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over the village. Here we were rejoined by those members 

 of the Expedition who, there not being room for all on 

 board the lorcha, had made out the voyage to Los Baiios in 

 a small boat. The Government officer of the village of 

 Pasig was so kind as to provide for our exploration of the 

 lake a well-appointed, thoroughly armed and equipped war- 

 galley ; by no means a superfluous precaution when making 

 an excursion upon the lake, as it has not unfrequently hap- 

 pened that unprotected strangers have returned to Manila 

 robbed of everything. 



We had great difficulty in making our kind Father Lo- 

 renzo, whose wanderings had been rather limited, comprehend 

 from what country we came, and to what nation we belonged. 

 The natives of Luzon for the most part believe that all man- 

 kind consists of but two nations, Spaniards and English ; 

 the former they regard as their own masters, while the po- 

 litical and commercial power of the latter impress them with 

 more terror than sympathy, and this feeling is still further 

 deepened by that spii^itual teaching, which makes everything 

 seem to their untutored minds of the most terrible criminality, 

 which does not strictly accord with Roman Catholicism. 



Los Bauos (the baths), so named on account of the numer- 

 ous hot springs, whose source is close at hand at the foot of 

 the now extinct volcanic cone of Maquilui, thickly wooded 

 to its very summit, was so far back as the end of the 16th 

 centmy a place of resort for invalids, who hoped here to 

 find a cm'e for their various maladies. In the interests of 



