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 CHAPTER XIII. 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 CHAPTER XIV. 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 CHAPTER XV. 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 CHAPTER XVI. 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 CHAPTER XVII. THE COLONY AT THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR. The Saw Mill--The Pole Tramway to the Bay--A Tragedy in the Colony--Death of Mr. Bosworth--The Summer Season--The Country Around La Gloria--The Cuban Colonization Company--Guanaja--The Rural Guard--Organizations in La Gloria--The March of Improvements--Construction of Wooden Buildings--Colonists Delighted With Their New Home in the Tropics 212 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. James M. Adams Frontispiece.