THE CUBA REVIEW 



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Mississippi ; Panfilo Narvaez, who led the 

 expedition to Florida, which Juan Ponce de 

 Leon had discovered, was also of that im- 

 perishable company; here somewhere in 

 Santiago the seeker of the fountain of youth 

 died of a poisoned arrow ; nor can one be 

 unmindful of lesser celebrities : Giron, the 

 pirate, who sacked the town, despoiled it of 

 its virgins and held the Bishop for ransom ; 

 and Lord Winsor, the Englishman, who 

 with 800 bullies took Sanitago from a land- 

 fall at Aguadores, ravished the church of 

 its bells, set torch to the reverend pile, and 

 blew up Morro Castle of that period (1662) ; 

 least of all can Americans forget or fail to 

 honor Pasquale Cervera,, the white bearded 

 gentleman who accepted the cast of fate and 

 led his squadron to a grave under the 

 shadow of the frowning Sierra Maestra, 

 those peaks that had seen so many intrepid 

 Admirals going forth to glory. 



In five years more Santiago, let us re- 

 member, will celebrate the four hundredth 

 anniversary of its nativity. — New York Sun. 



Trinidad's Ancient Prosperity. 



Trinidad is a pretty town on the south 

 coast of Cuba. Approaching from the sea 

 one sees it set back among the hills two 

 miles from the shore. Farther back the 



hills become mountains, extending as far 

 as one can see east and west, and between 

 the mountain range and the hills near the 

 shore there are valleys as beautiful and as 

 fertile as can be found anywhere. 



The town is very old. ^lore than a hun- 

 dred years before the Pilgrims landed at 

 Plymouth it was a well established colony. 

 In 1519 Cortes and his Spanish Cavaliers, 

 en route to conquer Mexico, put into its 

 harbor for a few days for rest and supplies. 

 Back in those early days it played an im- 

 portant part in the history or Cuba, though 

 its people have always been largely cut off 

 from the rest of the world by lack of com- 

 munication. 



Many stories are told of its former wealth. 

 In the valley of Trinidad there were Once 

 forty-two sugar mills, whose owners built 

 luxurious palaces and lived at ease in the 

 city. The southern slopes of its hills and 

 mountains were also luxuriant with coffee 

 groves, and long pack trains brought their 

 valuable cargoes to be shipped at the port. 

 Its people have always been friends of lib- 

 erty. Germans and Americans, as well as 

 Spaniards, settled in the valley, and their 

 descendants were such ardent advocates of 

 liberty that Spain had always to keep a 

 strong garrison there. 



Trinidad's Former Greatness. Long pack trains brought valuable cargoes to be shipped at the port. 



