Morro Castle [Stereoview]
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Morro Castle [Stereoview]Description
Morro Castle has always been used as a prison for political offenders against Spanish rule in Cuba, and also as a fort to guard the entrance to the Harbor of Santiago, which is nearly seven miles inland. In places exposed to attack the walls, the fort are from 16 to 20 feet in thickness and built with solid masonry.Context
At the head of the harbor, high on its cliff, stood Morro Castle - silent, medieval, grim. Its battlements of formidable masonry gave no indication of the noisome dungeons in which many an inhuman execution has taken place just below, nor telling of the ravenous sharks which inhabit the waters at the base of the cliff, ready to seize the first morsel of flesh that should come their way, be it animal or human—sharks which have been quick to destroy for an age the butchered evidence of Spanish cruelty.Category
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