e money, but a certain amount he must
turn in at stated times, or else be put in prison and have other
unpleasant things done to him. So it stood the "Gobernadorcillo"
in good stead to know who his people were, and where they were,
and how much each person could be made to pay.

As soon as his arm was rested from the beating he had given the
suspected natives the official began a personal search of each house
in the village. The native houses are so simple, and their stock
of furniture so small, that it was no great task to make a thorough
inspection of the entire place. What little furniture each house had
was outside of it when the examination of that house was completed. It
was fortunate for the people who lived in the houses built over the
water that their homes were visited at low tide, for in the state
of the examiner's temper when he visited them I think their effects
would have gone out into the sea just as quickly as they went out on
to the sand.

Even my house came under the terms of the universal edict, although
my things were not used so harshly as were those of the natives,
which was fortunate for me, for I had hundreds of specimens packed,
and many more ready to pack, which I should have been very sorry
indeed to have had dumped out of doors.

My relations with the Governor had always been pleasant. He really was
quite as good a man as any one in his place could be expected to be. We
had gotten along very well together, and I was glad now that this was
so. When he came to my house he contented himself with looking through
the part of the building where the native servant who cooked for me
worked and lived. Poljensio slept at home, and spent only the daytime
at my house. The search of that part of the establishment over, the
worried official sat down in my work room to rest for a few minutes,
cool himself off, and bewail the fate which had brought him such ill
luck. Poljensio, who was washing sponges on the platform outside,
and had for this reason not been at his brother's house, where he
slept, when that domicile was searched, was called in, and while
his official master rested, was made to strip himself stark naked,
and turn his few slight garments--the clothing of a Moro is always an
uncertain quantity--inside out to show that nothing was hidden therein.

Knowing the place so well as I did, and the means at the command of the
"Gobernadorcillo," I could not for the life of me see how any one who
had