| Show DANGERS THAT WERE FACED robion 11 ana and his seven men went into the jaws of death with the fleet off santiago de coba cobas june S 3 via vis kingston jamaica a J june a n e 7 to appreciate the great dancer danger of the expedition the character of the defenses of the harbor of franti ago de cuba must be bg known the entrance to the broad and deep harbor on which the city faces is ia bya by a narrow channel about a mile long and each side guarded by a hill standing almost per to a height of feet at one point the neck of this approach is less than feet wide and only tive live and one halt half fathom fathoms deep so that to enter ships must go coin in one at a time on a bill hill oa on the eastern side oaf of the harbor Is alorro morro castle with five 24 yo five 18 and two modern rapid fire puns guns on the western bill are two batt batteries erics with modern gune guns at the base of morro castle are several cans guns landed loaded with shrapnel to sweep the face of the water and opposite la is a similar battery going around the first curve of the narrow entrance cayo smith an island oland is found facine facing down the harbor barbor with a battery of modern suns gune in the narrow neck of the passage are three rows of mines each row fifty feet apart and the mines 16 in a row each 30 0 feet apart the reina mercede mercedee lies in the shadow of cayo smith partly dismantled but having her four torpedo tubes loaded and facing down the channel about hall half way up the channe channel nel OB on the eastern bank ie Is the Es ee with several smoothbore guns inns and thia this was the menacing hole of death into which hobson Hob and his to men en ventured with the merrimac |
