15 rivers to cross… and only 7 bridges!

Here’s how we were able to bring you…

The GRANADA!

In spite of bandits, jaguars, baby dinosaurs and high water… at a price that will make a happy bandit out of YOU!

I used to think that the only way to have a real adventure anymore was to be an astronaut or something. But that was before my recent trip to the Hidden Valley in Honduras, where the alluvial soil is six feet deep and everybody and his brother carries a six-shooter for bandit insurance.

Maybe you thought I just sit around writing letters to my good customers and wrapping cigar boxes to take to the Post Office. Not so. You don’t get the best tobacco settin’ at home on your resources. And, believe me, you don’t always find the comforts of home elsewhere.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m in this business at all --- and why I go all over Hell’s half-acre to insure my supply of good tobacco. Yet if I didn’t go right down to the tobacco farms and check the crops for myself, I’d never be able to offer you the cigars I do. And I certainly would never have found the priceless bales of wrapper I brought back from my last trip to Central America.

Getting to the Hidden Valley of the Jalapa River is like going through boot training in the Marines all over again --- only rougher. There are 15 rivers to cross and only 7 bridges. We had to ford the streams with four-wheel drive jeeps to get around down there --- and the locals had to build a special airport to fly their tobacco crops out to civilization.

I was tracked by a jaguar, avoided the embrace of an amorous boa constrictor, was jeered at by monkeys and stared at by a suspicious mountain lion. I ate the eggs of the baby dinosaur (that’s what they call their iguanas) and they were delicious. I sampled the dinosaur meat, too, and it’s even better than the eggs.

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I was even stopped and frisked as a suspicious character by the local gendarmerie. And when I asked them why they carried both six-shooters and shovels, they carefully explained their “six-by-six” justice to me. When they find a bandit, they use the six-shooter first --- then the shovel to put him six feet under. It’s civil rites, instead of civil rights down there, and there’s a high turnover --- or turnover --- in the bandit population.

But the best is often the hardest to get to --- and I made it to the Hidden Valley, where ex-Cubans plow their way around ancient Mayan monuments to plant some of the very best cigar tobacco in the world.

I bought lots of filler tobacco from the last crop (it’ll be ready for shipment in about six months). But one little farm I visited yielded a real bonanza:

I put this wrapper in an old DC3, took off in the rain over a runway full of potholes and brought it back with me to Tampa and locked it up under tight security. Finding those 11 bales of wrappers was enough to make the whole trip a success. That sungrown Cuban seed wrapper is grown without shade or protection. The plant loses about 40% of its leaves through natural causes, so the remaining leaves get all the nourishment, making them even tastier and more satisfying to smoke.

I took this wrapper and used it to finish off some 100% imported filler --- made it in the Palma shape and created a cigar that will give you a real break --- through in smoking pleasure. It has no bite. It’s got an aroma that’s all but hypnotic. And it burns with the long, white ash that’s a dead giveaway for a fine wrapper around superior, carefully selected filler.

I think an experience like this is worth sharing with your friends ---

And at $16,84 a hundred, they’re a steal!

Those 11 bales of sungrown wrapper won’t last forever. I put them all around the Granada and when this batch is gone I won’t have any more Granadas at this price or any price.

But for a lucky stumble in the jungle, I wouldn’t be able to offer them at all. So if you want to enjoy one of the best-smoking cigars you’ve ever tested --- a real adventure in smoking that came from a real, foot-sore adventure in a wild and wonderful place --- I’d suggest you get out your ball-point pen and sign up for some genuine and guaranteed smoking excitement on the enclosed order form.