Other villages of the province are: _San Lorenzo de los Minas_, 3 miles northeast of Santo Domingo, first settled in 1719 by negroes of the Minas tribe, refugees from French Santo Domingo; _San Antonio de Guerra_, situated in the plains 19 miles northeast of the capital; _Boya_, 32 miles northeast of the capital, founded in 1533 by Enriquillo, the last Indian chief and by the last survivors of the Indians of the island: it contains an old church of composite aboriginal Gothic architecture, in which the remains of Enriquillo and of his wife Dona Mencia are believed to rest; _Mella_, 7 miles, and _La Victoria_, 12 miles north of the capital; _Yamasa_, 30 miles northwest of Santo Domingo; and _Sabana Grande_, or _Palenque_, 22 miles west of the city. PROVINCE OF SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS _San Pedro de Macoris_, about 45 miles east of Santo Domingo City, is one of the most modern and flourishing cities of the Republic. In 1885 it was merely a small fishing village, about that time sugar plantations began to be established in the surrounding plains and the town commenced to grow. To-day there are pretty houses, the streets are clean and in good repair, the plaza has a handsome park and the whole city wears a prosperous look. There are busy scenes on the modern docks and in the harbor. Around Macoris, as in other parts of the Republic, there are large numbers of beautiful graceful cocoanut palms and royal palms. The Province of Macoris is small and contains but one other town worthy of mention, namely, _San Jose de los Llanos_, about 15 miles northeast of Macoris, founded in the plains in the eighteenth century. PROVINCE OF SEIBO _Santa Cruz del Seibo_, 74 miles northeast of Santo Domingo, was originally founded by Juan de Esquivel in 1502, but being destroyed by an earthquake in 1751, was moved to its present location, to the north of its old site. It lies in the center of a region devoted to cacao planting and stockraising. The town has a pretty church, and is celebrated in Dominican history as having instigated the reconquest for Spain in 1808 and as having been the home and bulwark of General Pedro Santana, who was idolized by the Seibanos. _Salvaleon de Higueey_, the easternmost city of the Republic, situated 31 miles southeast of Seibo, was also founded by Juan de Esquivel in the days of Ovando. Its church contains a picture of Our Lady of Altagracia, to which miracles are ascribed and which attracts pilgrims from all parts of Santo Domingo and Haiti. Other towns are _Hato Mayor_, 18 miles west of Seibo; _Ramon Santana_, formerly called _Guaza_, 19 miles south-west of Seibo; _La Romana_, on the coast 25 miles south of Seibo, with rapidly expanding sugar estates; and _El Jovero_, a hamlet on the coast near the eastern end of Samana Bay. PROVINCE OF SAMANA