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Updated: May 8, 2025
The men wore long, fur-trimmed capes over satin suits; plume-bedecked hats sat obliquely on their heads; on their chests hung superb chains. They were all so regally gotten up that the whole lot of them might have been kings. The women went about in high head-dresses and long robes with tight-fitting sleeves.
Some of the wretched reptiles were carefully wrapped in soft blankets, their heads and forefeet protruding, and, mounted on the backs of the plume-bedecked pilgrims, made ludicrous but solemn caricatures of little children in the same position. While I was at supper upstairs that evening, the governor's brother-in-law came in. He was welcomed by the family as if a messenger from heaven.
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