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Updated: May 5, 2025
On the second of August, Licentiate Don Rafael Tome, a student in San José, died. On the twenty-seventh, the sloop for Marianas sailed from Cavite; and Fathers Diego de Zarzosa and Jacinto Garcia, and Brother Melchor de los Reyes, embarked in it. On the twenty-sixth, our mail reached Manila.
To the arsenal of Cavite there is a daily post, excepting on Sundays; and to the islands of Visayas, the Marianas, and Batanes, the correspondence is forwarded by the first ships bound for any of those places, as they are obliged to give notice to the postmaster two days before starting for them.
Article II. Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the island of Guam, in the Marianas or Ladrones.
There only remains to be described in the Pacific, that curved line of fringed islands, of which the MARIANAS form the main part. FAIS, which lies in the prolonged line of the Marianas, is the only island in this part of the sea which is fringed; it is ninety feet high, and consists entirely of madreporitic rock.
But how cold and gaudy, in spite of individual beauties, is that poem by the side of either of the Marianas, and especially of the one in which the scenery is drawn, simply and faithfully, from those counties which the world considers the quintessence of the prosaic the English fens. Throughout all these exquisite lines occurs but one instance of what the vulgar call "poetic diction."
During those six months the Grass ravenously snatched morsel after morsel. New Zealand's South Island, New Caledonia, the Solomons and the Marianas were gobbled at the same moment. It gorged on New Guinea and searched out the minor islands of the East Indies as a cat searches for baby fieldmice in a nest her paw has discovered.
On the twelfth they hanged five Sangleys, who were found guilty in the mutiny. On the fourteenth news came that all the people who were in the lancha that lost its course in Marianas had safely reached port in Cagayan. On the eighteenth the courier arrived with the mail. On the nineteenth the auditor Don Diego Calderon died.
Article II. Spain cedes to the United States the Island of Porto Rico and the other islands now under her sovereignty in the West Indies and the Isle of Guam in the archipelago of the Marianas or Ladrones.
After our marriage she was to stay with her sister, or with my friends, the Otano's, on Guam, whilst I made my way to my friend at Amboyna, and got him to provide me with such an amount of trade goods that when I returned to Guam I should be in a position to at once begin trading operations either in the Marianas, with Guam for my headquarters, or else choose some suitable place in the Caroline Archipelago.
To break a taboo was not only to incur the wrath of the priests, but of the gods to whom the gift was offered, and who would surely reward the blasphemer for his sin by illness, accident, loss, or death. As soon as the Spaniards had occupied the Ladrones afterward named the Marianas, in honor of Maria Anna, queen of Philip IV. of Spain they proceeded to slaughter the natives.
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