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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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d Louisiana were under the Bishop of Santiago. In 1804 the diocese SANTIAGO. i6g was elevated into an archbishopric, that of Havana remaining a bishopric.More than once the Cathedral has been looted, the chalices taken from itsaltar and the bells from its towers by pirates and buccaneers. About 1602Santiago was almost depopulated by the invasions of the pirates. In thatyear the Bishop returning to the city from a visit to Bayamo, was cap-tured by the pirate Giron, tied, stripped and carried off to the pirates ship,where he was detained for eighty days, until ransomed by the payment oftwo hundred ducats and eighty arrobas of beef by Don Gregorio Ramos,who, after rescuing the Bishop, succeeded in destroying the pirate.Because of insecurity at Santiago, this Bishop attempted to establish hisCathedral at Havana. The Governor, however, in order to prevent thedepopulation of Santiago, established here a subordinate Governor andcharged him with the protection of the town against the pirates.
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THE UNITED STATES CONSULATE, 170 THE STANDARD GUIDE. Not far from the Plaza beyond the city hall is the Filarmonia Theatre,where, as Santiago is fond of recalling, Adelina Patti, at the age of four-teen, made her debut under the management of Gottschalk. Marina street, leading from plaza to bay, and San Tomas are the prin-cipal shopping streets. A fine view is afforded from the head of Marinastreet. The Alameda on the bay is the popular drive and promenade. Down by the water front beyond the railroad station to the east is theslaughter house, in the inclosing wall of which is a tablet placed by theCubans in 1898 in memory of the crew of the Virginius who were exe-cuted on this spot. The inscription reads: You who pass this placeuncover the head. This spot is consecrated earth. For thirty years it hasbeen blessed with the blood of patriots sacrificed by tyranny. The Vir-ginius afifair was one of the incidents of the Ten Years War. On October 31 a Spanish gunboat overhauled and captured

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