samples of it.--Tr.

[64] This is Quiroga's pronunciation of _Christo_.--Tr.

[65] The native priests Burgos, Gomez, and Zamora, charged with
complicity in the uprising of 1872, and executed.--Tr.

[66] This versicle, found in the booklets of prayer, is common on the
scapularies, which, during the late insurrection, were easily converted
into the _anting-anting_, or amulets, worn by the fanatics.--Tr.

[67] This practise--secretly compelling suspects to sign a request
to be transferred to some other island--was by no means a figment of
the author's imagination, but was extensively practised to anticipate
any legal difficulties that might arise.--Tr.

[68] "Hawk-Eye."--Tr.

[69] Ultima Razon de Reyes: the last argument of
kings--force. (Expression attributed to Calderon de la Barca, the
great Spanish dramatist.)--Tr.

[70] Curiously enough, and by what must have been more than a mere
coincidence, this route through Santa Mesa from San Juan del Monte was
the one taken by an armed party in their attempt to enter the city at
the outbreak of the Katipunan rebellion on the morning of August 30,
1896. (Foreman's _The Philippine Islands_, Chap. XXVI.)

It was also on the bridge connecting these two places that the first
shot in the insurrection against American sovereignty was fired on
the night of February 4, 1899.--Tr.

[71] Spanish etiquette requires a host to welcome his guest with the
conventional phrase: "The house belongs to you."--Tr.

[72] The handwriting on the wall at Belshazzar's feast, foretelling
the destruction of Babylon. Daniel, v, 25-28.--Tr.

[73] A town in Ciudad Real province, Spain.--Tr.

[74] The italicized words are in English in the original.--Tr.

[75] A Spanish hero, whose chief exploit was the capture of Gibraltar
from the Moors in 1308.--Tr.

[76] Emilio Castelar (1832-1899), generally regarded as the greatest
of Spanish orators.--Tr.

[77] In the original the message reads: "Espanol escondido casa Padre
Florentino cojera remitira vivo muerto." Don Tiburcio understands
_cojera_ as referring to himself; there is a play upon the Spanish
words _cojera_, lameness, and _cogera_, a form of the verb _coger_,
to seize or capture--_j_ and _g_ in these two words having the same
sound, that of the English _h_.--Tr.

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