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Their prices had suffered the rise which is an inevitable result of American occupation, and were quite beyond our means. I succeeded afterwards in getting some Romblon mats through a Filipino friend for about one-fifth the price asked that day. Our stay at Romblon was not lengthy. We got out some time in the late afternoon, and proceeded on our way.
Tayabas, Romblon, Masbate, Iloilo, Antique, Capiz, Cebú, Bohol, Occidental Negros, Oriental Negros, Leyte, Albay, Ambos, Camarines, Sorsogon, Marinduque, Batangas, Surigao, and Misamis. Obviously a misprint, perhaps, for "perusal of." Blount, p. 380. For further details see pp. 746; 753. A native surf boat. Chap. Chap. Chap. Chap. Chap. Chap. Chap. Chap. Chap.
Busuanga, Culion, Tawi Tawi, Tablas, Romblon and Sibuyan. I use the word "Insurgents" as a proper noun, to designate the Filipinos who took up arms against the United States, hence capitalize it, and the adjective derived from it. General Aguinaldo. Beginning with the letters "P.I.R." See pp. 53, 55, 68.
I Am Appointed to a School at Capiz, on Panay Island We Anchor at the Lovely Harbor of Romblon The Beauty of the Night Trip to Iloilo We Halt There for a Few Days Examples Showing That the Philippines Are a "Mañana" Country Kindness of Some Nurses to the Teachers An Uncomfortable Journey from Iloilo to Charming Capiz.
On December 27 Antonio Luna wrote that all the provinces of Luzón, Mindoro, Marinduque, Masbate, and Ticao, Romblón, part of Panay, the Batanes, and Babuyanes Islands were under the jurisdiction of the insurgent government. By October 7, 1898, 14 of the 36 provinces and districts into which Luzón had been divided by the Spanish government had civil governors.
It has a harbor for vessels of ordinary draft, and highroads to Iloilo, Antique, and the District of Concepcion. There is a steamer kept by the state, stopping at the harbor every 28 days and keeping up communication with Manila, Romblon, Iloilo, and Cebu. The Province of Iloilo is to the southeast of the Province of Capiz and west of Antique.
They have dammed a mountain stream, so that the town is bountifully supplied with pure cold water, and with its clean streets and whitewashed buildings, it is a most attractive place. The inhabitants of Romblon were eager to sell us mats, or petates, the making of which is a special industry there.
It is bounded on the north by the Tayabas Sea, on the south by the Visayas Sea, on the east by the Sea of Masbate, and on the west by the Sea of Mindoro. The area is 813 square miles, and the population 38,633, distributed among 13 barrios and 3 rancherias of infieles. The capital is Romblon, with a population of 6,764.
The harbor at Romblon resembles a lake guarded by mountains which are covered with cocoanut trees clear to their summits. At one end the end toward the entrance, which no unfamiliar eye can detect a great plateau mountain called Tablas stretches across the view in lengthened bulk like the sky-line of some submarine upheaval.
In the Spanish days its forests furnished a safe refuge for evildoers who were from time to time driven out of Cavite and Batangas. A large proportion of its Filipino inhabitants were criminals who not infrequently organized regular piratical expeditions and raided towns in Masbate, Romblon and Palawan.
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