Henry Adams 



were missionaries in the Fiji Islands or 

 New Guinea. Carelessly, as though 

 we were hanging about this Club, we 

 were inviting, every day, accidents of 

 a kind that were every day occurring. 

 At any moment a file of Spanish sol- 

 diers might walk in, and not bid us 

 goodbye until we were safely on board 

 the steamer for Nassau and New 

 York ; and the only obvious reason 

 for not locking us up, or sending us 

 off, was that, if the governor began, 

 he could never stop, for, as far as 

 King could see, every man, woman, 

 or child in the entire province was a 

 rebel or brigand or both. 



For myself I saw the humor of the 

 situation rather acutely. Sticking 

 to the habit of wandering off, every 

 morning, across the mountain ridges, 

 and through the by-paths of the for- 

 est, it was always sure that some of 

 King's friends of the night before 

 were not far off ; and their reputa- 

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