The Standard guide to StAugustine and Fort MarionPractical information for tourists, descriptions of all points of interests; and an historical summary . sed entrance was noticed; and inves-tigation led to the discovery of the interior passageways. Refuseand rubbish were found there. The report was given out—whetherat the time or later—that in this rubbish were some bones. Fromthis insignificant beginning the myth-makers evolved first the talethat the bones were human; then they made them a completeskeleton; then two skeletons; then they added a rusty chain and astaple in the wall—a gold ring
The Standard guide to StAugustine and Fort MarionPractical information for tourists, descriptions of all points of interests; and an historical summary . sed entrance was noticed; and inves-tigation led to the discovery of the interior passageways. Refuseand rubbish were found there. The report was given out—whetherat the time or later—that in this rubbish were some bones. Fromthis insignificant beginning the myth-makers evolved first the talethat the bones were human; then they made them a completeskeleton; then two skeletons; then they added a rusty chain and astaple in the wall—a gold ring on one skeletons finger—instru-ments of torture—two iron cages—and when Charles Lanmanvisited the fort in 1850, they had supplied one of the skeletonswith a pair of boots—and showed the boots to prove the gold ring,staples, iron cages, and ali the other stock accessories to theSpanish Inquisition tale of horror. It was a harmless fiction afterall, and that it was not true, mores the pity. However commonplaceand practic-d may have been the use of these underground passagesin old times, they arc uncanny and mystersioui; enough now, and. ;8 The Standard Guide.
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