All about were women and girls in their best spring dresses, many imported from London, and there were several men whom Robert knew by their garb to be clergymen.

Colored women, their heads wrapped in great bandanna handkerchiefs, were selling fruits or refreshing liquids.
The whole was exhilarating to the last degree, and all the youth and imagination in Robert responded.

Dangers befell him, but delights offered themselves also, and he took both as they came.

Several preliminary races, improvised the day before, were run, and they served to keep the crowd amused, while they waited for the great match.
Robert and Tayoga then moved to advanced seats near the Governor, where Willet was already placed, in order that they might fulfill their honorable functions as judges, and the people began to stir with a great breath of expectation.

They were packed in a close group for a long distance, and Robert's eye roved over them, noting that their faces, ruddy or brown, were those of an open air race, like the English.