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STRANGE PEOPLE FROM OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.

FAMILIES OF COSTA RICANS, SANDWICH ISLANDERS AND FILIPINOS.

We have delayed the publication of this historical narrative until the last possible
moment, in hopes--which as we go to press we are gratified to be able to announce have
been fully realized-- that our special agent sent to Porto Rico and the Sandwich and the
Philippine Islands would be able to secure the finest representatives of the strange and in-
teresting aborginals of the West Indies and the intermediate and remote Pacific isles, now
grouped by the fate of war, the hand of profress and the conquering march of civilization
under Old Glory's protecting folds.

These insular and oceanic chiefs and warriors with their dark-eyed wives and wildly
cunning children, uniquely and fascinatingly complete the ethnological scope of the Congress
of Rough Riders of the World, which thus adds the last and greatest of living novelties
of the nation; the most stirring and romantic episodes in whose history it alone perpetuates,
in both personality and heroic action. In semi-civilized and barbaric dress, ornaments and
arms, these roamers of tropical jungles and surf-beaten volcanic shores will faithfully illus-
trate the martial, heathen and home peculiarities of their lives of intermingled feud, pastimes
and superstitions; introducing extraordinary feats of strength and skill with primitive
weapons, singular and sinuous dances, supple gymnastics, pagan cermonies and peculiar
sports, such as comparatively but few Christian eyes have ever seen.

Paradoxical, too, as it would naturally appear in connection with people born and
raised under such insular conditions, there will be found among them horsemen fully merit-
ing the high compliment of a place in COLONEL CODY'S CONGRESS of Rough Riders of the
World; equestrian full of nerve and dash and sure of seat, even if their accoutrements seem
outlandish and their methods surprisingly grotesque to continental riders and audiences.
Elsewhere they will receive and everywhere certainly secure, the wider recognition their
fine physical characteristics and novel accomplishments so well deserve. Meantime. COL.
CODY begs now to, for the first time, cordially introduce them to his and their future fellow-
countrymen.