Population of Colony Slowly Increases--Arrival of Second _Yarmouth_--Sensational and Ridiculous Reports--Consternation in Asbury Park--Laughing Over Newspaper Stories--Excitement Over Sugar--Mass Meeting to Air the Grievance--An Unexpected Turn of Affairs--Cable From New York Brings Good News--Van der Voort Elected President of the Company--Sugar Orators Remain Silent--A Noisy Celebration 86 CHAPTER VII. 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 CHAPTER VIII. 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 CHAPTER IX. STEPS OF PROGRESS. Clearing and Planting--The Post-office--Col. John F. Early--The "Old Señor"--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 CHAPTER X. 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 CHAPTER XI. SELF-RELIANCE OF THE COLONISTS. The Man With the Hoe--"Grandpa" Withee Able to Take Care of Himself--Not Dead, but Very Much Alive--A Pugnacious Old Man--Mr. Withee Shoots Chickens and Defies the Authorities--Big Jack McCauley and His "Influence"--"Albany" and the Mosquitoes--Arrival of Third _Yarmouth_--Arnold Mollenhauer--John A. Connell--S. W. Storm--The First School and Its Teacher 143 CHAPTER XII. THE FIRST HOLIDAY IN LA GLORIA.