1 Philippine Census, vol. ii., p. 123.
2 Ib., vol. i., p. 58.
3 Says Brigadier-General Wm. H. Carter, in his annual report for 1905 covering the Samar outbreak of 1904–5: “Whatever may have been the original cause of the outbreak, it was soon lost sight of when success had drawn a large proportion of the people away from their homes and fields. Except in the largest towns it became simply a question of joining the pulajans or being harried by them. In the absence of proper protection thousands joined in the movement.” See War Department Report, 1905, vol. iii., p. 286.
4 Bulao was situated on a high bluff on the left bank of a river called the Bangahon. The Pulajans entered before daybreak, on July 21st. There was a stiff fight at Bulao, also, between our native troops and the enemy on August 21st, but Calderon seems to have left it out of his list. See Gen. Wm. H. Carter’s Report for 1905, War Department Report, 1905, vol. iii., p. 290. Capt. Cary Crockett, a descendant of David Crockett, commanded the constabulary, and though badly wounded himself, as were also half his command, he defeated a force of Pulajans greatly outnumbering his, killing forty-one of them. Report U. S. Philippine Commission, 1905, pt. 3, p. 90, Report of Col. Wallace C. Taylor. I think he was awarded a medal of honor for his work. He certainly earned it.
“Pulajan” means “red breeches,” the uniform of the mountain clans, worn whenever they set out to give trouble.
5 Of March 23d of the previous year, already described in a previous chapter, where Luther S. Kelly—“Yellowstone” Kelly—saved the American women by gathering them and a few men in the Government House and bluffing the brigands off.
6 The “Conant” peso, named for the noted fiscal expert, Mr. Conant. It was worth fifty cents American money.
7 The Fourteenth U. S. Infantry was stationed in garrison just outside the town proper of Calbayog, which was three hours by steam launch from the provincial capital, Catbalogan. But the depredations might have been carried to just outside the line of the military reservation, and the military folk would not have dared to make a move save on request first made by the Civil Government at Manila. In other words the above three villages were burned under their noses.
8 One seems to get the stoicism better in the original, somehow, so I give the body of the original Spanish, as it came to me:
En el distrito de Motiong, municipio de Wright, provincia de Samar, Islas Filipinas, a primero de septiembre de mil novecientos quatro. Ante mi Peregrin Albano, consejal del mismo, y presente el Presidente de Sanidad Municipal, D. Tomas San Pablo y principales del mismo se procedio al enterramiento de los cadaveres victimas de los Pulajans en el sementerio de esta localidad el oficial de voluntarios, Rafael Rosales y otros voluntarios, Gualberto Gabane, Juan Pacle, Dionisio Daisno, Pedro Damtanan, Carmelo Lagbo, y particulares Eustaquia Sapiten y Apolinaria N: con otro tanto Pulajan desconocido; en conformidad de la carta oficial de la presidencia municipal de Wright de fecha de hoy registrada con el numero 136.
Del citado enteramiento ha sido asistido por el Reverendo Padre Marcos Gomez y acompanado por toda la fuerza voluntaria del mismo por la muerte del oficial Rosales.
9 See War Department Report, 1905, vol. iii., p. 290.
10 Hill was Whittier’s deputy at Llorente.
11 Even if the municipal police had been like Cæsar’s wife, they were like chaff before the wind in a Pulajan foray, though they were somewhat better if well led by some prominent and forceful man of the community in an expedition after Pulajans.
12 A disease of a dropsical variety, usually attacking the legs first, which easily becomes epidemic. It had been the cause of many of the 120 deaths in the Albay jail during the Ola insurrection. Ideal conditions for it are a steady diet of poor rice and lack of exercise.
13 It was not well to be too hasty. You might have the head of the whole uprising in custody, or one of his most important lieutenants, and find it out by the merest accident in the course of hearing a case against some apparently abject “private of the rear rank.”
14 By unwarranted I mean without warrant. Nobody bothered much with warrants. The times were too strenuous.
15 See New York Tribune, Oct. 25, 1904.
16 Ibid.
17 Smith, Bell & Co. are an old British mercantile house, well known in Manila and Hong Kong.
18 The North American Review article by the writer, to which Judge Ide was replying, appeared in the issue of that magazine for January 18, 1907, and could hardly have escaped the attention of anybody concerned, having been given wide circulation; (1) by Mr. Andrew Carnegie through pamphlet reprints; (2) by Hon. Wm. J. Bryan, in his paper, the Commoner; (3) by Hon. James L. Slayden, M. C. of Texas, through reprinting in the Congressional Record.
19 Such as the breakwater at Manila, the road-building in various provinces, etc.—all, however, be it remembered, being paid for by the Filipino people, out of the insular revenues and assets.
20 By Mrs. Campbell Dauncey.
21 Words used by Governor-General James F. Smith, in an address at the Quill Club, Manila, January 25, 1909.