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farmers. I assured that I would have put before the my maximum endeavours
to crush and to extinguish the power of Spain in the islands and me I added
what if in possession of a battery of a dozen of field-guns I am able
does what the Spaniards surrender to Manila in approximately two weeks.
It said the Consul he would help me to arrive above to Philippines the
consignment of arm in respect of which I had done the preliminary one
setups in Hongkong, and he added that he would immediately have telegraphed
to Admiral Dewey that informs him about this promise in order that the
It is probable that admiral gives that assistance placed in its power to do the
the consignment in question a success.
On April 25 the last lecture was contained in the United States
Consoled to Singapore. I was invited by the Consul to satisfy him/it on
this occasion and as soon as we met him it said him you/he/she had received a telegram
from the admiral that it asks for him/it to ask to me to proceed to Hongkong from
before steamboat to connect the admiral in that it was then with his/her squadron
The Bay of Mir; a Chinese harbour next to Hongkong. I responded to this
proposed in the affirmative, and it gave directions to mine _aide-de-camp_
immediately to get passages for companions and I, care being
taken that the tickets should bear the false names we had adopted
on the occasion of our trip from Hongkong in Singapore, it that it is
advisable that we should continue to travel _incognito_.
On April 26 I called on Consul Pratt to offer him/it goodbye in the eve
of my departure from Singapore from the steamboat _Malacca_. The Consul,
after having told me that when I became near the I bring of Hongkong I am able
is met by the throwing of the admiral and taken by the _Malacca_ to the
American squadron (a precaution against news of my movements to become
public ownership of what me extremely approved), then churches to me to name
him Representative of Philippines in the United States, there to
zealously defends official recognition of our Independence. My answer