The unfortunate victim was then tied, laid on it, and the earth and ants which had been removed were shovelled back over his body until only his head projected.

The ants did the rest! Another rather unusual achievement of this interesting individual was to tie the feet of one of his enemies to a tree, fasten a rope around his neck, hitch a carabao to the rope, and start up the carabao, thus pulling off the head of his victim.

Yet this man and others like him were set at liberty under the amnesty proclamation, in spite of the vigorous protests of the Philippine Commission, who thought that murderers of this type ought to be hanged.
And now I wish to discuss briefly an interesting and highly characteristic statement of Judge Blount.

In referring to conditions in the Visayan Islands, he says:-- "Of course the Southern Islands were a little slower.

But as Luzon goes, so go the rest.