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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

CHAPTER tenth
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After they had been harmonized once, they began to quarrel again, and with much more scandal than before.

I tried for the second time to pacify them; and when I saw that talking to each one in private could result in nothing, one day, in full meeting, I set before them the great scandal that they were causing in this city, and the bad example that they were setting to it; and declared to them the great displeasure of your Majesty, if you should know it, and of God too.

The hand of the Lord was interposed, and their lack of harmony ended from that time; and they have been on friendly terms ever since.

In public as in secret, God works His will.
In a decree sent to me by the Inquisition of Mexico your Majesty orders me to deliver the records of proceedings and the prisoners to the commissary of the Inquisition there; this I did immediately, as I was only awaiting a message sufficient to enable me to do so, but which had not come until then.

I know that many troubles will surely arise from this in the future; but, in doing what is ordered me, I obey.


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