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Updated: June 1, 2025
Simoun rapped on the window and a man's face appeared. "Ah, sir!" he exclaimed, and immediately came outside. "Is the powder here?" asked Simoun. "In sacks. I'm waiting for the shells." "And the bombs?" "Are all ready." "All right, then. This very night you must go and inform the lieutenant and the corporal. Then keep on your way, and in Lamayan you will find a man in a banka.
Preiss, the manager of the Czech bank, Zivnostenska Banka, which has its branches in Galicia, Rumania, Serbia and elsewhere, and four of his colleagues were imprisoned, because the Czechs would not subscribe to Austrian war loans and Dr. Preiss had done nothing to induce them to do so.
From the bow of our ship there stretched out on one hand and on the other, far beyond the horizon, Borneo, Celebes, Banka and Billiton; the Little Sunda Islands Bali and Lombok, Simbawa, Flores and Timor; the China Sea, the Philippines, and farther and greater than them all, the mainland of Asia. While we were still intent on Java Head there came once more the cry, "Sail ho!"
At Malapad-na-bato the carbineer was sleepy and, seeing that the banka was empty and offered no booty which he might seize, according to the traditional usage of his corps and the custom of that post, he easily let them pass on. Nor did the civil-guard at Pasig suspect anything, so they were not molested.
Lovely lanes of palm and banana, brightened by trees of crimson poinsettia, wind upward to the hills, and a cluster of green islets gems the blue waters; the scarlet-stemmed Banka palm offering a glowing contrast to the sweeping emerald of the feathery fronds.
As the sun was sinking below the horizon Ibarra stepped into Elias's banka at the shore of the lake. The youth looked out of humor. "Pardon me, sir," said Elias sadly, on seeing him, "that I have been so bold as to make this appointment. I wanted to talk to you freely and so I chose this means, for here we won't have any listeners. We can return within an hour."
'Let me in, I pray you, dear mother, cried he. And as he entered he added: 'Here is a letter from your sister and can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun? 'Yes, I can, answered the old woman. 'She lives in the castle on the Banka. Her father lost a battle only a few days ago because you had stolen his sword from him, and the Sister of the Sun herself is almost dead of grief.
He's pushing against them even though he is all rolled up. Wait, he's a big one, his body is almost a foot or more across." "What shall we do?" was the question. "Catch him!" prompted some one. "Heavens! And who'll catch him?" No one offered to go down into the trap, for the water was deep. "We ought to tie him to our banka and drag him along in triumph," suggested Sinang.
As for the palms, I had no idea that so many varieties existed until I visited Buitenzorg emperor palms, Areca palms, Banka palms, cocoanut palms, fan palms, cabbage palms, sago palms, date palms, feather palms, travelers' palms, oil palms, Chuson palms, climbing palms over a hundred feet long palms without end, Amen.
"We'll see each other on Christmas Eve at the tomb of your grandfather. Save yourself." "And you?" "God has carried me safely through greater perils." As Elias took off his camisa a bullet tore it from his hands and two loud reports were heard. Calmly he clasped the hand of Ibarra, who was still stretched out in the bottom of the banka.
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