ut result,
but eventually the natives allowed the women to be taken away.

Some of the Spanish soldiers and the civil servants concentrated in
Zamboanga were carried direct to the Peninsula, _via_ the Straits
of Balabac, in the steamers _Buenos Aires, Isla de Luzon_, and
_Cachemir_, and from Manila many of them returned to their country in
the s.s. _Leon XIII_. In conformity with the Treaty of Paris (Art. 5),
little by little all the Spanish troops, temporarily prisoners of
the United States in Manila, were repatriated.

The Philippine Republican Congress at Malolos had now (December 26,
1898) adjourned in great confusion. The deputies could not agree upon
the terms of a Republican Constitution. They were already divided
into two distinct parties, the Pacificos and the Irreconcilables. The
latter were headed by a certain Apolinario Mabini (_vide_ p. 546),
a lawyer hitherto unknown, and a notorious opponent of Aguinaldo
until he decided to take the field against the Americans. The Cabinet
having resigned, Aguinaldo prudently left Malolos on a visit to Pedro
A. Paterno, at Santa Ana, on the Pasig River.

At the end of the year 1898, after 327 years of sovereignty, all that
remained to Spain of her once splendid Far Eastern colonial possessions
were the Caroline, the Pelew, and the Ladrone Islands (_vide_ p. 39),
minus the Island of Guam. Under the treaty of peace, signed in Paris,
the Americans became nominal owners of the evacuated territories,
but they were only in real possession, by force of arms, of Cavite
and Manila. The rest of the Archipelago, excepting Mindanao and the
Sulu Sultanate, was virtually and forcibly held by the natives in
revolt. At the close of 1898 the Americans and the rebels had become
rival parties, and the differences between them foreboded either
frightful bloodshed or the humiliation of the one or the other.

Treaty of Peace

concluded between the United States of America and Spain, signed
in Paris on December 10, 1898, and ratified in Washington on
February 6, 1899. The original documents (in duplicate) are drawn
up in Spanish and in English respectively.

_The English Text_} [207]

_Article_ 1.--Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over
and title to Cuba. And as the Island is, upon its evacuation by
Spain, to be occupied by the United States, the United States will,
so long as such occupation shall last, assume and discharge the