Show ISLANDS the philippine archipelago comprises group of COO islands off the southern coast ot china just now they are holding the attention of the reading population of the lobe this abort des of the islands ia therefore of more than inte reit the islands hadean area of equate miles and bavo been under spanish control for over ears the population aggregating A writer commenting on the inhabitants and btuch an assortment of human beings as makes up that population malay indians form the moat of it there are perhaps pure spaniards many spanish cheoles creoles Cr eoles chinese halfbreed edans of a bundled races from aria and baet indies and metis of evary shade of blood mixture in the mountainous interior ol 01 the larger islands remains a remnant of the aboriginal inhabitants driven back by the malaya long before our began and the language is a survival of the meet primitive form of speech when the great aryan race hoode poured out ol 01 interior asia in the dim past the which swept toward the china sea and ahe pacific carried an earlier people before it the raco of papuans concentrated themselves theme elves on the island of new glinea whence the warlike malays were unable to drive them and where they are found to this day thie island with the philippines and a few email groups in the adjacent edae were all that remained to the aborigines the first communication ot the more civilized facea with the philippines was had by jhb arabs in 1521 the islands were reached by fernando who was killed on one of them lu 1561 philip the second of spain dispatched a squadron equa dron from mexico across the pacific under the command of lopea do leaeu aspi he found that the malays had not only obtained tooting on the islands bat had driven the brigl origl nal inhabitants inh abitanta to the interior aad were killing them afi he subdued the island impartially slaughtering all choie who opposed him in 1570 a second fleet established a settlement in tie bay 0 manila and the following year it wag proclaimed the capital soon after ahe dutch and chinese attempted to gain a bat were beaten off and the spaniards gradually spread the area of their influence in the british under admiral cornish and sir william draper stormed the city and compelled it to rescue itself by the payment of in 1894 with japanese connivance and assistance the malays rebelled and de spanish forts they were defeated but broke out again two months later in 1805 the mohammedan malayans who bad maintained a form of aemi independent sovereignty under a sultan rose in insurrection they were defeated but in there commenced a more general than any preceding it and though won everal brilliant victories and announced over aud over again the complete reestablishment of peace the insurgents sur gents have been gaining strength they threaten the capital itself and the success of spanish aras would be doubtful even though there were no interference by the american fleet spanish rule in the philippines has has been characterized by ita customary cruelty the coil of the islands is exceedingly rich and abe climate is adapted to the stimulation of vegetation gold iron copper coal and sulphur are found in most of the islands mercury has also been discovered |