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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Guayaba Falls. 



canyon clear to the bottom, whish distance we believe to be fully the five hundred feet claimed. 

 Nature has carved out of the rock formation at the bottom a great basin, into which the 

 water crashes down mid small clouds of spray and flows rapidly out of the narrow end of 

 the canyon. One can imagine no more inspiring sight after hours of climbing over precipitious 

 moimtain trails and hearing the roar of falling waters in the distance, than to come suddenly in 

 view a waterfall like thi^ d iring the torrential rainy periods. The setting is there the year 

 roimd, though it sometimes lacks the necessary water to make it as famous as other falls not 

 so high. The Guayaba River, also the Mayari and numerous smaller streams pursue their 

 tortuous way through this wild region of Eastern Cuba and supply the water which goes over 

 these beautiful falls, ai-d from which the large sugar mill at Preston, the property of the United 

 Fruit Company, gets its water supply. The view looking through the canyon towards Nipe 

 Bay is beautiful, and recalls im.pressions of the great "Niagara Gorge," and visions that these 

 same falls of Guayaba have been in the distant past, or will be in the future, as great as the falls 

 of Niagara in our own country. Away in the distance on a clear day can be seen the baeutiful 

 blue waters of the Eay cf .■ ipe, and along its shores the thriving busy life of m.aking sugar at 

 Preston and Banes, fifteen n iles away. 



