Home › The Picturesque in the War › The Picturesque in the War: Upon

The Picturesque in the War: Upon

I assured the general that I should be very much honored to accept his kind hospitality, and we passed into a long room, half balcony and half windows. Upon the walls were wooden shields with various kinds of sabres fastened to them, the blades beaming in the sunlight. Upon one of them hung a wreath of laurels, tied with ribbons of red and yellow. Upon the ribbons was written in letters of gold: "To the brave an illustrious Dan Valeriano Weyler, Cobernador-General de la Isla de Cuba."

This historical penciling possesses unique value, because it is by a woman and of a man whose position in the crisis of the conflict between the Spaniards and Cubans gives him the interest of exceptional importance. CONCERNING THE TROCHA.