This caused murmuring even among those of the soldiers who were natives of the Cagayan valley.

At the same time two other priests were horribly whipped in the prison.
This has been a long story, but the half has not been told.

Those who escaped torture had their feelings harrowed by the sight of the sufferings of their fellows.

They were constantly and grossly insulted; were often confined in the most unsanitary quarters; given poor and insufficient food and bad water, or none at all; robbed of their clothing; compelled to march long distances under a tropical sun when sick, wounded and suffering; obliged to do servants' work publicly; forced to make a ridiculous spectacle of themselves in the public streets; ordered to recant, and heaven knows what not! The torments practised on them had two principal objects: to compel them to give up money, and to discredit them with the common people.

They failed to accomplish this latter result.