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