The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 44]

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from their asylum and put to death, joined the crowd,
and promoted the sedition, all providing themselves
with arms. A page of the governor, hearing the confusion and yells, entered his master's apartment, and
in alarm gave him the news that various religious
were coming toward the palace, conducting a mission. The governor, greatly disturbed, sprang up,
and ordered the guards to keep back the crowd; he
went to a window, and heard that from the corner of
the cathedral tower thirty men were asked for to
check the people, who were marching through that
street. He despatched an order to the fort to discharge the artillery at the crowd; but he was so little
obeyed that, although they applied the match to two
cannons, these were aimed so low that the balls were
buried in the middle of the esplanade of the fort.
Without opposition this multitude arrived at the
doors of the palace, the Jesuits following at a short
distance, with many of the common people and many
boys, the entire crowd, with deafening yells, repeating the vivas of the religious. As for the soldiers of
the guard, some retreated in fear, and others in terror
laid down their arms. The mob climbed up by ladders, and entered the first hall, the halberdiers not
firing the swivel-guns that had been provided,
although the governor commanded them to do so; he
now went forward to meet them, with a gun, its bayonet fixed, and gave confused orders to his retainers
to seize the weapons which by his order had been
taken from them. One of the religious presented
himself to the governor, and tried to set forth to him
the misfortunes into which he was rushing headlong;
but at the first words that he uttered, the governor,
already furious, said to him, 'Go away, Fatherl'