CABANA. 
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OLD SPANISH GUNS ON THE RAMPARTS. 
a sombreness relieved only by the bright color here and there of some 
flowering shrub; and our unpracticed eye is baffled when we endeavor to 
comprehend the plan of work; it is a rambling succession of fortifica¬ 
tion within fortification, the whole enormous in extent. There is here 
none of the symmetry and the completeness of design of Spanish Fort 
San Marco in St. Augustine, though in comparison with Cabana the 
Florida fort is a toy. 
Ascending to the ramparts, we gain a commanding view of harbor 
and town and sea and the palm-fringed encircling hills. The antiquated 
Spanish guns, elaborately ornamented and bearing each one the name of 
a sovereign, are quite in keeping with Cabana’s age and uselessness. 
The marble shaft which rises from the next parapet commemorates the 
valor and loyalty of the soldiers of the garrison who repulsed the 
Lopez expedition at Las Pazas in 1851. Across the harbor, on a nin 
south of the city, is seen Atares Castle, where Crittenden met his fate. 
Narciso Lopez, a native of Venezuela, who had been a general in the Spanish 
army, fomented an unsuccessful insurrection of Cubans, and in 1849 emigrated to the 
United States, where he allied himself with the Cuban conspirators in New York. 
In 1850 he led an expedition of ijOf) men against Cuba; he landed at Cardenas and 
