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Taylor thus summarizes the conditions which ultimately arose: "The Insurgent soldiers lived in their own land as they would have lived in a conquered country. They were quartered on the towns and the towns had to feed them whether they would or not. "Peace there was where Aguinaldo's soldiers had not penetrated, but there does not seem to have been progress.
He refers to our utter failure to understand "what a wonderfully complete 'going concern' Aguinaldo's government had become throughout the Philippine Archipelago before the Treaty of Paris was signed."
The War in the Philippines.% While the treaty with Spain was under consideration, the city of Manila was held by General Otis, Merritt's successor; but native troops, under Aguinaldo, were in control of most of Luzon and several other islands. On the night of February 4, 1899, the long-threatened conflict between them was begun by Aguinaldo's unsuccessful attack on the Americans at Manila.
"In October and November, 1898, Paymaster W. B. Wilcox, U.S.N., and Naval Cadet L. R. Sargent, U.S.N., travelled through Northern Luzon from which they returned with a favourable impression of the government which had been set up by Aguinaldo's agents.
Arrival at Florida Blanca The Schoolmaster's House Kept by Pupils in their Master's Absence Everyday Scenes at Florida Blanca A Filipino Sunday A Visit to the Cock-fighting Ring A Strange Church Clock and Chimes Pugnacious Scene at a Funeral Strained Relations between Filipinos and Americans My New Servant Victoriano, an Ex-officer of Aguinaldo's Army, and his Six Wives I Start for the Mountains "Free and easy" Progress of my Buffalo-cart Ascent into the Mountains Arrival at my Future Abode Description of my Hut and Food Our Botanical Surroundings Meetings with the Negritos Friendliness and Mirth of the Little People Negritos may properly be called Pigmies Their Appearance, Dress, Ornaments and Weapons An Ingenious Pig-arrow Extraordinary Fish-traps Their Rude Barbaric Chanting Their Chief and His House Cure of a Malarial Fever and its Embarrassing Results "Agriculture in the Tropics" A Hairbreadth Escape Filipino Blowpipes A Pigmy Hawk in Pigmyland The Elusive Pitta Names of the Birds A Moth as Scent Producer Flying Lizards and other kinds A "Tigre" Scare by Night Enforced Seclusion of Female Hornbill.
The problem of how to deal with Aguinaldo's Government and troops will necessarily be accompanied with embarrassment and difficulty, and will require much tact and skill in its solution.
The "insurgent" guard, clad in captured uniforms, consisted for the most part of Macabebes, hereditary enemies of the Tagalogs for the Americans had now learned the Roman trick of using one people against another. The ruse succeeded perfectly. The guard and its supposed prisoners were joyfully received by Aguinaldo, but the tables were quickly turned and Aguinaldo's capture was promptly effected.
"My brother is the only man who knows where the Spanish gold was hidden when our war was ended I mean, the gold that came up with guns and ammunition. Aguinaldo is looking for the hiding place. My father, a high officer in the Spanish Army, died of the fever last winter. We were stolen from our house in Manila by Aguinaldo's men, and have been going from place to place ever since.
The entrance of food supplies was confined to the northern line, for then it would not be known to the Americans who, after July 30, occupied the entrenchments in front of San Antonio Abad. It was not expedient for them to see too much of Aguinaldo's methods." Taylor, 14 AJ. Senate Document 331, p. 2976, 1902. Ibid. Ibid., 102-10. Now a major-general. Ibid. Ibid.
He acted as gun-bearer, cook, laundry maid, housemaid, interpreter and guide. Later on he told me that he had been an officer in the insurgent Aguinaldo's army, and that he had been imprisoned by the Spaniards for four years on the island of Mindanao for belonging to a revolutionary society.
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