“America will see you have your rights. Arise,” the admiral said, flipping a speck from his coat as he spoke. The insurgent leader reverently kissed the hand of the admiral, and, crying, “You will be hailed as the great emancipator,” signaled to his attendants, and prepared to leave the flagship. Under Rainey’s guns the company made its way to shore, not far from the old moat outside the city’s walls, now overgrown with grasses and vegetation, which served for draining the outlying country.
[1] Eso fue en los dias antiguos—That was in the old days. [↑]
[2] Por Dios Donde se hallaria otro pas que has sufrido tanto—For heaven’s sake, there is not another country found that has suffered so much.
For evidence as to the condition of the islands see Senate Document No. 190 of the 56th Congress, sworn testimony of Ambrosia Flores, Señor Constantine, Jose Tempto, Don Jose C. Mijares, Pedro Surano Laktaw, Jose Roderigues Infante and others. [↑]
III.
WON BY A WOMAN.
As General Saguanaldo and his men drew to shore, a small English woman approached him from a clump of bamboos that grew near the shore, hiding the new city from sight.
“What do you here, Madam Rizal?” asked Saguanaldo, bowing low. “You always bear important news.”