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establishment, and whether he required our assistance to 

 effect this object. 



He had especial orders not to make use of arms, even 

 should he find himself possessed of superior force. This 

 order, which deprived him of the power of acquiring 

 laurels, added to the old enmity which existed between 

 him and the Governor of Zamboanga, and were, without 

 doubt, the cause which induced this vile man (in whom 

 Anda had great confidence) to lay open his natural tur- 

 bulent, envious, and domineering character. As every- 

 thing was to be executed in conformity with the plan 

 conceived and contrived by the Governor, Don Raimondo 

 Espanol, Canceli did everything in his power to mar the 

 project. 



On quitting Zamboanga, by a plot contrived between 

 himself and Aviles, an Officer equally perfidious, the 

 supply of fresh water on board was found to be exhausted ; 

 under this pretence, instead of proceeding first to Balam- 

 bangan, they presented themselves at Sooloo, before 

 Espanol had informed the Sultan of that island, as previ- 

 ously agreed, of the sailing of the Expedition, its objects, 

 and his intended arrival there. He so manosuvred as to 

 alarm the whole population, and caused them to to put 

 themselves on the defensive. 



Finally, he despatched a boat to seek for water, as if 

 he had arrived at a desert island, and wrote by this 

 opportunity to a Chinese resident there with whom he 

 was acquainted, to send him him twelve Princesses of 

 that country, for himself and his Officers, and that he in 

 return, would remit him, as payment, a good fat hog. 



