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Updated: May 15, 2025
Magellan, Legaspi, Carriedo, Rizal and McKinley, heroes of the free Philippines, belonged to different times and were of different types, but their work combined to make possible the growing democracy of to-day. The diversity of nationalities among these heroes is an added advantage, for it recalls that mingling of blood which has developed the Filipinos into a strong people.
Some of the white inhabitants have nevertheless been conspicuous for virtue. Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, for example, the first ruler of the islands, was so good that for years after his death his body, now in the St. Augustine Monastery, Manila, underwent no decay or change, but was like that of a man in sleep.
And therefore I declare that I will do this, as I have said refusing at the same time to admit his allegations, and basing myself upon those which I have made on my own part, which are true and certain. Given in this settlement and camp on the twenty-eighth day of October in the year one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight. Miguel Lopez de Legaspi.
"Pearlers he went after first, and then he got bolder and went after sailing-ships; and now they say he went after steamers and got the Legaspi, and, Mr. Trenholm, I believe he's aboard here now." "But who " We heard heavy blows struck against a bulkhead, and the shriek of a door as it was torn from its hinges. "They are breaking into the storeshold," explained Riggs.
I'll have a soda bath right away. I've got the prickly heat so bad I feel like a human pincushion!" "Yes, sir," said Wilkins. "Be game, Dad! You always told me you liked the tropics." "So I do at home in the winter time. I believe you knew we'd miss that boat, Marge. I'm wise! You want to see where Magellan landed and where Legaspi gasped." "I can't say you're a born tourist," said his daughter.
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