The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-27

and stores of food was immediately fit
 storms prevented it's leaving port. At I last, When hope had almost died out of every heart in the beleaguered city the dispatch boat crept under the rock by night, and at q given signal it's crew
 was hauled up over the precipice, to an- nounce that the Genoese fleet was close at hand. Then what was the joy in Bo- nifazio. Merry chimes rang out from all the church towers, signal fires blazed on every vantage point, and the Ara gonese, in their sullen camps, listened in astonishment to the exultant shouts that rent the air. The day of surren- der arrived and the Spaniards, una ware of the approach of the Genoese in their rear, pressed for admission at the gates of Bonifazio, according to the terms agreed upon. The soldiers replied that tke Genoese had arrived during the, night; and behold. armed figures carry ing the Genoese standard, were seen marching round and round the battle ments, their lances shining in the morn- ing light It was the women of Boni- fazio, every one of whom had put on
 
 town seemed trebled Said Alfonso, Have the Genoese wings, that they can reach this rock when we command eve ry approach to it?" He ordered the at tack to be renewed; and just as the Spanish ships were ready to begin an- other bombardment of the famishing town the Genoese ships burst through the chains that closed the harbor. The long stairway leading up to the citadel known as "Escallier on Roi d'Aragon," is said to have been built by King Ara gon in his futile efforts to take the town but that tradition is probably untrue Again, in 1854, Henry ". of France besieged the place in alliance with a Turkish fleet. After gallant resistance it fell, through treachery, | into the hands of the French, but wa9 afterwards restored to the Genoese, who repaired and enlarged it's Notifications, As garrisoned by the present owners of , Corsica, the French, it is a place of al- most impregnable strength, and yet pre- serves it's criminal character of for tified aown of the middle ages. There | are the same old towers, walls and | churches; the extremely tall houses, | with the arms of noble Genoese families carved in stone over their portals; and a network of narrow and irregular streets, spreading all over the plateau within the walls, which rise from the | very edge of the cliff. The only en- trance is under the vaulted archway of the barbican, which is still as jealously guarded as if Saracen, Turk and Span lard threatened immediate attack. This tower. with it's bristling guns, the only approach from the sea, by long inclined plane, at a sharp angle; and all day long troops of little 1onkeys toll painfully up and down, every article used in the town. < Owing to its cramped space, there are 10 plazas or other vacant places except he esplanade. The streets, crss- cross ng in the most perplexing manner, rave hardly width enough for two laden mules to pass each other. They are as yoid of every kind of vehicle as those of Venice, and almost as unsavory as it's annals. The dwellings, built of the anne material as the rock on which they tand. are all snowy-white and as valls and towers are also white, the effect of the shadeless place in his sunny latitude, with the sparkling ea in front and the dazzling sky above, s blinding at monday. Every morning lsarly the whole population pours down he inclined plane with their beasts of 'urden to work in the country, miles way, because of course on the barren Tiff there are no gardens or other veg tation. The churches of Bonlfazio are worth visiting. Sainte Marie Majeure, with its wide porch and flying buttress- S, is-of Pisan construction. San Domi- ique, with it's pieced octagonal tower, 5 of the thirteenth century and be- 1nged to the Templars. San Francisco, he newest of all, was begun in 1898. If the weather permits you should by Il means visit some of the sea-wrought averns in the chalky cliffs. The argest grotto, called La Dragonetta, is ust beyond the lighthouse and easily ccessible. It is in two parts, one like 1 n ante-chamber it's gigantic dome cut ( T half and fringed with stalactites. { through this the boat enters the second ( avern, which is lighted from above by