The inhabitants of the Philippines . that Spain, far from drawingany profit from Mindanao, has, on the contrary, expendedannually considerable sums, derived from the revenues ofLuzon and Visayas, in maintaining a squadron of gunboatsto police the seas, and keep down piracy, in building andgarrisoning forts to suppress the slave-trade, and in assistingthe missionaries to attract the heathen, by providing themwith seeds, implements of husbandry, and with clothing,also in giving them fire-arms and ammunition to protectthemselves from the Moros. Annuities were paid to friendly Moro dattos as rewar
The inhabitants of the Philippines . that Spain, far from drawingany profit from Mindanao, has, on the contrary, expendedannually considerable sums, derived from the revenues ofLuzon and Visayas, in maintaining a squadron of gunboatsto police the seas, and keep down piracy, in building andgarrisoning forts to suppress the slave-trade, and in assistingthe missionaries to attract the heathen, by providing themwith seeds, implements of husbandry, and with clothing,also in giving them fire-arms and ammunition to protectthemselves from the Moros. Annuities were paid to friendly Moro dattos as rewardsfor services rendered, or as compensation for the cession ofsome of their rights. The Moros have always been the great danger to thepeace of the island, as the Visayas have always been themainstay of Spanish authority. Had it not been for the war with America, the Moroswould have been, by this time, completely subdued. Even as it was, half the island was practically free from Seal of the Mora flower Lake IjAnao accarJina lo Jvido. 3AY iTo Jaci p. 377. MINDANAO: DANGERS 377 danger from them. If you draw a line on the map fromCagayan de Misamis to the head of the Bay of Sarangani,it will roughly divide the island into halves. The Moroswho lived to the eastward of this line were pacific, andsome thousands of them had been baptized, and had givenup polygamy and slave-trading. Had they risen in arms—which was not at all likely—they could have been put down by the Visayas militiaunder the local authorities. To the west of this line, until quite lately, the Spanishgarrisons dotted along the banks of the Rio Grande fromPolloc and Cotta-bato to Piquit and Pinto, dominated theMoro dattos of that region, and nearly joined hands withthe forts and garrisons on the rivers running into the Bayof Macajalar. The only remaining seat of the Moro power was thecountry around Lake Lanao, where the dattos had formedthe Illana confederation to resist the advances of theChristians. This lake has
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