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There is a public walk or alameda on the northern ramparts, which is generally thronged in summer evenings: the green of its trees, when viewed from the bay, affords an agreeable relief to the eye, dazzled with the glare of the white buildings, for Cadiz is also a bright city.
Come, we will be on the Alameda; Xavier waits to attend us. Your Senor Ouard will be at his evening walk. But Mary drew back.
Colonel Hungerford and Jack Hayes received, and were entitled, to great praise, for at the close of the war terms were made which have kept the Indians peaceable ever since. Jack Hayes died several years ago in Alameda, California.
"I am about to take my ward out," he said deliberately, "to er taste the air in the Alameda, and er view the shops. We may er also indulge in er slight suitable refreshment; er seed cake or bread and butter and a dish of tea." Miss Tish, now thoroughly subdued, was delighted to grant Miss Stannard the half holiday permitted on such occasions.
The governor's palace is a building of some pretension, two stories in height, with a veranda on each, and a tall square tower at one end of the edifice. Having visited the plaza, the alameda, with its fine array of cocoa-palms, the municipal palace, the custom-house, the public library, and the large church fronting the plaza, one has about exhausted the main features of interest.
We had dropped our anchor inside the New Mole about 4.30, and before six the familiar sounds of English martial music could be heard from all the different barracks, as the regiments came marching down the hill and along the Alameda to the north front with all their baggage, military trains, tents, and ambulances, for a day's camping out.
It was but a few months after the American colonists gave to wondering humanity their impassioned plea for a world's liberty the immortal Declaration of the Fourth of July. No merrier peal ever sounded from its vibrant throat than the rich notes following Miguel Peralta and his lovely Rose of Alameda. Revelry reigns at the Presidio; Commandante Peralta's quarters are open.
The Havana Casino. Public Statues. Beauties of the Governor's Garden. The Alameda. The Old Bell-Ringer. Military Mass. On no other occasion is the difference between the manners of a Protestant and Catholic community so strongly marked as on the Sabbath.
Several of the most important avenues, beside the Plaza Mayor and the alameda, are lighted by electricity, other portions of the city proper by gas, and the outlying districts by oil-fed lanterns.
''Señor, exclaimed Pepito, 'that must be my compadre, Pedro. 'On the door being opened, they flew to one another's arms, and gave a true Mexican embrace. 'The entrance of Pedro, which evidently annoyed Mr. Livermore, awakened in my mind strange suspicions. I resolved at the earliest opportunity I had of a private interview with him, to allude to what I had overheard on the Alameda.
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