New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-23
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- !. hu;,Jug TO the Interior. few moe house.
anoh saer the Havana stye, ornament the streets,
,here i. q pretty church. On its steps We met q
hIoek woman with handful Of papers, and thinking
na,uray enough for Americans, that saw the dairy
min, Of Cienfuegos, Immediately seized couple,
| leaving dime each with the DeYress. We did not
open our purchases until we had entered and Quilted
the church when we found them 10 be Puerto Principe
papers twelve and fifteen months old, and part OF the
| contents cut out beside.
Eastward six or eight miles from Cenfuego7, acro,e
| low. woody plain rose fine range of mountains,
purple in the shadows of the early the first hgh
| land we had seen in Cuba.
Leaving Cenfuegos, we had opportunity TO notice
aud admire i,s remarkable harbor Entered from the
.ea by narrow and crooked strait perhaps 800 or 4oO
wards in width with rocky shores apparently OF yell
| low Limestone. it expands within about mile, and
| spreads into lakehke sheet two three miles in
width twelve fifteen in length, with depth and -pace
enough TO float the navies of Europe II is much like
that Of Havana, except in its far greater size and in
IFS peculiar form and the depth of its narrow entrance
said 10 be hundreds Of feet, is very singular port
At an angle Of its entering passage stands pie
uresaue fortfcation, erected and presented to the
Government by some spirited Cuban lady; and a
neat Lighthouse marks the seaward opening of the
port so narrow and obscure that previous 10 the cree
on of this landmark vessels frequently missed it and
went by.
After leaving tbis harbor, the vessel held her way
two or three miles from the rocky shore which seemed
continuous reef of yellow rock. long, gradual slope
led from il TO the mountains which some 600
feet forming a continuous range TO Trinidad; more
rugged, serrated and picturesque chain than any of
similar hight had ever seen. Though ,oping gradu
aIy TO the sea- their crests were broken into many
sharp notches and zg-zag lines, and the deep basns
and bolows between them afforded many views where
the successive distances showed behind the otber
beautifully. They were mostly covered with green
forest or low growth of bushes, few peaks being
nearly bare.
Long before reaching the port of Trinidad the town
was in sight standing conspicuousy the lower slope
Of hill three or four miles from the The harbor
known as Casilda is lagoonike e1panse of water
separated from the sea by long spit or beach of sand
and corals and bordered by thickets of msngrove
bushes growing from the waterke low willows but with
thick leaves the deepest green Coming to the pier
the only means for the transfeence of baggage to
the cars, about quarter Of mile, by their being
carried on the heads of negroes; which being at last
road curving right and left to lengthen distance and
diminish the grade. II low plain, covered
in great part with palm to and very peculiar
its leaves straight and stiff sword-blades, and
ranged in concent,c pointing circles aroundt the
ton Of the trunk while the fruit borne branching
stalks four or five feet long emerging from this singu
lar foliage. II had the habit Of retaining ts old leaves
while developing new, for it, trunk often
,dod Gov ny feet IL
with dense mass of dry but still adhering foliage.
Another species resembled closely the royal palm in
the ostrichike pumes of it's leaves, but it, trunk
sngulary ngaceful-smallpt the ground, and bullying
above into adenanic proportions, until the whole tree
looked exceedingly like gigantic carrot standing
its point.
Entering the town, we were landed in a shabby sta
tionhouse, full inside and outside, Of negroes of all
sorts and sizes; the matpre ones fully clothed the
half.crown haif clothed; the boys with half n
shirt, others with half pair of trowselN and the
Youngest. lust able to run about without rag. Mr..
Wood the Snowman was on the train with variety
of wonders including giant and dwarf woman,
whose appearance walking together from the StaS0n
raised the widest excitement and IN uprcar OF ttsrrs
bass and treble.
No English was spoken at the station and no con-
veyances were ready for passengers or baggage but
the major -domo of the hotel al last procured s1n-
ole horsecart This was toerably filed with trunks,
when two negroes climbing into it behind with
heavy box tilted il up and al rolled into heap, amid
q tempest of shouts and hurrahs from the dngy crowd
of spectators This seemed to convince the cart-pro-
prietor that his vehicle would carry nothing at a-he
and our hotel agent both deserted us, and at last
got the trunks and bags the heads of dozen ne
oroee and while one cavalier escorted the ladies Of
our party the others formed vanguard and resguard
over the Arab troop carrying the baggage and We at
last reached safely the Hotel La Grande Antila,
Z" care del Santo Crsto fionte Ia Plaza de Arnas.
OWAH0ESA.