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I exerted myself to get together the Spaniards, who were pacifying these islands and had the island of Page 161Borney reconnoitred in two parts, by oared vessels of the sort that the natives use.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Oh, why certainly, of course," said Starr as if she were pacifying a frantic child, "I can ask him.

From Lo, Michael! by Hill, Grace Livingston