Identifier: standardguidetoc00reyn (find matches)
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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good a friend of the Indians. Other noted per-sonages who had part with Velazquez in the founding of Baracoa and thesubjugation of Cuba were Pamphilo de Narvaez and Hernando Cortes.From Baracoa, Velazquez proceeded to other parts of the island, establish-ing the Spanish rule and reducing the Indians to servitude.* Three yearslater, in 1514, he founded Santiago and Trinidad on the south coast, nearthe Spanish settlements in Jamaica and Santo Domingo, and then Bayamo,Puerto Principe, Sancti Spiritus, and in 1518 the San Cristobal de laHabana, which was the beginning of Havana. The Baracoa of to-day, with its castle-crowned hill and splendid moun- * From one of these expeditions the chronicle of the time relates—and it is a noteof human interest among these dry-as-dust historical data: Velazquez went awayto Baracoa to marry a Lady that was come out of Spain for that Purpose. TheV\edding was celebrated with much Joy on a Sunday, but the next Saturday hisWife dyd. ON THE NORTH SHORE. 163
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THE OLD FORT AT BARACOA. tain background, lacks none of the charm which excited the admiration ofCohimbus. The town is built on a small peninsula and the crescent bays;all about lie hill and mountains. Conspicuous in the west is the celebratedYunque or Anvil, its scarped heights rising 2.000 feet, and the flat table topdefined sharp and clear against the sky. The distinguishing features ofthe landscape are the cocoanut palms, which are seen everywhere, on shoreand hill and mountain. Millions of cocoanuts are exported annually,with immense quantities of cocoanut oil, copra and other by-products.Second in importance only to the cocoanut trade is the banana industry;some of the choicest bananas exported to the United States go fromRaracoa. From interior plantations the fruit is brought down to thetown on gravity trolley wires. The shops are striking for their sizeand large stocks of goods; Baracoa is the distributing point for the planta-tions all about. The old fort on the hill dates fr

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