MORRO CASTLE. 
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Morro that through this same passage the bodies of Cuban prisoners 
who had been executed were cast down into the nido de tiburones—“the 
sharks’ nest.” 
The stone building on the harbor side of the ramparts contains a 
well equipped signal service station. The semaphore, with its numerous 
flags and signals, announces to the town the approach of ships bound 
to this port, and receives and sends messages to passing vessels. The 
lighthouse was built in 1844 by Governor-General O’Donnell, whose 
Irish-Spanish name is immortalized in huge letters high up on the face 
of the tower. The lantern is a Fresnel lens, showing a white light, flashing 
every half minute, and visible eighteen miles at sea. 
The guns are not of great age, nor yet of the most modern type of 
coast defense. It is believed that the walls would not stand the shock 
of firing heavy guns. Below the castle, on the harbor side, down by the 
water, are the guns of the Battery of the Twelve Apostles, each of the 
twelve having its apostolic name. These are the most powerful *uns 
THE ROAD FROM THE WATER. 
