CHAPTER XII.

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