[250] “On July 28, 1898, the head of the province of Pampanga wrote that the punishment of beating people in the plaza and tying them up so that they would be exposed to the full rays of the sun should be stopped.  He complained that these methods had been carried so far that even people of good social position had been so punished.  It was especially undesirable to employ such punishments, as the people of other nations weeing them would not believe that the reign of liberty, equality, and fraternity had begun in the Philippines.”—­P.I.R., 196.3.

[251] Taylor, 47 AJ.

[252] P.I.R., 944.

[253] “I have the honour to inform you that I have been in this town since yesterday afternoon issuing, in a proclamation, conciliatory orders to the populace that the people comprised in the uprising must present themselves and express aversion and repudiation of it, promising them consideration and pardon as long as they lay aside arms.  In compliance with and following the earlier published proclamation, they presented two guns and innumerable bolos.  I hope soon for tranquillity among the people there through these efforts.  I ask dispense with assembly of the Junta. Camilin, November 30, 1898.”—­P.I.R., 849.

[254] P.I.R., 849.

[255] Ibid.

[256] P.I.R. 849.

[257] Ibid.

[258] Ibid.

[259] Gregorio Aglipay, an Ilocano Catholic priest who became an active Insurgent leader.  Later he abandoned the Catholic faith and set up a new church which gained many adherents in the Philippines.

[260] P.I.R., 849.

[261] Ibid.

[262] Ibid.

[263] P.I.R., 1231. 2.

[264] Taylor, 62 AJ.

[265] P.I.R., 77.

[266] P.I.R., 47.7.

[267] Ibid., 951.3.

[268] Blount, p. 109.

[269] P.I.R., 1006.

[270] P.I.R., 870. 4.

[271] Blount, p. 113.

[272] Ibid., p. 111

[273] At Carig, Isabela.

[274] Taylor, 43 AJ.

[275] See p. 731.

[276] The parsonage, or residence of the priest.

[277] Insurgent officers.

[278] Their on commander so reported.  See p. 202.

[279] Shortly afterward “elected” governor.

[280] This form of torture is commonly referred to in the Philippines as the “water cure.”

[281] Major Delfin commanded the expedition which took Nueva Vizcaya.

[282] P.I.R., 246. 3.

[283] Dimas Guzman.

[284] Blount, p. 112.

[285] Blount, p. 114.

[286] Blount, p. 113

[287] Blount, p. 114.

[288] A distance of 120 miles.

[289] “The former Spanish Governor of the Province was of course a prisoner in Villa’s custody.  Villa had the ex-Governor brought in, for the travellers to see him, and remarked, in his presence to them, ’This is the man who robbed this province of twenty-five thousand dollars during the last year of his office.’”—­Blount, p. 115.