The Roofs of Camaguey. 
CAMAGUEY. 
Camaguey (Puerto Principe), the capital of Puerto Principe province, 
is on the Cuba Railroad, 343 miles from Havana, and 197 miles from 
Santiago. It is also reached from Nuevitas, its seaport on the north 
coast, via the Puerto Principe & Nuevitas Railroad, which is the oldest 
railroad in Cuba. Also from the port of Antilla by Cuba Railroad. The 
population is 55,000. 
Hack fares are 20 cents Spanish from point to point within the city 
for one or two persons, and 10 cents for each passenger in addition; by 
the hour, $1 in the city; $1.50 beyond the city limits. 
When Columbus explored the coast of Cuba during his first voyage, he 
entered the harbor on the north coast, to which he gave the name of 
Puerto Principe, in honor of Prince Ferdinand; and in 1515 a town was 
established with the name Santa Maria de Puerto Principe. A year later, 
in terror of the pirates, the inhabitants hastily removed into the interor 
and settled here at the Indian village of Camaguey. But even here the 
pirates were not to be eluded. Read the chronicles as written by John 
Esquemiling, a pirate himself, who served with that doughty captain, John 
Morgan. We have taken it from the original, and have reproduced the old 
type, that it may better preserve the flavor of the times. 
The town is very old, and looks its centuries. Its antiquity is charming. 
The projecting wooden window grilles, the heavy cornices and overhang¬ 
ing, fluted tiled roofs, the crumbling masonry, and the antique air of 
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