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An effective campaign against it, inaugurated at this time, was never abandoned until it was completely eradicated in 1906, a noteworthy result to achieve in a country like the Philippines. On March 21, 1902, I was advised that two patients at San Juan de Dios hospital were developing symptoms of Asiatic cholera, and on the following day a positive laboratory diagnosis was made.
"Apes!" cried she, beslavering them with all manner of abuse, French, Spanish and English. "Monkeys, cease your chattering and list to Joanna. And mark my prisoners go aboard this very hour, yes. And to-day we sail for Nombre de Dios.
There is not one caballero here, but myself. And when the other young girl have tell to him how the caballero look, he say: 'The saints save us! I cannot more say. It ees Don Vincente, who haf gone dead. And he cross himself, and But look! Madre de Dios! Mees Cecily, you are ill you are affrighted. I am a gabbling fool! Help her, Don Ricardo; she is falling!"
But that poor insect, that remains there suspended between heaven and earth, shall I say hell, what am I to think of it?" The dragonfly was still there. She continued "En purgatorio, ah Dios, tu quedas en purgatorio," as if the fly had represented the unhappy young pirate's soul in limbo. Oh, let no one smile at the quaintness of the dying fancy of the poor heart crushed girl.
Cartagena, however, was up in arms already; so Drake put all his prisoners ashore unhurt and retired to reconsider his position, leaving Diego, a negro fugitive from Nombre de Dios, to muster the Maroons for a raid overland to Panama. Then Drake, who sank the Swan and burnt his prizes because he had only men enough for the Pascha and the pinnaces, disappeared into a new secret harbor.
Don Francisco de Zarate, commander of a Spanish ship scuttled by Drake off Guatalco, gives this description to the Spanish government of the Englishman's equipage: "The general of the Englishmen is the same who five years ago took Nombre de Dios, about thirty-five years old, short, with a ruddy beard, one of the greatest mariners there are on the sea, alike for his skill and power of command.
I say; I am sure that is not it. Say it, word for word, or I shall be angry I vow I shall." "Word for word!" What was I to do? "Word for word," reiterated Dona Inez. "Indeed, Señora, I don't know ... you would not forgive me." "It is, then, something dreadful?" "No, not exactly dreadful, but " "Dios! Dios! worlds of patience!" and she stamped her tiny foot; "will you go on?
"On the fourth day of this present month I arrived at the city of Nombre de Dios upon a mission the purpose of which was to secure the release of seventeen Englishmen who were last year made prisoners in the course of a treacherous and unjustifiable attack upon the fleet of Admiral Hawkins while, in pursuance of an agreement between himself and His Excellency Don Martin Enriquez, the Viceroy of Mexico, he was refitting his ships.
Valgame Dios! if he had been a Spaniard, he would not have submitted to it so patiently. But what surprised me most was, that after beating his servant, the master would sit down, and the next moment would begin conversing and laughing with him as if nothing had happened, and the giant also would laugh and converse with his master, for all the world as if he had not been beaten.
Sailing several days to the eastwards from thence with contrary winds, he arrived at a great cape or head-land, whence the coast trended to the southwards, and called this place Cabo de Garcias a Dios, or Cape thanks to God, because the east winds which had hitherto obstructed his voyage would now serve for navigating that part of the coast.
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