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frequently mixed up the names, places, and dates. This interpretation can alsobe true of "Nassau," but not as the bearer of the news to Cebu; rather it was incharge of bringing it from Iloilo to Zamboanga.Only hypothetically can I suppose that the "Benecia" was a decoy of theplotters to encourage the troops, who were promised an easy and certainvictory. It could be made to appear as the spearhead of that North Americansquadron which the Spaniard Estrella was supposed to have planned to bringin as aid to the insurgents, according to Zaldua's testimony; or one of theboats which Sergeant La Madrid wanted Vicente Generoso — according tothe latter's statement—to check before bombarding or apprehending it.It is possible that the 429 men under Commander Kinderly of the"Benecia" had the mission to protect the trade which his compatriots werefraudulently engaged in, like those of the schooner "Scotland," consideringthe unspeakable diplomatic pressure from his embassy in Madrid.76"BERTHA"From the English newspaper The Australian and Straits Times sent himby our consul on 25 March 1872, Izquierdo knew that this frigate or corvettewas in the south seas looking for a suitable place to establish a Germancolony a little over two months after its departure from Manila and theinsurgent attack on Fort San Felipe. Three years later, Schomburg andCompany, a group engaged in smuggling arms into Jolo, worked through theacting German consul in Singapore, who was also a trader, so that the"Hertha" with her 400 men under the ship captain Kohler could go to protectits interests in insurgent Jolo. Likewise, this trader and diplomat by accident,delayed submitting to the sultan of Jolo Emperor William's official messagethat he could in no way grant the request for aid in view of his good relationswith Spain."These facts also confirm the possibility of foreign intervention in theCavite mutiny."NASSAU"In the case of the "Nassau," the evidence is clearer and more convincing,although indirect because of the secrecy of international diplomaticexchange."Nassau" was a "scientific" boat with a crew of 100 under the frigatecommander Chimmo, for whom the head of the British squadron in China,24