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Title: The American tropics;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Corlett, William Thomas, 1854- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cleveland, The Burrows brothers co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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fleeting, so unstable, and the smile of the land, though fair, seemed like the smile of the siren which lures to ruin. (173) CHAPTER VII. ON clearing Kingston Harbor some beautiful sunset effects were seen. There had been few on the whole trip—none such as at times makes nightfall glorious in the north, but then it may not have been the season for beautiful sunsets.It is a nights run from Kingston to Santiago de Cuba and at daybreak the cloud-like out-line of land was seen on our starboard side.The sky was overcast and it was much cooler,with a fresh wind, although the sea was calm.Ulsters were needed for the first time since warm weather was encountered, but as the sun rose they were soon discarded. The entrance to Santiago Harbor is reached through a narrow channel, guarded to the right by El Morro (the promontory), a combination of mediaeval fortress and castle,and to the left by the rugged foothills of the Sierras. The place is of interest mainly from the memorable battle which occurred(174)
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A Midwinter Cruise there July 3rd, 1898, between the American squadron under Sampson and Schley and the Spanish flotilla commanded by Cervera, in which the latter was quickly demolished, terminating the war with Spain for the ** liberation of Cuba. As we lay facing the entrance awaiting the pilot, the pinkish-brown pile of masonry, lit up by the morning sun, surmounted by the castle, towered above us. About the only visible evidence of ill usage the fort has received during the four hundred years it has frowned alike on bold and timorous foe are the excavations or caverns in its rocky foundation made by the waves. To the left, surmounting the Sierra Maestro Range, stands Pico Turquino, eight thousand feet above the sea. We were disappointed in not seeing some relics of the vanquished squadron, they being strewn for forty miles westward along the cost. Welay to, however, sufficiently near to see the tower in which Hobson was imprisoned after the sinking of the Merrimac by himself (175) The American

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