Chapter XXIV: Appendix: E

THE BAY OF GUANTANAMO.

On the extreme southeastern coast of Cuba, some distance east of Santiago, is Guantanamo, or Cumberland Bay. It is an exceedingly beautiful sheet of water, with a narrow entrance, guarded by high hills. It extends twelve miles inland, with a level coast-line to the westward, and high hills on the north and east.

Five miles from the entrance is the little town of Caimanera, from which runs a railroad to the town of Guantanamo, twelve miles distant, with its terminus at the town of Jamaica. There are two and one-half square miles of anchorage, with a depth of forty feet, so far inside as to be fully protected from the wind. For vessels drawing twenty-four feet or less there are about two more square miles of harbourage.

FOOTNOTES

1 See Appendix, Part A, for general description of the Philippine
Islands and their inhabitants.

2 See Appendix B for types of war-ships and methods of signalling
while in action.

3 See Chapter X.

4 See Chapter X.

5 See Chapter X.

6 See Chapter X.

7 See Chapter X.

8 See Chapter X.

9 See Chapter X.

10 See Chapter X.

11 See Chapter X.

12 See Chapter X.

13 See Chapter X.

14 See Chapter X.

15 See Chapter X.

16 See Chapter X.

17 See Chapter X.

18 See Chapter X.

19 See Chapter X.

20 See Chapter X.

21 See Appendix A for description of Manila.

22 See Chapter X.

23 See Chapter X.

24 See Chapter X.

25 See Chapter X.

26 See Chapter X.

27 See Chapter X.

28 See Chapter X.

29 See Chapter X.

30 See Chapter X.

31 See Chapter X.

32 See Chapter X.

33 For types of war-ships see Appendix B.

34 See Appendix C for description of Santiago Harbour.

35 See Chapter XVII.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

The illustrations, which were printed on separate pages in the original edition, have been placed between paragraphs near the original positions, which can be seen in the list of illustrations.

The following changes have been made to the text:

page 19, “last of March” changed to “last days of January”
page 22, “Viscaya” changed to “Vizcaya”
page 51, “procotol” changed to “protocol”
page 80, italics added to “Baltimore’s”
page 80, “San Juan de Austria” changed to “Don Juan de Austria”
page 81, “Valasco” changed to “Velasco”
page 85, quote added before “Capt. Frank Wildes”
page 89, “flagship” changed to “flag-ship”
page 133, double “the” removed before “gunboat”
page 158, “first class” changed to “first-class”
page 166, “Albermarle” changed to “Albemarle”
page 194, “armored” changed to “armoured”
page 264, double quote removed after “dying.’”
page 270, “of” changed to “off”
page 309, “organized” changed to “organised”
page 321, “flag-staff” changed to “flagstaff”
page 370, “WARSHIPS” changed to “WAR-SHIPS”
page 383, “Mono” changed to “Morro”

Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling of names in citations has not been changed.