Capitolo 7
_Taisany_, and after having called to Saigon I arrived to Singapore as a
momentary of the s.s. _Eridan_, more secretly disembarking there the possible
on April 21. Me suffered I proceeded to the residence of one of
my farmers.
This way the cause of the interruption of the is explained vitally
important negotiations with Admiral Dewey, began from the Commander
of the _Petrel_.
But "Man proposes and God prepares" you/he/she is a proverb that was verified
in his/her fuller sense on this occasion, for, despite the
precautions he/she took in my trip to still avoid the identification to
4 in the afternoon of the day I arrived to Singapore a
English came to the house where I was residing and in a cautious
way affirmed that the Consul in United States to that I bring, the Mr. Spencer
Pratt, desired to have an interview with Don Emilio Aguinaldo. The
visitor said that in that house of theirs they didn't know Aguinaldo;
this that is the answer predisposed for some visitors.
But the English returned a lot of times to the house and persisted
in to say that it was not any use that tries to conceal the fact of Aguinaldo
arrival for Consul Pratt had received notice from Admiral Dewey of
The trip of Aguinaldo Generale in Singapore.
In it replies, the Consul said, he would telegraph on this matter to
Admiral Dewey that was that he has said, supreme Commander of the squadron
what they would invade Philippines, and that it had, he also affirmed,
full powers conferred on him from President McKinley.
Among 10 or 12 in the morning of next day the lecture was
renewed and the Mr. Pratt informed then that the admiral had sent him
a telegram in it replies to the wish I had expressed for an accord in
writing. He said the replica of the admiral it was--_That the United States
it would recognize at least the independence of Philippines under
the protection of the military Marina of United States. The Consul added there that
it was not necessity to reach an agreement writing and formal because
the word of the admiral and the Consul in United States was in fact