Fanny Elssler is back! This time she is in Havana, rather than New Orleans, and the stevedores are rolling cargoes rather than hoisting them. Their song is a "lively chaunt."

1843        Unknown. "Fanny Elssler at the Havanah." Fraser's Magazine 168(28) (December 1843).

Havana, Jan. 1841. A rough translation of Elssler's own accounts.

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Before me lay the harbour, beautiful in shape, and its fine quays thickly lined with hundreds of vessels of all nations. …Great masses of idle people were standing contemplating our arrival, the vessels teeming with negroes, oddly attired, were at work rolling cargoes in and out, and accompanying their labour with a lively chaunt, both musical and strange.
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