[15] Page 37. [↑]

[16] Page 38. [↑]

[17] “The Outlook for the Philippines,” Chap. X. [↑]

[18] Flat-horned buffalo, the beast of burden in the Philippines. [↑]

[19] Page 49. [↑]

[20] Page 56. [↑]

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CHAPTER XI

WHAT MANNER OF MAN

More than the persecutions launched against his family disturbed Rizal in the news he was receiving now from Manila. The fire of discontent was rising among the people of the Philippines; the letters of his friends foreshadowed an explosion. Not revolution by peaceful means was at hand but another civil war. He determined to go to Madrid that he might talk with the Filipinos there about these storm-signals and at the same time lodge with the Spanish Government a formal protest against the eviction of the family from its Calamba property.