. Book of the Royal blue . orrespondent has crossedthis last isolated military line from theCaribbean Sea to the Iahania Channel. Itis a most interestinj; ride. The distanceis sixty-nine kilometers, or about forty-three miles, and the country is jjerfeotlyflat. There is a handsome and well con-structed block house every kilometer, withtwo, three and sometimes four smallerblock houses or earth fortifications between. (The word is jironouneed tro-cha and nottro-ka). In spite of the many block housesand constantly running armored trains, andthe vigilance of the Si)anish .soldiers, thistrocha was
. Book of the Royal blue . orrespondent has crossedthis last isolated military line from theCaribbean Sea to the Iahania Channel. Itis a most interestinj; ride. The distanceis sixty-nine kilometers, or about forty-three miles, and the country is jjerfeotlyflat. There is a handsome and well con-structed block house every kilometer, withtwo, three and sometimes four smallerblock houses or earth fortifications between. (The word is jironouneed tro-cha and nottro-ka). In spite of the many block housesand constantly running armored trains, andthe vigilance of the Si)anish .soldiers, thistrocha was crossed several times. Yourcorrespondent had the good fortune to rideover the .\Iornn Trocha railroad with CeneralJose Miguel Come/., formerly in commandof the insurgent forces of .Santa Clara, andnow civil governor of that province. It wasvery interesting to hear his account of howhe and a number of companions crossed thiswire network one dark, stormy night, with-out losing a man or hearing the .sound of UEtOliK .IT LAN In this connection it may not be out ofplace to say something about this famoustrocha. The word trocha means a clear-ing through the woods. In the .States wehave usually understood trocha to meanthe barbed wire entanglement which clearing. The clearing of the MoronTrocha is less than a quarter of a mile wideand reaches from sea to sea. There arefive lines of wooden posts, about five feetapart, lengthwise and Barbedwire is stretched from post to jiost, andback again, crossed and recrossed. until aperfect network or entanglement is is this network that Americans havegenerally understood to be the trocha. Besides the railroads above mentioned,there are a great number of jirivate rail-roads which belong to the various planta-tions, and are used for transporting caneto the sugar mills. These roads are ofmuch greater extent than might be sup-posed. The large estate of Constanci
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