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A 'VISIT TO THE INDIAN AKCHIPELAGO. 



We found that villages, much nearer Manilla than those 

 now in our view, were tilghtly kept on tlie r/tii-vivc by this 

 source of alarm. It w strange that tliis aliould he a tiiie 

 complaint so near tJie capital of the Phillippiiic Islands, 

 colonised by the Spaniards upwards of three centuries 

 ago— but no it was. 



Beturmng to the village in the alter noon, and not being 

 able to leain anything definite about the probability of 

 our friend *s rotunij we gave up the liope of shooting and 

 rejoined our canoes with some regret, imagining that, 

 much aa we bad seen, we might possibly liave missed 

 some of the beau^es of these lakes through want of a 

 eompetcnt cicerone. 



" We had also heard of the existence of a volcano in 

 this neighbourhood, said to be sonictiiiies in aetivity^ — but 

 we did not see it. Faiiiy embarked again in our canoes, 

 we slept off our disappointment, and awoke the next 

 morning in Manilla/' 



The white buildings of the naval arsenal at Cavita^ 

 situated in the bay nine miles to the southward of Kanilla, 

 may be seen from tlie anchorage. Tliis town, conuuanding 

 respect by its antiquity, was founded by Don Miguei 

 Lopez do Legaspi, the first Captain-General, about 1564. 

 It still contains the remains of one of that intorestin|j; 

 class of vessels, tlie Spanish galleon — the last of its order, 

 — now rotting in the basin, 



I had the honour of being entertained by His Excel- 

 Icney^ General Don Antonio Maria Eknco, Field-Marshal, 



