This book invite you to share in atmosphere of the social life of those first European traders, missionaries, and official representatives in this tropical paradise of that time long ago, paying early morning social calls and spending the afternoons picknicking in the country or promenading down broad thoroughfares in horse-drawn carriages. Enter into the lavish evening gatherings of rustling silks, stylish banquets and enchanting dinner dances, dressed in magnificent costumes of the finest thread; and for the Governor's ball, the latest fashions from Paris and London just arrived by ship..