In this part of the story, Mary Seacole witnessed the Cruces and the Gorgona people together, where things went ugly went an American woman treated her slave with disrespect, including with lashing at her viciously. She talked about how life at Gorgona resembled Cruces, "Down with the store and hotel keepers came the muleteers and mules, porters and hangers-on, idlers and thieves, gamblers and dancing women; and soon the monte-tables were fitted up, and plying their deadly trade; and the dancers charmed the susceptible tracellers as successfully in the dirty streets of Gorgona as they had previously done in the unwholesome precints of Cruces" (pg. 53). It was interesting to see this comparison, since I also sometimes see other parts of the world as a reminder of my house.

Seacole, Mary. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Penguin Classics. 1857.