The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-27

campi1sn The long heavy two,6nnded muir.
derars weapon. is 40 common that il il valued al
much lass than n good kris Resides his bic
knife every Moro wears i'm his hell. close 10 his
body n small one usually shared ike a kris,
and ALWAYS as sharp ms il can be- made,
nan wa vol down m tma morlat nlace ,h.
first Moro. Scrr ms, coming across he river.
or course they had seen Tho ships. and they
must have known that the Americans had come
. 10 Town bui that aid MOI deter than i'm he least.
They did moi show the slivhtes, surprise, and
they took the hilsriously friendly greeting of
The Americans ms calmly ms they had done in
Jolo. And immediately they began TO profit
nv the new order of things For IN, Americans
went down M the edge of m, stream 10 meet
them and renched ON, Their hands TO take what
they wanted ihat the MOros had for sale. The
demand fnr arms rn. observation-disclosures and unnn-
inous. with the result th,t many n Moro turned
back To the other side without Leaving The water
and went after hi. kris or CamniIan. or course
tho law ri slInnlv and d.n,nnd heuan IN work
on the spot and he Moros were not slow 10
rerovnilr il priras .nnraj and in "a few min
u,es The non-lInrn inhohItants of the town
were ninoz.d IN sa, ,ha A,narirans having ten,
twelyr and .van nr,..n dollars for knjy ,s that
i'm ordinary times wnra denr M, three Hut the
Americans liked IL and So did he Muros.
those of I'M, sulms In ,ioi" the men remind
Won of Stony Indians Thas. men looked 30
much like women tint II was hnrd 10 believe they
we're not. They wore their hair in knots twisted
nm IN TON nf ,hr load and ,h.i, features
we're extremely feminine They are short.
squat fellows mostly with few sizeablr men
among them In ali rho crowd thnt dny | snw
only ON, who could M, called ANYTHING like
hurry Ia. wo ,hn Dpoto ai VIII" soId Every
Thing he bad in the way of arms or adornmrnt
| pxCpp, his lowered Chines. SIN Jacket which
would have brought him "A. much rs all he rest
cnn,hirad and "S,,id ha,,a h,.an rerlacpd from
! Ianton for a { he nniy Ind known II These
! fellows also diner from the S,In Noros in their
dress There the men wear line most wonder
mi sEip,inb, tr",.er. ,Sst could he imagined
Her, th,v stslk ,hout in great hays of simple
! color, Instead of he yariy stripes Affected in
Jolo. Their Jackets. TOO. are loose and not 80
nrIruronce as The followers of the sultan with
Tie very Iouv name
There was a slave ,nark., also in Iipan and that
rrohahly viii give some good reorle nj home
n gray. min Iut .n,nelow il fails 10 catch
vol by he throat ard choke Won breathlesS
10 ser one of ihesr Moros who has been on "A
rard-rIayipu inmhor.p for three or -four DAYS
and In.i IN III. ,nona, ,n m I'm Inc block and .rlI
himself for thn nriGe of Iis redemption from
his doh, of honor When his time has been
norL.d ,n, and l.. IL ,raa ayain no may win
enough TO buy the man who JUS, owned him.
slave. are ch,,on and ea.y 70 gel ,he,r and il is
moi So dirlrnl, 10 get out of the bondage. Piang.
the most powerful Da,o in the i.land now.
hogan business as n slay, moi 80 nany years
AGO If Congress should npuropriotc money
enough ia hny all The slaves i'm Nindanao and
set them free il would be- a great good thing for
the Noros for If would Give many OF them some
money h,t i'm order TO keen all the slaves in
freedom II would be necessary TO make the
uurchasr A daily opcration Voluntary slavery.
where I'M, slave likes II seems lkplN 10 D' UNI
cult to eradicate.
While MAJOR Craighill was looking over his
town and getting the preliminary work done.
DO C.nn,aI ,n. hayiu, rnufnrourc. with the
ln,dinv t;,i,rns and some of the r|rinciyal
DaIos Of nm, NurCs II seemed that tho insIr-
gents never had hceu very -irouy there. and
only n shor, lime before our arrival word had
come from Cavayan the head town OF thA
district thai lie Americans would bp resisted
AT that town and hat ali The arms that could be
suarrd should be- sent there. The result was
- - no - IN. -. h.-.. vuA.a
mn.Iy Old derr.tii thiur. thar were no good
to am body The half dozen cannon were of
The usual useless variet, The result of all
tI,. tnlE seemed 70 me that in all probability
tLn Ausr,cnus would have no tronbls in getting
INTO The interior and IN going to lake Iala0
and raising The .unkcn gnnhoat,. Gen. Bates
vent hack 4, the Manila well satisfied
The market had been gong very Success
fully for both side. The Noros came IN con-
.tan,ly Increasing number. and brought moro
and more arms and other trinkets which the
fix nIi of money The prospect of there
LONG ANYTHING 10 buy in Iiigan had been 50
slight lha, although We knew tia, SaturdaY
silver dollar, ashore and tho Nloro~ would
have nothing to do with any oihcr kind Of
money our gold wa, useless. and Ia, laughed
either American or FlIipinG paper. There
wa. whore Nicola. came in our ala. He was
n Tagni n drportnJo from Manila. sent down
10 he Killed by The Moros in the dav, when
'fat1 tlINl ItII I'LL NlI u ~ ~ Ut
popula,n h, district by sYplriuE that they
wer, all lusurrectos. and no doubt coming
worry near 10 The truth But Nicolas had moi
chosen Ia he killed by Moro. Instead, he
had iratprniZed with them and learned their
languap. and now hn was acting ~ our in
terpreier and making no one knows what
commissions on the things he sworp Ne were
having t,o mich for. After a while when
ali our money was gone. Nicolas had ncCu-
mulated az much that he lent MS $50 Then
when that too was spent he stood sponsor
for us with the NlOrOs for whatever else We
wanted 10 buy. Hc lent rs MS credit. The"
no looked ont for getting y hancH to take
rs hack 10 the shin. which had moved from
her tirst anchorage To n place SevcraI miles
down The coast where there was a pier on which
the stores could h" unloaded Tie begujled
m, ,Gr,., hours oi the "Trip w the ship with
many storir- of hi~ experiences ~ lligan. A.
we started ont the na. was raised IN the square
and the Yorktown sniuted il. No one needed
ia tell him what the firing meant. At the
fir, sound OF went his hat and "Iird Ia Re-
pabiicd imtrirdpG'' he shouted his was
Inc .tory No told about the great iiSurgeu,
intention. To fight Ms AZ IiQan and the failure
tn keen Them,
While ago before the Americans came.
we Ind a Presidents and a Cahinct Will n
chief Of poic, and n Judge, The men of H.
gan were very valiant. When the Amer.-
c,ns como they said every man will run
Ia his hons. and get his gun. We will defend
nur beloved country This morning ram" !
the \meriCanS Everybody did run 20 his
house bu, il wa to hide his gun. Much talk.
mo vun Very valiant tine men Of lliyar. They ,
know nothing more than To rob. .
The next dav the ,n~tellano took Can't. k"l-
Tvs companv Of McNamoe'~ battalion To- Dali
ian down Inc coast. where they landed and
found everything uuirt and I"lccCUl The
native. rold Kelly wha, he lligan men Ind
said that they had some rifles, but rhat they