Show ISLAND OF OE JAMAICA f FOR OR YEARS THE ASYLUM OF CUBAN PATRIOTS PATRIOTS Virginias Filibusters tho the Night They Get Bet et Out Oat ou on Their Ill- Ill Fated Attempt to Establish Free Freedom om I on tho Soil SoU of Cuba Special Letter O 0 W H E R It E does docs w 1 greater interest lt in ina inthe a N the Spanish Amer 1 scan ican war exist wan man tr throughout ot the f is island is- is ir I i land of ot Jamaica p lJ t q f- f and in particular in inI inthe I I w 1 I the chief chiet towns like 1 1 Kingston Port An- An i tt tonio Montego Bay and Falmouth Nor Noris r is is' the reason for tor this difficult to appreciate or explain The chief of ot British West Indian possessions possessions possessions pos pos- sessions the island of ot wood and water to give It Its old title has for tor many years offered an asylum to the insurgents who worn out with fightIng fighting fight fight- y ing or anxious for tor private reasons to escape from Cuba have found beneath the English flag that refuge wh which ch is r never denied to the alien For 25 years i and more Indeed Jamaica has been thet the t shelter toward which the Cuban has turned his eyes and during that time tune many of Spain's oppressed colonists have exiled themselves to take up res res- residence resIdence residence and Indeed to transplant their homes among their fellow countrymen who dwell in the sea At the time of ot the last great Cuban j 1 Insurrection some 26 years ago when Indeed war was imminent b between tween Spain and the United States over the incident the island In general general general gen gen- eral and Kingston in particular was wrought up to the wildest pitch of ot excitement excitement excitement ex ex- for It will be remembered I that that Ill fated vessel was fitted out out j w 1 r a s 11 I J HOUSE CLEANER OBEAH CLEANER OBEAH MAN In Kingston where Varona Ces Cespedes des i idel del Sol and Ryan the leaders of ot the expedition who when the ship was I captured and taken into Cuban waters aters were subsequently shot resided for tor a time and made many friends The night b before t re they left on ol t their fatal tatal venture in fact a ball was given in their honor by the leading citizens many of t them acc accompanied d them down the harbor next day on the Virginius In order to to bid bid them a last farewell farewell and to literally speed the parting guest Jamaica indeed Is very favorably situated to afford such shelter to the Cubans for tor only some seventy or eighty eighty eighty ty miles of s sea sea a div divide de the north of ot the island from from the southern and eastern points of ot Cuba like Cape de Cruz and Santiago As the sea is commonly i calm it is is not infrequent for the refugees refugees refugees refu refu- I gees to trust themselves in open boats and to sail or row across the narrow narrow strip of water landing at Falmouth Montego Ba Bay or some other part of ot the northern coast in the neighbor neighbor- hood So close clos' indeed are Cuba Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica Ja Ja- maica and Hayti that on a fin fine day it itI itis itis I is possible for the tl three re islands to le be beIn lein be beIn In sight at one time from a certain point joint in the route route which is taken by bythe bythe bythe the steamers running between New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Jamaica The intercourse begun necessity necessity necessity ne ne- between the Cubans and Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica Ja Ja- Ja- Ja maica has long ripened into friendship while not a few thriving businesses in Kingston are the outcome of ot this change of ot residence on the part of the Spanish visitors Another reason for this interest which takes the form torm of sympathy for Cuba is found in the fact tact of ot a traditional traditional hatred of Spain which is felt by the descendants of the old Spanish families many of ot whom were driven out of ot that country at at atthe the time of ot the Inquisition and took up their residence residence residence resi resi- dence in Jamaica Remnants of ot the Spanish government of ot the island indeed in- in indeed indeed in in- deed still exist such as the fort on ona a rock near the sea at Rio Nuevo near Port Maria which was built by Don Christopher Arnaldi Saat the Spanish governor of ot the island at the time when It was conquered by tho the British and the little bay in St. St Anns which owns its name Runaway name Runaway bay bay to to the fact that it was from there that he be made his escape from the Island in a canoe after atter he was defeated by Col Tyson while Spanish Town or St. St go de la Vega was at one time the l lk k I t tt fJ capital of ot the is Island and whose v original Spanish nationality i is attested by Innumerable innumerable innumerable In in- numerable Instances In the names of its towns villages rivers and moun moun- The little mUe coffin shown In one of ot the illustrations is an evidence of ot the Jamaican Jamaican Jamaican Ja Ja- Ja- Ja maican obeah mans man's work It stands on trestles with a necked broken-necked bottle bottle bottle bot bot- tle on it In the middle of ot a a. yam piece placed there because the mans man's yams had pad been stolen and effect effectually aIly prevented any further thefts thefts thefts-so so it is Is' Is said Obeah is said to be derived from the Greek meaning a serpent serpent snakes being Indispensable to the obeah man who Is a sort of all around wizard It is a religious superstition of at the negroes and is still sUll much practiced practiced practiced chiefly among the Haytian set set tiers |