. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. ertain mandarin, named Koxinga, drivenfrom his native land by the invaders, wrested the island of Formosa fromthe Dutch, and established himself as emperor of the island. He hada hundred thousand armed warriors behind liini. and having routed the THE PIIILIPlIXES. 249 Dutch without trouble, he sent an embassy to Manila, demanding tributefrom the colony of Spain. The Chinese ambassador was an Italian Dominican friar named Vit-torio Riccio, who, if the re
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. ertain mandarin, named Koxinga, drivenfrom his native land by the invaders, wrested the island of Formosa fromthe Dutch, and established himself as emperor of the island. He hada hundred thousand armed warriors behind liini. and having routed the THE PIIILIPlIXES. 249 Dutch without trouble, he sent an embassy to Manila, demanding tributefrom the colony of Spain. The Chinese ambassador was an Italian Dominican friar named Vit-torio Riccio, who, if the representative of ah adventurer, was receivedwith marked respect by the Spaniards on account of his religious affilia-tion. There was diplomacy, too, in showing open honours to this Chinesemandarin. While they dallied with lam, such preparations were made toavert the impending ruin uf the colony as could be. The governor issuedorders to destroy several forts on the other islands, while tlie work offortifying Manila was carried forward as secretly and rapidly as thousand soldiers, besides a small body of cavalry, were put in. THK .NATIVK MAUKKT AT .MANILA. readiness; the contents of the public treasury were removed to saferquarters; the Chinese in the town were put under strict surveillance, andtwo masters of junks were seized. It was the plan of the Spanish to mas-sacre every Chinese on the islands, liut first they wished to provoke theirintended victims to some act which should giAe them a plausible excusefor doing so. In their alarm, the Chinese, who numbered over ten thousand, attemptedall sorts of devices to escape. Those who felt like joining their country-men in the intended attack on the Spaniards sought to reach them byswimming out to their canoes lying off the coast, the majority of thesemeeting death in the water. Only a few reached the hosts of the daringKoxinga. Some fled to tlie mountains, but fully nine thousand waitedanxiously the development of the
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