after I saw the man from the Casa Viola get on the

nc and wondered what it meant, Barrios's trans* ts were entering this liarNr, and the 'Treasure

>e of the World,' as the Times man calls Sulaco in

his x>oi, was saved intact for civilization for a great future, sir. Pedrito, with Hernandez on the west the San Tome" miners pressing on the land gate, was not able to oppose the landing. He had been mg messages to Sotillo for a week to join him. Sotillo done so there would have been massacres and proscription that would have left no man or woman of position alive. But that's where Dr. Monyg- liain comes in Sotillo, blind and deaf to everything, stuck on board his steamer watching the dragging for silver, which he believed to be sunk at the bottom of the harbor They say that for the last three days he was out of his mind, raving and foaming with disap- pointment at getting nothing, flying about the deck and yelling curses at the boats with the drags, ordering them in. and then suddenly stamping his foot and crying out, 'And yet it is there! I see it! I feel it!'" " He was preparing to hang Dr. Monygham (whom he had on board) at the end of the after-derrick, when the first of Barrios's transports, one of our own ships at that, steamed right in, and, ranging close alongside, opened a small-arm fire without as much preliminaries as a hail. It was the completest surprise in the world, sir. They were too astounded at first to bolt below. Men were falling right and left like ninepins. It's a miracle that Monygham, standing on the after-hatch with the rope already round his neck, escaped being

riddled through and through like a sieve. He told