—a wild, improbable, impossibla rjijpaor íe town—one that has greatly excited the black ' ™*aíd that—a circus has arnred ' —. W. G. S.