This was a colony of a monarchy, and we would push forward the claims of Poqua-dilla the First.
We called her "The First," because, although she may have had a good many ancestors of her name in Africa, she certainly started the line in the Bahamas.
Goliah proved himself a steady-going talker.

He seemed pleased to have us call on him, and told us the whole story of the capture of himself and the rest of the Africans.

We had heard pretty much all of it before, but, of course, we had to politely listen to it again.
When he finished, we asked a few questions about the queen, and finding that Goliah admitted her claims to royal blood, we told him what we proposed to do, and boldly asked him to take the position of prime minister in the African community.
At first, he did not understand, and we had to go over the thing two or three times before he saw into it.

Then, it was evident that he could not see what business this was of ours, and we had to explain our motives, which was some trouble, because we had not quite straightened them out in our own minds.
Then he wanted to know which was the head person, a queen or a prime minister.

We set forth the strict truth to him in this matter.