At eleven o?clock
we were in Baracoa harbour...

... a splendid sight with the Yunque profiled against the horizon and the white squadron of banana boats. This landscape is still alive with the memory of Christopher Columbus, the very first White man to admire its savage grandeur.

Baracoa is Cuba's oldest city!

I've now been told this about five cities. But here it appears to be true! Baracoa dates to 1512, Bayamo to 1513 and Trinidad to 1514.

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The Ta?no, the Native Cubans who greeted Columbus when he landed in the Bay of Baracoa, are no more. Their disappearance, like that of so many magnificent Native American races, is a blemish on the face of the European, pseudo-Christian civilization that did it all in the name of Christ and King!

Bananas are the main crop here, rising up every slope. They are the wealth of the mountains, just as sugar cane is the wealth of the plains! Everything here is organized for growing and shipping them.

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Under the Cuban Sun with Marie-Victorin [Jardin botanique de Montréal]

At eleven o?clockwe were in Baracoa harbour...

At eleven o?clock
we were in Baracoa harbour...