It seemed most probable that Cervera would make first for the port of San Juan on the Island of Porto Rice, for there he could find water, coal, and other supplies and the protection of land defences, if needed. Sampson therefore set out for that port with his flagship the armoured cruiser New York, the battleships Towa and Indiana, the monitors Terror and Amphi trite, and cruisers Detroit and Montgomery.
Juan was reached on May the 12th, but glance into the harbour sufficed to show that the Spanish ships were not. there. Being sufisticd, too, from the time elapsed, that, the Spaniards would not, seek harbour San Juan, Sampson, after x short bom bardment of the Spanish Batteries, turned his fleet toward the We
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