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Old San Jaun A Walking Tour Continued from page Along these streets paved in history there plenty to see and plenty buy in eluding hammocks brought to the Island by the Taino Indians cigars still handrolled using locally grown Puerto tobacco Suntos lovely detailed woodcarved figurines of the patron saints handmade by local Sonteros intricately woven bobbin lace and musical instruments hewn from native trees such as the a fivestring guitar and simple gourd dating back to Indian times and of course rum the island s major export Besides local crafts there are great buys to be found on imports from around the globe Including silk from Thailand linen FunShto Holidays Roos Travel PRESENT THE2ndANNUAL SAiLAmr at the North Halton Golf Country Club Thursday November 1 We hope you will join us for an evening of fun and entertainment including deck games casino rum punch discjockey and much much more The cost is only S3 00 with proceeds going to Make a Wish For more information call Roos Travel 296GuelphSt Georgetown On 8770138 Holidays Carnival Cruise lines and cotton dresses and suits Spanish antique furniture and repro duct Ions antique kettles ladles and candlesticks native art paintings and sculpture from Haiti handmade wall coverings from Colombia kapok tree mats from the Philippines pure silk and hand woven cotton bedspreads from India and precious jewels gold and silver at prices you never imagined There are several excellent guidebooks to help you along the way Que Pasa written and distributed free courtesy of the Government of Puerto Rico Tourism Company is an excellent guide providing useful information on events In San Juan and out on the island hotel restaurant listings rent a cor agencies important telephone numbers maps and more Centuriesold buildings crowd a tiny island caressed by breezes and surrounded by deep blue water which Juls into a narrow harbour Its almost half a millcnium of history makes Old San Juan the second oldest Europeanbuilt city in Ihe New World and a virtual treasure trove of legends and tales Curious folklore colorful customs and supernatural phenomena mingle with historical facts in innumerable local stories handed down from one generation to he next These talcs of guards abducted by the of torch lit processions praying for an invader defeat of dogs petrified for their patience evoke San Juan s past as vividly as do Its churches forts and the amber glow of its street lamps A shout was heard in the night Each hour the sound long and at times mournful resonated along the length of the city walls Encircling San Juan for some yards these walls were crowned In places by sentry boxes and bastions and pierced by tunnels that were communications routes connecting the outskirts of the city Heavy doors that shut at night protected the tun nels and left San Juan Isolated from the r3est of the island by land and from the rest of the world by sea Of the four doors only the Son Juan Gate next to La Fortaleia on the western shore remains standing today In the sentry boxes rising from this long span of walls guards on duty shouted allclear calls that linked one box to the next and kept the guards awake during starry and stormy nights Of all the sentry boxes the lower one on the north wall of Son Cristobal Fort reaches closest to the sea One night a guard disappeared from the seahugging box At around midnight he did not repeat the allclear call shouted by his companion in the box to the east The guard in the box to the west mistook the voice of the first guard for that of the second and it was not until the next day that the guards absence was reported He never reap peared Officials made an inconclusive investigation of the incident When nothing was found the populace came to the con elusion that the Devil had carried the guard away Some time later the even stranger dlsap of another guard from the same sentry box caused great concern When the same thing happened yet a third time a more complete Investigation finally got to he truth of the disappearances Those three guards dissatisfied with the treatment they were receiving In the military had led After fallowing a treacherous route along the north coast toward the east each hid in a remote shelter changed his identity and lived a rural life of bliss with a local peasant girl Since the results of the final investigation were never made public residents of San Juan remained convinced that the Devil had spirited away the deserters Even today that guard post is known as the Devils sentry box Every night in Puerto Rico can be new adventure How rousing or For more