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Aboard her were a few commercial men, headed south for stops in the Visayans and Mindanao, and a great many men, women and children who wanted only to leave Japanese-bombed Manila.

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The narrow, treacherous outer passages of the Visayans can be mined, and in protected inner passages light naval craft could lie in relative security between sorties against an invader.

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Army troops; 12,000 crack, professional Philippine Scouts, as good as soldiers come; 100,000 Filipino reservists who had quit the villages of Mindanao, the Visayans and Luzon to shoulder rifles.

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For defense, the Philippines group themselves into three sectors: Mindanao, the Visayans and Luzon.

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The Visayans call him Laon, which denotes “antiquity.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen