The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-13

pleasures in his adventures during this |
expedition but, overtaken in due season |
by the torrid months, he was driven back, /
and took up his residence in the neigh |
borhood of ST. Augustine.
When he left this place in fishing
smack for Cuba, he had completed a
definite set of plans to be carried out on
his arrival in Spain.
Some forty miles sail brought Tweed
and his companion to the coast of Cuba,
some ten miles outside the harbor of
Santiago de Cuba. The fisherman who
brought them from the American coast
did not dare to confront the Spanish
officials with freight which he strongly
suspected was contraband. II was a
bright moonlight night as they made the
point chosen for landing. Tweed had
already become haDituated to the by
ways frequented by his guides, and, even
where he might have taken one of the
regular steamers plying among the West
India ports, he quite naturally continued
his course as he had started, keeping
himself away from the regular channels
in which he might be inconveniently re-
cognized.
There was no kind of habitation with
in sight, and the hour, Notwithstanding
the moonlight, precluded search. Hunt
wrapped himself in the blanket, and was
soon asleep on the rock where they were
left by the skipper. There was nothing
unexpected or accidental in their situa-
ton. Camping out had been their GUS
tom for some months past. Avoiding
the towns and settlements for the open
country was also their habit. When the
morning came, they looked around the
shores of bay that curved inland from
where they were camping. On the OPP
posite point tishermans cot was to be
seen, and they observed a boy coming
down to the beach. They beckoned to
him with handkerchiefs, and he raised a
lateen sail on the little craft and crossed
to them, and bore them back to his
father, who received them at the hut.
After some breakfast prepared here, they
arranged to be taken up to the city of
Santiago de Cuba--which name the in
habitants shorten by using merely the
last, CUBA" Another rapid drift in
the morning breeze with the lateen sail,
and they landed upon the dock in the
city. Here they were promptly con-
fronted by the inevitable Custom House
officers. A demand for their passports
led to the production of what they had
an American passport without the
Spanish Uise at any regular landing
place. They were at once arrested.
Their appearance was suspicious, and
they were sent on board the Spanish
man-of-war in the harbor, the Cherucca
The routine here was merely one of
delay. Tweed notes his walks, his rides
in the volante, the streets and public
places, the churches and buildings, the
hot days, and their negro professions
and carnivals. His social contact,
through the American, French and En-
glish Consuls' residences, with the local
society seems to have been free and cor
dial, with dinners, picnics and excursions
around the city.
At last the Vice Consul and the Con-
sui General, the Captain of the Port at
Santiago, and the Admiral of Marine at
Havana were brought into accord, and
he was permitted to engage passage i'll
the Spanish bark Carmen for Barcelona
and Vigo.
On Sept. 6, after voyage of forty-two
day, the Carmen arrived in the beautiful
bay of vigo. Boarded by the Custom
House and health officers, the anchor
was cast at quarantine, small island in
the center of the bay, where the Laza-
retto buildings stand, and to which they
were transferred for the usual cleansing
and fumigation. Tweed found himself
formally arrested here his diary,
papers, and baggage were taken
from him; and after seven days in the
Lazaretto he was ordered to be taken
to the castle or fortress as prisoner of
state.
Tweed was taken from the little island
of San Simon, where the Lazaretto
stands, over to the city, and, in the GUS
tody of guard of Spanish soldiers, he
was marched mp the hill toward the castle
or fortress that crowns the city of Vigo.
On his way along the steep road he had
municate with the guard, but his defect
i've Spanish enabled him to make out
with difficulty that he must be held as a
prisoner of state. In maze as to what
his fate must now be, he resumed his
toll up the hill, and in due time reached
his destiny in the castle. Ushered into
an apartment, he found it to COM
prise stone floor, stone walls, and a
stone ceiling. There was nothing else
except the door he had entered and a
narrowwindow. Theyhad the satisfaction
at least of being shut in together and
not separated. If they could not talk
intelligibly to the guard, they could at
least converse with and understand each
other. But what was the use !?
They could not even satisfy them
selves with conjectures as to the occa-
sion of their position. Certainly the old
difficulty about the passports could not
have given rise to all this grim proceed
ing. 1t seemed very weary waiting until
servant-woman came, bringing two
iron beds, with bedding, Spanish fash
ion, on her head. Indication was made
by Tweed that he desired to see the Off
Ger of the guard or Governor of the
castle. But his efforts merely enabled
him to have permission to get temporary
wants satisfied from hotel or tavern.
Food, such as they desired to pay for.
with beer or wine, and some mating for
the floor, were provided and they
started in with some idea of patience and
cleerfulnass waiting what MIGHT ,,o,-4