1st District, Major, Naval Lieutenant, Captain of Port. 2nd District, Lieut.-Colonel. 3rd District, Lieut.-Colonel. 4th District, Major. 5th District, Lieut.-Colonel. 6th District, Naval Lieutenant, Naval Station. Besides these politico-military governors there were the following officers in charge of military districts:-- Mumungan in 2nd district (Fort Weyler and vicinity to look after the Moros of Lake Lanao) Major. Dapitan in 2nd district (To look after the Moros of Sindangan Bay) Major. Bislig in 3rd district (To look after the Mandayas and Manobos) Captain. To attend to the administration of justice there was a third-class judge in each district. From their decisions there was an appeal to the Audiencia at Cebú, and from there to the Supreme Court, Madrid. In Zamboanga where there is (or was) a custom-house, there resided a Treasury delegate of the second class. In each of the other districts there is one of the fourth class. The southern naval division has its headquarters at Isabela de Basilan. Productions of Mindanao. The climate and soil of Mindanao are suitable for growing almost any tropical crop to great advantage: hemp, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee, cacao, rice, indigo, sesame, maize, sweet potatoes, pepper, all flourish. But the island is very backward; it is only recently that the savage races have been settled in the reducciones. The population is very sparse, and natives are more addicted to washing the sands for gold or seeking jungle-produce than disposed to apply themselves to agriculture. The exports have hitherto been very small. About some of the northern ports a good beginning has been made in cultivating and preparing hemp, and several Spaniards have laid out plantations there. There is a small export of coffee and cacao, and the circumstance that the greater part of the island is free from typhoons renders it exceptionally favourable for planting these valuable products, or for growing unlimited quantities of cocoa-nut for making copra. For the same reason the timber in Mindanao is larger than in the best districts of Luzon, and some of the trees are truly magnificent. Mindanao, with its inhabitants busily engaged in murdering their neighbours and enslaving their children, can, of course, never prosper; but if such outrages are repressed, and peace assured, the population will rapidly increase and agriculture will prosper.