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Until further orders you will take over the duties of acting first sergeant, by Captain Cortland's direction." "Very good, sir." "This is Tuesday, Sergeant. Thursday, at eleven in the morning, the Thirty-fourth is due before the office of the captain of the port, to take boats for the transport 'Warren. This regiment sails for Iloilo and other ports." "May I repeat that to the men, sir?"
Then just as Miss Ray was reported sitting up and soon to be able to "see her friends," with what smiling significance did Mrs. Brent so assure him! what should Stuyvesant's general do but select Stuyvesant himself to go on a voyage of discovery to Iloilo and beyond. The commanding general wanted a competent officer who spoke Spanish to make a certain line of investigation. He consulted Vinton.
When Governor Taft and other members of the peace commission were expected at Iloilo and Jaro, there were great preparations for several weeks before hand. The guests came to Jaro for a morning reception at the home of one of the wealthy citizens.
On April 26, 1899, the governor of Iloilo published the following remarkable news items among others: "Pavia, April 6th, 1899. "The Liberating Army of the Visayan Islands to the Local Presidents of the towns shown on the margin: "Towns: Santa Barbara, Pavia, Leganes, Zárraga, Dumangas, Batac Viejo, Tuilao, Batac Nuevo, Banate.
January 1 came the serious news from Manila that the American forces before Iloilo, under the command of General Miller, were confronted by 6,000 armed Filipinos, who refused them permission to land. The Spanish had yielded Iloilo to the insurgents for the purpose of troubling the Americans.
There are technical training schools in Manila, Iloilo, and Bacoler. "In these schools are taught cabinet work, silversmithing, lock-smithing, lithography, carpentering, machinery, decorating, sculpture, political economy, commercial law, book-keeping, and commercial correspondence, French and English; and there is one superior college for painting, sculpture and engraving.
I understood that on the strength of this cable General Otis intended to allow the United States Consul at Manila to grant these vessels an American Register and then allow them to clear for the other islands. I do not know what the arrangement, if any was made, in regard to the payment of export duties at Iloilo.
Nor is it likely that there will be many reports of cholera outbreaks such as an ex-army nurse described to me a few days ago: "When I was in Iloilo in 1902," she said, "it was impossible to dig graves for the poor natives as fast as they died.
In 1831 a custom-house was established at Zamboanga, on the south-west point of Mindanao; and in 1855 Sual, in the Gulf of Lingayen, one of the safest harbors on the west coast of Luzon, and Iloilo in Panay, were thrown open; and in 1863 Cebu, on the island of the same name, for the direct communication with foreign countries.
The first thing I did on arriving at Iloilo was to call mess "board" and go to bed instead of "turning in." In time of special danger, the various commanders were very kind in providing guards mostly, however, to protect Government property. I felt no great uneasiness about personal safety, though I always "slept with one eye open."
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