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Updated: July 6, 2025
Gordon has read of Don Alvaro de Valdés y Castillo, lord of demesnes without number, conqueror of the Moors and of the fierce island English who then infested Spain in swarms. His retinue was as that of a king. At his many manors fed daily thirty thousand men at arms. In all Europe no knight so brave, so chivalrous, so skillful with lance and sword. To the nobles his word was law.
We looked out to sea from the Castillo and then we talked with the guard. We often met a lunatic there, who was in the care of a servant. As soon as he caught sight of us children, the lunatic was happy at once, but if a woman came near him, he ran away and flattened himself against the walls, kicking and crying out: "Blind dog! Blind dog!"
Don Sanchez del Castillo de Castelaña." And then to turn the subject, he adds: "I have seen you play twice." "Aye, Señor, and I should have known you again if by nothing but this piece of generosity," replies Dawson, with his cheek full of pasty, "for I remember both times you set down a piece and would take no change."
Lopez Baeza nodded. "Why not talk with Ramon Castillo yourself?" he asked. "That is what I want to do." "I will arrange for it. When?" "To-night," said Hillyard. Lopez Baeza lifted his hands in deprecation. "Yes. I can take you to his house now. But, señor, Ramon is a poor man. He lives in a little narrow street." Hillyard looked quietly at Lopez Baeza.
I remember also having seen a young woman, who was insane, in a great house which we used to visit in those days at Loyola. She gesticulated and gazed continually into a deep well, where a half moon of black water was visible far below. These lunatics, one at the Castillo and the other in that great house, haunted my imagination as a child.
Every morning and evening she goes there, and prays for the soul of her husband, and the return of her lost boy." "How long is it since the poor lady was so bereft?" The narrator reflected, and replied: "Twenty-two or three years." "May the castle be found?" "Yes." "Have you been to it?" "Many times." "How was it named?" "After the Count Il Castillo di Corti." "Tell me something of its site."
With one hundred and fifty men he sailed from New Orleans and landed at San del Norte on the Caribbean side. While he formed a camp on the harbor of San Juan, one of his officers, with fifty men, proceeded up the river and, capturing the town of Castillo Viejo and four of the Transit steamers, was in a fair way to obtain possession of the entire route.
Some were killed, others driven insane, although after a time some were released upon appeals made by the press and by many notables of other countries of Europe. The Prime Minister of Spain, Canovas del Castillo, was chiefly responsible for the torture of the victims. And in 1897 a young Italian, Angiolillo, went to Spain, and, at an interview which he sought with the Prime Minister, shot him.
Without positively assigning a determinate place in the table of formations to the limestone of Guines, which is that of the Castillo and La Punta, I have no doubt of the relative antiquity of that rock with respect to the calcareous agglomerate of the Cayos, situated south of Batabano, and east of the island of Pinos.
He retired to Queretaro, where Generals Miramon, Castillo, Mejia, Avellano, and Prince Salm-Salm had gathered a little army of about eight thousand men. Maximilian at Queretaro showed all his nobleness of spirit, kindness of heart, and simplicity of life.
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