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Title: Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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Publisher: Havana : New York : Foster & Reynolds
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e central court. All about usare prison-like rooms, casemates, storerooms, kitchens, magazines,bomb-proofs and dungeons, with grated embrasures, vaulted roofs anddark recesses. The walls are of formidable heights, the ditches ofastonishing depths. It is not at all a cheerful place, and when we cometo a narrow, steep, high-stepped stairway descending into the interiordepths, we feel no desire to explore its mysterious darkness, but turninstead to the more inviting way which leads up to the ramparts. Herew^e have a view well worth coming from Havana to behold, over harborand town and gulf. On the seaward side we are directly over the sea,and looking down into its clear depths perhaps discern one of themonstrous sharks for which these waters have an evil notoriety. Whenthe Morro was occupied by a garrison, the sharks resorted here fo* th,;garbage thrown into the sea; a stone chute is built in the seaward v !,chrough which waste was thrown; and it is among the traditi^ jx MORRO CASTLE. 65
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THE ROAD FROM THE WATER. Morro that through this same passage the bodies of Cuban prisonerswho had been executed were cast down into the nido de tiburones—thesharks nest. The stone building on the harbor side of the ramparts contains awell equipped signal service station. The semaphore, with its numerousfiags and signals, announces to the town the approach of ships boundto this port, and receives and sends messages to passing vessels. Thelighthouse was built in 1844 by Governor-General ODonnell, whoseIrish-Spanish name is immortalized in huge letters high up on the faceof the tower. The lantern is a Fresnel lens, showing a white light, flashingevery half minute, and visible eighteen miles at sea. The guns are not of great age, nor yet of the most modern type ofcoast defense. It is believed that the walls would not stand the shockof firing heavy guns. Below the castle, on the harbor side, down by thewater, are the guns of the Battery of the Twelve Apostles, each of thetwelve having i

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