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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Call up J. O. Heyfuss & Co. and tell them to take their cargo of zinc ore in bulk for your schooner Mindoro and go to the devil with it!" "But, good gracious, boy, I have to get something for her homeward trip!" "In this case nothing is better than something. Do you know anything about zinc ore?" "Yes; as much as an Eskimo knows about the doctrine of transubstantiation." "I thought so.
Having said thus much, I shall proceed to such further details as are more immediately connected with the present chapter. The archbishopric of Manila comprehends the provinces of Tondo, Bulacan, Pampanga, Bataan, Cavite, Laguna de Bay, Zambales, Batangas, and the Island of Mindoro.
These thoughts were passing weakly through my mind, when suddenly I saw something which made me stand up, weak as I was. Far out across the Strait of Mindoro a streamer of black smoke showed against the sky. My eyes followed it to where a gray hull rested on the water. It was one of our gunboats bound from Ilo Ilo back to Manila.
When I explained the situation to them, however, and gave them time to digest it, both offered to take me out to luncheon. You can see for yourself they've chartered our Mazeppa at a fancy freight rate." Cappy licked his lips. "The Mindoro is sound, tight and seaworthy," he murmured. "She could carry wheat." "Come on in, Cappy. The water's fine!" "I'll do it!
Likewise this witness asked the Indians of the said village and another Indian a chief from Mindoro, who frequently went to the said village whether there had been more Sangleys. They answered that as many as six other Sangleys had lived there, in this said Indian village, for more than two months.
Harryman looked musingly after the boat of the Mindoro for a few minutes, and murmured: "He certainly has no fever which quinine will not cure." Then he got into his own boat, which also soon disappeared into the sultry summer night, while the dark water splashed and gurgled against the planks.
About three o'clock the strange ship was near enough for its flag that of Holland to be recognized. Signals were made asking her to bring to, whereupon an officer from the Mindoro was pulled over to her in a gig. Half an hour later he left the Rotterdam, and the latter turned and steamed away in the direction from which she had come.
If they won't pay all, strike 'em for half." He hung up without saying good-bye. "Well, that's out of the way," he declared with satisfaction. "Just closed for a cargo of zinc ore from Australia to San Francisco ex our schooner Mindoro. Matt Peasley's been hunting wild-eyed for a cargo for her scouring the market, Gus and nothing doing!
The alcaldes were said to influence the commanders of the cruisers, and the latter to overreach the alcaldes; but both usually made common cause. According to the Diario de Manila, March 14, 1866, piracy on the seas had diminished, but had not ceased. Paragua, Calamianes, Mindoro, Mindanao, and the Bisayas still suffer from it.
In order to make certain the commander of the Mindoro ordered a turn to starboard, whereupon it was discovered that the strange ship was an ocean-steamer of about three thousand tons, whose nationality could not be distinguished at that distance. Still it might be an auxiliary cruiser from the Japanese merchant service.
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