Cuba past and present . aviour. The chief constructed a shrine forthe image and he and his people worshipped beforeher with deep veneration, but one day she disap-peared and for a hundred years was lost to all theworld. Early in the seventeenth century Indiansat Nipe Bay found the image floating on a pieceof board and carried it to the Indian village ofHato near Cobre. Three times the image leftthis place and was found upon the summit of themountain and the Indians — convinced that it washer wish to remain on the mountain — built ashrine in 1631 and within this shrine the imagestands to-day. T
Cuba past and present . aviour. The chief constructed a shrine forthe image and he and his people worshipped beforeher with deep veneration, but one day she disap-peared and for a hundred years was lost to all theworld. Early in the seventeenth century Indiansat Nipe Bay found the image floating on a pieceof board and carried it to the Indian village ofHato near Cobre. Three times the image leftthis place and was found upon the summit of themountain and the Indians — convinced that it washer wish to remain on the mountain — built ashrine in 1631 and within this shrine the imagestands to-day. The miraculous image is of woodabout 16 inches high and is robed in gold andjewels valued at $10, and is mountedwithin tortoise-shell inlaid with gold and one time the value of the Virgins ornaments 148 CUBA, PAST AND PRESENT were much greater than now, but on a night inMay, 1899, some sacrilegious thief broke into thesanctuary and robbed the shrine of all its votiveofferings valued at over $25, ?4 <1-1 < in H < H !zi o CHAPTER XI THE SOUTHERN COAST AND THE ISLE OF PINES The voyager sailing along the southern coastof Cuba westward from Cape Maysr sees but littlethat would hint of the wondrous vegetation andrichness of the interior. Along the coast thereare few forests, the shore rises from the waves inrocky terraces and the aspect is altogether barrenand forbidding and lacking in harbours untilGuantanamo is reached. This town is aboutforty miles east of Santiago and has a magnificentharbour about five miles wide by ten miles inlength, large enough and deep enough to accom-modate our entire navy and well sheltered fromall winds by the surrounding hills. Guantanamo. Guantanamo was first discovered by Spanishvoyagers from Santo Domingo in 1511, but it wasnot used and soon became the resort of pirates 149 150 CUBA, PAST AND PRESENT and buccaneers who laid in wait for the plate-ships and galleons sailing to and from Spain andthe Indies. In 1741 Adm
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