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“...buried
George Bennett, who “ came here a soldier under General
Venables,” and two infant sons of Governor Sir William
Beeston, who died in 1677 and 1678, and Elizabeth
Dalling.
King’s House, the official residence of the Governor,
is about four miles from Kingston in the parish of St.
Andrew, on the Liguanea Plain. Like the public
buildings it was designed by Sir Charles Nicholson and
is constructed of reinforced concrete. The building
comprises three floors, the rooms being arranged round
an open patio, and most of them opening on to broad
verandahs. The billiard- and ball-rooms are very lofty
apartments, the latter measuring 70 feet by 30 feet.
The grounds cover about 177 acres....”
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“...are the Cathedral and San Pedro Claver. Both
are in a sad state of disrepair ; but it is possible to gauge | •
from the fabric how handsome these churches must have 1
been.
The House of Inquisition near the principal square is 1
now the residence of a merchant who courteously permits i
visitors to inspect it. Cartagena was one of the head- ; !'
quarters of the Inquisition in the New World, the others
being at Lima and in Mexico. It is said that the cruel
apparatus of torture is buried in the patio, where several
tall and graceful palms now grow which it would be a pity
to displace. In one room an old and worn railing is
pointed out, behind which the victims are said to have
stood when they received their sentence; from there they
were removed to a windowless chamber beyond, where
the punishment known as auto-da-fé was inflicted....”
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