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THE ARRIVAL OF THE COLONISTS IN NUEVITAS HARBOR.

THE JOURNEY TO PORT LA GLORIA

An Irritating Delay--Ashore at Nuevitas--Midnight Row at the Pier--Convivial Colonists Clash With Cubans--Ex-Soldier Takes an Involuntary Bath--The Cuban Police--Hon. Peter E. Park--The Start for La Gloria--Some Intending Colonists Back Out--The Man With the Long, Red Face--The Only Woman--The Fleet Anchors--"To-morrow, Four O'clock, Wind Right, Go!"--An Uncomfortable Night--Cuban Captain Falls Overboard--Port La Gloria Sighted 32

A TOUGH TRAMP TO LA GLORIA CITY.

Arrival at the Port--A Discouraging Scene--Mud, Water, and Sand Flies--The Memorable Walk to La Gloria "City"--An Awful Road--Battle With Water, Mud, Stumps, Roots, Logs, Briers and Branches--Lawyer Park Leads the Strange Procession--La Gloria at Last--The Royal Palm--Women in Masculine Garb--Col. Thos. H. Maginniss--First Night in La Gloria--The Survey Corps--Chief Engineer Kelly--Experiences of the Lowells and Spikers 44

FIRST DAYS IN THE NEW COLONY.

Isolation of La Gloria--The Camp at Night--Strange Sounds in the Forest--The Colonists Happy--Their Excellent Health--Remarkable Cures Effected by the Climate--The Agreeable Temperature--Prolonged Rainy Season--The "Hotel"--The Log Foundation--A Favorite Joke--The Company's Spring--Small Variety of Food--My First Supper in La Gloria--Eating Flamingo and Aged Goat--A Commissary With Nothing to Sell--A Fluctuating Population 59

THE ALLOTMENT OF THE LAND.

The Character of the Contracts--The Question of Subdivision--Some of the Difficulties--Matter Placed in the Hands of a Committee of the Colonists--Fair and Feasible Plan Adopted--Gen. Van der Voort's Arrival in La Gloria--His Boat Nearly Wrecked--Delay in Getting Baggage--Colonists Get Their Land Promptly--The Town as Laid Out--Site Well Chosen--Woods Full of Colonists Hunting for Their Plantations--Different Kinds of Soil 73

THE SUGAR RIOT.

ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES.

The Women in the Camp--Mrs. Moller--Her Costume and Extraordinary Adventures--How She Entered La Gloria--Roosts in a Tree all Night--Builds the First House in La Gloria--Her Famous Cow and Calf--Wonderful Bloomers--Ubiquitous Mrs. Horn--Weighed 250, but Waded Into La Gloria--Not "Rattled" by a Brook Running Through Her Tent--A Pig Hunt and Its Results--Surveyors Lost in the Woods 94

THE CUBANS.

Good People to "Get Along With"--Their Kindness and Courtesy--Harmony and Good Feeling Between the Colonists and Cubans--Their Primitive Style of Living--The Red Soil and Its Stains--Rural Homes--Prevalence of Children, Chickens, and Dogs--Little Girl Dresses for Company With Only a Slipper--Food and Drink of the Cubans--Few Amusements--An Indifferent People--The Country Districts of the Province of Puerto Principe 104

STEPS OF PROGRESS.

Clearing and Planting--The Post-office--Col. John F. Early--The "Old Se?or"--La Gloria Police Force--Chief Matthews' Nightly Trip "Down the Line"--No Liquor Sold, and Practically no Crime Committed--Watchman Eugene Kezar--Religious Services and Ministers--La Gloria Pioneer Association--Dr. W. P. Peirce--Mr. D. E. Lowell--Mr. R. G. Barner--Important Work of the Association 118

EVENTS IMPORTANT AND OTHERWISE.

Worth of the Colonists--Gen. Van der Voort's New Cuban House--The "Lookout Tree"--Its Part in the Cuban Wars--The General's Garden--Marvelously Rapid Growth of Plants--First Birth in La Gloria--Olaf El Gloria Olson--Given a Town Lot--Temperature Figures--Perfection of Climate--The Maginniss Corduroy Road--First Well Dug--Architect M. A. C. Neff 133

SELF-RELIANCE OF THE COLONISTS.

THE FIRST HOLIDAY IN LA GLORIA.

Craving for Athletic Sports--Half Holiday Formally Proclaimed--A Beautiful Day--The Colonists Photographed--Lieut. Evans and His Soldiers of the Eighth U. S. Cavalry--Successful Sports--Baseball Game--An Event not Down on the Program--Excited Colonists--Lawyer C. Hugo Drake of Puerto Principe--His Scheme--Ordered Out of Camp--A Night in the Woods--Lieutenant Cienfuente 155

INDUSTRY OF THE COLONISTS.

Pink Orchids on the Trees--Vegetables Raised and Fruit Trees Set Out--The Various Employments--Working on the Survey Corps--Chief Kelly's Facetious Formula--An Official Kicker--B. F.Seibert--Improvements at the Port--Fish, Alligators, and Flamingo--J. L. Ratekin--First Banquet in La Gloria--Departure of Maginniss Party--First Death in the Colony--Only One Death in Six Months--Lowell's Corduroy Road and Kelly's Permanent Highway 166

THE FIRST BALL IN LA GLORIA.

A Semi-Anniversary--Town Lots and Plantations Allotted in First Six Months--A Grand Ball--French Dancing Master in Charge--Dan Goodman's Pennsylvania Modesty--Organizing an Orchestra at Short Notice--The Ballroom--Rev. Dr. Gill Lends His Tent Floor--Elaborate Decorations--A Transformation Scene--Some Taking Specialties--A Fine Supper--Music in Camp--An Aggravating Cornet Player--Singers in the Colony 177

A WALKING TRIP TO PUERTO PRINCIPE.

Five Good Walkers--A Halt at Mercedes--Sparsely Settled Country--Cuban Trails--A Night in the Woods--A Cripple From Sore Feet--A Pretty Country Place--The Cubitas Mountains--Hunting for the Late Cuban Capital--A Broad and Beautiful View--Seventeen Miles Without a House--Night on the Plain--The City of Puerto Principe--Politeness of Its People--The Journey Home--Sanchez' Sugar Plantation--Lost in the Forest--La Gloria Once More 186

IN AND AROUND LA GLORIA.

Horses That May Have Committed Suicide--Colonel Maginniss "A Master Hand in Sickness"--Sudden and Surprising Rise of Water--A Deluge of Frogs--A Greedy Snake--Catching Fish in Central Avenue--D. Siefert's Industry--Max Neuber--Mountain View--A Facetious Signboard--The Sangjai--An Aggravating and Uncertain Channel 203

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