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Santiago de Cuba is the most fertile of any place which we have seen of Cuban soil. The hills are covered with trees, and old sand fort looms up before us all the places are situated on the cliffy shore. [ ] near the mouth of the Bay is an old Cuban town or village it lies high on a plateau, banana trees and the Spanish Magnolia grow around it. The Bay is shallow and a Cuban pilot has taken the charge of the "Resolute" to lead her up into the Bay. Captain Eaton has not that responsibility. Palmetto trees are abundant, they are a sort of palm.

 It is truly worth a good

deal of ones life to be privileged to see this famed spot. It is a privilege which I can hardly realize as yet. But when I stop to think that I am such a distance from the shores of the United States and add to that my Illinois