It was learned from various sources that reinforcements were pouring into Las Tunas from all directions; a newspaper from Sancti Spiritus stated that two thousand men had been despatched from the nearest trocha.
Tunas is connected by rail with Sancti Spiritus, a town of considerable size, and reinforcements and artillery had been rapidly coming in.
It was determined to proceed during the night to Palo Alto, fifty miles to the eastward, the Helena remaining at Las Tunas to confirm the Spaniards in the belief that an attempt was to be made to land there.
The victory was a notable one, especially as Weyler had cabled his government that Tunas was impregnable.
Guines, however, was taken by them, and General Garcia captured the fortified post of Tunasafter a fight of three days.
Bring down the Tunas with a fishing rod or a long pole with a nail in the end.
The food at this place was tunas and the kernels of pine apples, better than those of Spain, but smaller, as were the trees[141].
They rested that night in a wood, where they roasted tunas as food.
North of Manzanillo, and extending west along the coast of Camaguey and Santa Clara, we have the shallow harbors of Romero, Santa Cruz del Sur, Jucaro, Tunas de Zaza and Casilda.
Considerable amounts of sugar are also shipped from Casilda, the port of Trinidad on the south coast, and some from Tunas de Zaza, at the mouth of the Zaza River, thirty miles further east.
Another ridge, just south of the latter city, extends from the Tunas de Zaza railroad to a point east of the Manatee River, near the harbor of Cienfuegos.
The Manatee River is a small stream with its origin in the center of the nest of mountains that lie north of Trinidad; it flows south until it empties into the Caribbean, midway between the ports of Casilda and Tunas de Zaza.
Tunas de Zaza (Santa Clara), with fifteen hundred population, is in such a poor country agriculturally and aquatically, that the railway has a monopoly in carrying vegetables and water supply to the people.
The Las Tunas Railway extends from Zaza to Valle, twenty-four miles, and was built to connect Sancti Spiritus with the seaboard, though it is not yet completed.
The Cubans were, however, able to disperse a body of Spanish troops which were advancing toward Las Tunas in the hope of relieving the citizens of that place, which was also in a state of siege.
The fall of Las Tunas has made the fate of Holguin, Bayamo, and Jiguani very uncertain.
For more than two weeks before the attack on the city, the commander at Las Tunas had been aware that the Cubans were advancing, and contemplated an assault on it.
He throws the whole blame of the disaster on the river stations, and declares that if they had only answered his appeal, Las Tunas might have been saved.
When it was found that Las Tunas could hold out no longer, an unarmed officer was sent out to parley with the Cubans.
The Government in Madrid has cabled to Weyler that Las Tunas must be retaken at any cost.
As a matter of fact, the insurgents had been so active in the neighborhood of the Canto River that the garrisons had all been abandoned, and the messages from Las Tunas were never received.
The Tunas are fruits of different species of Cactus.
When being plucked, thetunas are rubbed with straw to remove the prickles, which, however, is not always completely accomplished.
Both the pitahaya and the cina flower and fruit like the saguaro, the tunas yielded by the former being especially esteemed by Mexicans as well as Indians.
The edible tunas average about the size of lemons, and resemble figs save that their skin is beset with prickles.
While occasional tunas may be found at any time during the year, the normal harvest occurs about midsummer, or shortly before the July-August humid season, and lasts for several weeks.
The fruits of all these cacti are sometimes classed as sweet tunas, in contradistinction from the sour tunas yielded in great abundance by the cholla and consumed with avidity by stock, though seldom eaten by men.
All of the cacti of the region yield tunasin considerable quantity.
While the dance was going on, the Coyote came to see what he could get from the feast, and the Grey Fox also came, and he brought some tunas (fruit of the nopal cactus).
He gave him some tunas from which he had not cleaned off the spines, and as the spines hurt the Coyote he became very angry and wanted to eat the Grey Fox.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tunas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
