. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. 68 THE SULC ISLANDS. [chap. ment, from which we congratulated ourselves on ha\'ing escaped with whole skins. Our friend the Panglima we never saw again. In the war of succession in 1885 he was one of the first to fall. AYliile leading his men he received a spear-wound in the left eye, and thus Sulu. A NATIVE OF SULl'. was rid of one of the most unmitigated scoundrels that ever trod its soil. On
. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. 68 THE SULC ISLANDS. [chap. ment, from which we congratulated ourselves on ha\'ing escaped with whole skins. Our friend the Panglima we never saw again. In the war of succession in 1885 he was one of the first to fall. AYliile leading his men he received a spear-wound in the left eye, and thus Sulu. A NATIVE OF SULl'. was rid of one of the most unmitigated scoundrels that ever trod its soil. On rejoining the yacht at Jolo we found a Manila man on board who had escaped from the town. He spoke a few words only of Spanish, but complained of being cruelly treated by the Spaniards, and begged most piteously to be allowed to remain. It is a most difficult thing to judge of such cases. From our own observation, and from our constant intercourse with the Spanish officers,—whom we invariably found to be, as far as we could judge, gentlemen in the widest sense of the term,—we were inclined entirely to disbelieve his story. The fact, however, remains that the convicts, possibly weary of the monotony of the life or in dread of the fever and dysentery that carries off their comrades. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933. London : J. Murray
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