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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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hat El Draque, the Dragon, who was well hated of all Spaniards while he lived, and over whom, dead, Lope de Vega sang a paean. In 1585, returning from the sack of Carthagena, Drake appeared before Havana and threatened the town; but there was little here to tempt him then, and after a brief blockade, the Englishmen withdrew, making no other spoil of Cuba, as the journal of one of them runs, than refreshing themselves with store of Turtles Eggs by Day and taking 250 Turtles by Night, which, being powdered and dried, did them much Service. But Drakes menace of Havana was not without its effect.This event, writes the Spanish historian Arrete, and more probably the perfect conviction how essential the safety of the port was to the security of trade and navigation between the two kingdoms of Old pain and New Spain, enlightened the King, our Lord Felipe H., surnamed The Prudent, to foresee, with his great policy and incomparable penetration, that what was then but a temptation to a few private cor-
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ON THE RAMPARTS LOOKING NORTH. 6z 64 THE STANDARD GUIDE. sairs. would become, in the future, an object of desire to crowned heads.He therefore directed the construction of an imperial fortress, worthy of his royal design and capable of making the harbor impregnable.And so in 1587, the plans having been drawn by the Engineer Don Juan Bautista Antoneli, and a force of convicts and slaves having been provided to do the work, the coral rock was quarried out for the moats,and there was built here the fortress named Castillo de los Tres Reyesdel Morro—Castle of the Three Kings of the Morro—which title was in usage shortened to Castillo del Morro, or simply El Morro. The Spanish word morro means headland or promontory. and is applied to any fortress having such a position. There is a Morro at Santiago and another at San Juan in Puerto Rico. The Havana Morroas completed in 1597 was a facsimile of a Moorish fortress at Lisbon, but it has been much altered in design since then. It is an irregu

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