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steward. A speech was made by one of the old women, who appeared to be 

 a leader among them. Among other things, she begged that they might 

 not be forced to wear the clothes of civilization. This was translated, 

 and the Governor made a suitable reply, saying that the Carolinos would 

 always meet with kindness at his hands as long as they obeyed the laws 

 of the island and were honest and upright in their behavior.* They 

 then took their departure, highly pleased. 



Saturday, July 21. — Last night the citizens of Agaiia gave the new 

 Governor a grand ball. While I was preparing to go Susana came in 

 from the kitchen and asked if I needed anything more before her depar- 

 ture for the night. I asked her if she were not going to the ball, and 

 she replied, " Why, Seiior ! what would an old woman like me be doing 

 at a ball ? " I told her not to be foolish, but to go home and dress. She 

 then asked me whether she should go with me or her brother. I told 

 her to go with her brother, of course ; that at the ball she would be the 

 sister of Don Gregorio, the Gobernadorcillo of Agaiia, not Susana, the 

 cook of Mr. Safford. When I reached the school-house where the ball 

 was held I did not see Susana and I asked for her. She was hidden 

 away in a corner of the refreshment-room. I went up to her and said : 

 "Susana, what does this mean ! come right along and be presented to 

 the new Governor." So I made her take my arm and we entered the 

 ball-room, where the two governors stood receiving. When Captain 

 lyeary saw us coming he exclaimed, " Why, there comes Aunt Susana ! " 

 but I marched her straight up to the reception stand and said as formally 

 as possible : "Governor, let me present Doiia Susana Perez, the sister 

 of the Gobernadorcillo of Agaiia ; whereupon she made a very pretty 

 curtsey." After this Susana held quite a reception. All the young 

 officers, who had drunk her good chocolate, surrounded her and greeted 

 her politely, after which she took a seat with some of her friends, 

 to watch the dancing. Governor Schroeder asked me who was re- 

 garded the principal lady of the island. I told him Doiia Juliana, 

 the wife of Don Juan de Torres, our Island Treasurer. He opened the ball 

 with her, and I danced opposite him in the lancers, with Doiia Ana Pan- 

 gelinan. Susana wore a brightly colored gingham dress which I had 

 given her for a Christmas gift, but many of the ladies were handsomely 

 dressed in European style. I could not help thinking how much poor 

 Doiia Emilia would have enjoyed it all. Her son-in-law, Don Pedro 

 Duarte, came to help dispense the good things, but he wore a badge 

 of mourning on his arm and did not dance. There were excellent wines, 

 including an abundance of champagne, and the table was filled with good 



*It was practically impossible to make these people assume the dress of civilized people. The 

 entire colony was afterwards sent away from the island to Saipan, one of the German islands of the 

 Marianne group, where there was already a colony of Carolinos. 



