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 . en Fleece. From the entablature grin two grotesques, hideousand repulsive, fit genii of the place. Entering through the vaulted hall, we come shortly to the LaurelDitch—Los Fosos de los Laureles—so named from the laurel treeswhich grow here. This was the place of execution of insurgents andpolitical prisoners during the Cuban revolution. In those days, personswho took part in the revolution, or who were merely suspected, whetherright
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 . en Fleece. From the entablature grin two grotesques, hideousand repulsive, fit genii of the place. Entering through the vaulted hall, we come shortly to the LaurelDitch—Los Fosos de los Laureles—so named from the laurel treeswhich grow here. This was the place of execution of insurgents andpolitical prisoners during the Cuban revolution. In those days, personswho took part in the revolution, or who were merely suspected, whetherrightly or wrongly, of sympathy with the cause, were arbitrarilyarrested by order of the Captain-Genernl, and sent to Morro or Cabana,where they were shut up incomunicado—that is, without communica-tion with friends or counsel—and by like arbitrary decree they were heldin the dungeons or sent to Africa or sentenced to death here. Theirfate, in any event, might be unknown to their families and were killed in the Laurel Ditch. The victim, kneeling, with faceto the wall, was shot by a file of Spanish soldiers, who came out from 72 CABANA. 73. THE ENTRANCE OF CABANA. the interior of Cabafia for the purpose. The Hue marked by the bulletsin the wall is traceable for 85 feet; it was called by the significant nameof the deadline. A bronze memorial, provided by popular subscrip-tion, has been set in the wall to commemorate the martyrdom of thosewho died here in the cause of Cuba Libre. The design represents anangelic messenger receiving the soul of the dying patriot. Within the fortification we find ourselves in a vast labyrinth of wind-ings and turnings, ascents and descents, through narrow, high-walledpassages and vaulted halls, covered ways, courts, barracks, prisons,officers quarters and chapel; tree-lined roads and drill grounds; ram-part, parapet and terreplein, one beyond another and the whole seem-ingly interminable. We get an impression of vastness and drearin
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