[1] The six main Visayan Islands. Mohammedan Mindanao is always dealt with in this book as a separate and distinct problem.
[2] Senate Document 196, 56th Cong., 1st. Sess., p. 14.
[3] Here the author’s commanding officer, Major Batson, was shot a year and a day later while directing with his usual clear-headed intrepidity the fire of a part of his battalion to protect the crossing of the rest of it over the Aringay River, we being at the time in hot pursuit of Aguinaldo, whose rear-guard made a stand in the trenches on the other side of the river.
Chapter VII
The Treaty of Paris
No man can serve two masters.
Matthew vi., 24.
Confine the Empire within those limits which nature seems to have fixed as its natural bulwarks and boundaries.
Augustus Cæsar’s Will.