The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-09-21
A cruise in Caribbean Waters.

H.. tourney. \ Jaunt into Pinar Del Rio
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-,-..4 Correspondence of The journal
MING THE WESTERN END OF CUBA,
Bald La Cienega," August 18th.
-t.ugh Yellow Jack has pre- empted
rs aud September for his harvesting
.,fls 0 this part of the world, there
ae No tear of him in voyage around
s.gls of the islands. The prevailing
.. at winter is the season, par excel
t,r Caribbean cruise, is erroneous.
most favorable time in the year for a
..-sv tour of the Antilles is in the
.lYs that sultry, oppressive mid
..t tween summer and autumn. when
ur multitudes swarm our stuffy
II. d resorts, in vain quest of COM
\u ideal rounding off of one S SUM-
ne is a few weeks spent in the
romance and beauty below the
eam, vaguely known as the
Man," where the soft, warm air
M by sleepy trade winds, the skies
utely cloudless, and the sea bluer
bluest sky that ever arched above !
the nights are glorious with the |
moon Of the tropics, the stars
end more numerous than ever seen
and the Southern Cross guides |
uer, in lieu Of the absent North !
lau pass the long days reclining |
lazily watching the clumsy play
.upoises, flying fish Swimming the |
41e swallows, and those curious |
alvigators called Portuguese men,
s gliding by with all sails set; you
4lmy interest in hundreds of I'M {
sands that float before you like a
IT fairy-land - always another
st ahead, all bathed in eternal
.El, green as the greenest emerald, |
iple heights and silvery beeches
"a palms crowding to the waters
81, And then the never failing delight
living at the picturesque West In
poets, with their glimpSes of life as
foreign as the remotest corner of
the echoing OF the ships signal |
celebrating from hill to hill, in
answered from sea and shore by a
negro boats with wildly gibbering
49, warming out to meet you. Besides
mparable beauty of the voyage
-tue at any time of year-there is
immunity from excessive heat,
-nes, flies, heas, and other land
The late summer; to say nothing
'u.able gain to health in the tonic
.. ia bleezes. Even for travelling in
"a these semi-tropical islands-avoid- !
Nv feyerinfested localities, if you
there is no time SO good as just |
tween the wet season and the dry.
he face Of the country, washed
recent heavy rains, is yet at its
best, before the dust returns
Tea spreads 4 white pail upon the
audscape.
ave determined to wind up our
y in Cuba by circumnavigating it
topping at important ports for a
-w1 and jaunting short distances
Wherever interest or pleasure ip-
We allow ourselves month for |
and then-Providence and the
tlague permitting-inte to HE
across the Atlantic, to see how |
--er spain is making the best of it
.ug mp under losses; and then, if
we'll, we hope for few weeks in
ppines, returning, 81 Di0s quire, |
t' celebrate the twentieth century
-sIance OF this extensive program,
Uncertainties rival the merry dreams |
cite with her milk pail on her head |
tened to Habana to begin the first
communicating Cuba. Finding |
compelled to wait couple of |
the next westward going coaster |
aeluded to utilize the interim by a
nip into Pinar del Rio province,
Western end of the island. You paw
.a--i~h capitalists, who own the only
~ in this province, seven cents a |
IN. the privilege of travelling at an
tte in fourth rate coach pitched to |
}e cargo, or local freight train.
ii-s Slow locomotion is not without |
.li yes, if time is mo object" 1t |
us you fine opportunity to see the
iN You may get out and walk |
Nlenever inclined, or linger behind |
Ie wayside villages and ''catch
Hth the cars at leisure; or, if sure
cent horse, you may even make IA
De-. able detour inland and strike the |
miles farther on, in advance of
IA,
owns en- route are all after the
-rta Cuban pattern, except that these
s il little more shabby and shiftless
al most Of them. san Antonio de
a only two or three hours run from
'iua was once notable place, made
IS mineral waters and the baths of
D. Antonio. To-day it is woefully down
reel; but with agricultural recup-
perhaps its oldtime prosperity
r-lrn, for the mineral waters are
ne. The ruined town of Rio Colo