At nightfall our collegians of San Joseph formed a procession remarkable enough to have appeared in Madrid.

At the head were three triumphal chariots.

In the first were the clarion-players; in the second the singers, singing motets and ballads; and in the third various musical instruments--harps, guitars, rebecks, etc.

Next came the standard of the immaculate conception, carried by Don Luis Faxardo, a student and a brother of the governor.

At his side came Don Geronimo de Silva, master-of-camp and general of the artillery, and Don Fernando Centene, general of the galleys.