The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-13
CIENFUEGOs.

"The City of a Hundred Fires"-A
Yankee Town in Southern Cuba
Which Will Some Day Become the
Chicago of the Island.
Especial Correspondence of the Journal
and Courier.)
Washington, June s, 1898.
This city of the fiery name lies
long way west from Santiago, but on
the same side of the island. Like Cor
tez when he passed this way to the
conquest of misunderstanding to his
chronicler, Bernal Diaz-'.we sailed at
hazard toward that part of the hori-
zon where the sun set" At least it
seemed "at hazard" when, few hours
after leaving Santiago. we rounded
Cabo de Cruz and skirted the bank of
Buena Esperanto Good Hoppe, and
found ourselves among the green Gays
of Doce Leguas. These are the innu-
merable islets named by Columbus
l ''The Queens Gardens" in the mazes
of which his caravals wandered aim
lessly many days. Nowadays the reg
ular steamers take their course far
around them, in deeper water out of
| sight of land; and probably that is the
| reason why modern visitors to Cuba
| seldom speak of this most beautiful
and interesting archipelago. For jour-
| journeying in the Antilles, at a favor
able season of the year and when time
| is mo object" by all means take a
yacht, or some local coaster, and stick
| close to shore. You will wind in and
out a thousand bights and coves of
translucent blue, whose silvery beaches
are fringed with cocoa-palms; and al
ways inland is glorious picture of cloud
and mountain, the tranquil waters you
are threading shut off by green islets
| from the uncertain Caribbean.
| Hardly had the dark Cobre range,
stretching from Santiago to Cape Cruz.
| faded from view, before the Trinidad
| mountains spxAng out of the mist to
meet us. The latter are not so impos-
ing or 50 rich as the Cobre heights
| with their Pico Turquine, the highest
peak in Cuba and their exhaustless
deposits of copper and iron-but are
much more beautiful, being densely
| wooded to the clouds that veil their
SUBMITS.
The only city we pass is also called
La Trinidad, in honor of the Holy Trim
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est on the island, with a famous and
fertile valley of the same name behind
it. Then another long line of noun
tains whose highest peak Is Turto; and
then, after while, break in the coast
line a light house and another Moro
reveals the entrance to Cienfnegos har-
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