[200] Retana prints this at p. 349. [201] Retana, pp. 347–348. [202] Derbyshire, p. xii. [203] Fernández, p. 244. “The ordinary prisons were more than full, and about 600 suspects were confined in the dungeons of Fort Santiago at the mouth of the Pasig river, where a frightful tragedy occurred. The dungeons were overcrowded ... the Spanish sergeant on duty threw his rug over the only light and ventilating shaft and in a couple of days carts were seen by many citizens carrying away the dead, calculated to number seventy. Provincial governors and parish priests seemed to regard it as a duty to supply the capital with batches of ‘suspects’ from their localities. In Vigan, where nothing had occurred, many of the heads of the best families and moneyed men were arrested and brought to Manila. They were bound hand and foot and carried like packages of merchandise in the hold. I happened to be on the quay when the steamer discharged her living freight with chains and hooks to haul up and swing out the bodies like bales of hemp.... I was informed by my friend the Secretary of the Military Court that 4,377 individuals were awaiting trial by court martial.”—John Foreman, “The Philippine Islands,” pp. 375, 377. In September alone thirty-seven men were shot after summary trials. Compare Blair and Robertson, Vol. LII, p. 191. [204] Foreman, p. 376. [205] Craig, pp. 229–230; Blair and Robertson, Vol. LII, p. 190. [206] Foreman, p. 376. [207] Retana, p. 351. “No! Prófugo? No! Me declararían cómplice del levantamiento!” [208] Craig, p. 231; Derbyshire, p. xliii. [209] His old friend, Dr. Antonio Maria Regidor of London, was the author of this plan. It went so far that all the papers were drawn up and signed. Retana prints them at pp. 352–353. [210] Craig, p. 234. [211] Dr. Craig’s translation. [212] Craig, p. 237.