. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. SULi; 280 THE FAli EAST. they maintained their independence, and the Jesuits were driven from thecolony. At the time of the Bohol revolt another was ripe in Leyte, when thenatives rose in a vain attempt to throw off the Spanish joke. Uponthe capture of the native cliief, his head was decapitated and placed at theend of a long pole carried about the town in order to strike terror to. A NATIVE OF MALARON AND HIS FAMILY the hearts of the vanquishe
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. SULi; 280 THE FAli EAST. they maintained their independence, and the Jesuits were driven from thecolony. At the time of the Bohol revolt another was ripe in Leyte, when thenatives rose in a vain attempt to throw off the Spanish joke. Uponthe capture of the native cliief, his head was decapitated and placed at theend of a long pole carried about the town in order to strike terror to. A NATIVE OF MALARON AND HIS FAMILY the hearts of the vanquished rebels. Another was burned at the stake,by a people who professed to be Christian ! Seven years later an attempt was made in eastern Mindanao to escapeSpanish dominion, and three years of bush warfare were required to putdown the rebellion, during which four villages were burned and as manypriests put to death. In 1649 a series of riots opened, owing to a refusal on the part ofthe natives to cut the government timber without pay. These revolts arefilled with deeds too dark and inhuman to be , the savage cruelty THE rillLIPlINES. 281 of the natives always more than equalled by the barbarities of their Spanish opjDressors. A serious outbreak occurred in 1872, instigated by some friars in the hope of obtaining the banishment of some families with views too liberal to suit their fanatical ideas. Besides these, which are only a few specimens shorn of their awful indignities, the list might be continued, always with t
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