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Updated: May 21, 2025
Truly it was a pity to see the good deeds of the Balanguinguy expedition burlesqued by these ridiculous pageants. The lesson then taught the Sooloo chiefs did not, however, linger long in their memories; for their old habits of piracy, and kidnapping people for slaves, were resumed almost so soon as the Spaniards returned to Manilla.
At daybreak, on the 16th February, the troops were disembarked before Balanguinguy under cover of a fire from the ships, and after a little resistance from the Sooloo men who were excessively frightened by the appearance of the steamers, whose facility of movement they were quite unprepared for the fort, consisting of bamboo, was taken by escalade after a brave resistance.
Accordingly, having secretly fitted out an expedition from Manilla on the 13th February, 1848, the steamer on board of which the Governor himself was, anchored between the islands of Parol and Balanguinguy.
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