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Her clumsy Spanish slippers covered feet small as a child's, and her manner, while shy, was quite calm and dignified. Of course the party was taken around the ship, and all expressed a polite interest and appreciation of what was shown them, although there was far less enthusiasm than when the more volatile Tagalog or Visayan had seen the wonders of electricity for the first time.
"Kabatúan, March 16, 1899. "Temporary President. "General Secretary." "Martin Delgado y Bermejo, lieutenant general and general in chief of the republican army of the Visayan Islands. "General Headquarters of Santa Barbara, "April 20, 1899.
Blount's first mention of it is peculiar. In connection with the words "the other six islands that really matter," in the passage above cited on page 116 of his book, he has inserted a foot-note reading as follows: "The six main Visayan Islands. Mohammedan Mindanao is always dealt with in this book as a separate and distinct problem."
Three days later this proclamation, which was rather dangerously like a declaration of war, was reissued with a significant change in the last one of the passages quoted, the words "attempt to take forcible possession of any part of the territory submitted to its jurisdiction" being substituted for the words "attempt to take forcible possession of the Visayan Islands."
By 1880 the number had been increased to three, two for Luzón and one for the Visayan Islands. The guardia civil was organized upon a military basis, its officers and soldiers being drawn from the regular army of Spain by selection or upon recommendation. Detachments were distributed throughout the provinces and were commanded according to their size by commissioned or non-commissioned officers.
Amber is frequently gathered in considerable lumps in the vicinity of Samar and the other Visayan Islands as well as mother-of-pearl, tortoise-shell, and red and black coral, of the latter kind of which, I have seen shafts as thick as my finger and six or eight feet long.
At every corner came new recruits to swell the ranks of our followers. "Merry Christmas," cried everyone in Spanish or Visayan, and "Merry Christmas" we responded, though June skies bending down toward tropical palms and soft winds just rustling the tops of tall bamboos, so that they cast flickering fern-like shadows over thatched nipa roofs, but ill suggested Christmas to an American mind.
Much of what she told me I shall not write down here; but enough for an understanding of the strange things which followed. "My home was once in ," she said, naming one of the most important towns in the island. "My father was a Spanish officer, rich, proud and powerful. My mother was a Visayan woman.
The soldiers seize him and hustle him toward a lantern to examine him. It is Lucas, but the soldiers seem to be in doubt, questioning each other with their eyes. "The alferez didn't say that he had a scar," whispered the Visayan. "Where you going?" "To order a mass for tomorrow." "Haven't you seen Elias?" "I don't know him, sir," answered Lucas. "I didn't ask you if you know him, you fool!
"I was in that town, for a similar purpose, with Governor Taft in 1901, after a bloody war which almost certainly would not have occurred had the Paris Peace Commission known the conditions then existing, just like this, all over Luzon and the Visayan Islands." Blount, p. 116.
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