Insurgent Rule in the Cagayan Valley Nueva Vizcaya is drained by the Magat River, a branch of the Cagayan.

While the provinces of Isabela and Cagayan constitute the Cagayan valley proper, Blount includes Nueva Vizcaya in the territory covered by this designation, and for the purpose of this discussion I will follow his example.
Especial interest attaches to the history of Insurgent rule, in the Cagayan valley, as above defined, for the reason that Blount himself served there as a judge of the court of first instance.

He says: [271]-- "The writer is perhaps as familiar with the history of that Cagayan valley as almost any other American." He was.

For his action in concealing the horrible conditions which arose there under Insurgent rule, with which he was perfectly familiar, and in foisting on the public the account of Messrs.

Wilcox and Sargent, as portraying the conditions which actually existed there, I propose to arraign him before the bar of public opinion.