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 . , and conquering Havana, had burnt thesame, consisting at that time of wooden houses covered with thatch, hadnot the Spaniards redeemed them from the fire for seven hundred Ducats;with which money the French set sail, when the day following three shipsarrived from New Spain before Havana, and having unladen their goods,and preparing themselves for battle, pursued the Pyrate; who gettingsight of the Admiral, who sailed before, durst n
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 . , and conquering Havana, had burnt thesame, consisting at that time of wooden houses covered with thatch, hadnot the Spaniards redeemed them from the fire for seven hundred Ducats;with which money the French set sail, when the day following three shipsarrived from New Spain before Havana, and having unladen their goods,and preparing themselves for battle, pursued the Pyrate; who gettingsight of the Admiral, who sailed before, durst not venture to engage himalone, but staid for the other two ships: from which cowardly action theFrench Pyrate taking courage, fell on the Spanish Admiral, who withoutfiring a gun ran his ship ashore, and deserted the same; the next onethereby discouraged, tacking about, made away from the enemy; on whichthe third also followed, insomuch that at last they were all three taken bythe French; who encouraged with this unexpected victory steered theircourse a second time to Havana, where they got as much more moneyfrom the inhabitants as before. 32 LA FUERZA. 33. THE TOWER OF LA FUERZA AND THE SENATE BUILDING. When De Soto, then Governor of Cuba, learned of the plight of theinhabitants, he came hither from Santiago, then the capital, and under-took the construction of a fort. Captain Mateo Acertuiia, the towns firstalcalde, was the engineer. De Soto saw the defenses completed before thetwelfth of May, 1539, when, with a fleet and a force of men all well madeand well equipped, so that there had not been seen up to that time anarmament for the Indies so large and so fine, he set sail on the memorableexpedition for the conquest of Florida and the discovery of the Missis-sippi. The Adelantado left here in La Fuerza, as commander in hisstead, Dofia Isabel de Bobadilla, his wife. It was here that Dofia Isabelwaited and watched through the weary years for the coming of her hus-band, who was
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