diced b Jos e S. Arc a, - non

Henri Kellep, requested on 10 December 1870 permission to conducthydrographic studies in Philippine waters. Governor Carlos Ma. de la Torregranted the permission, since it came from a friendly nation. On 9 March1871, the English consul in Manila asked for the boat 150 tons of carbon fromthe Cavite depot and a supply of combustibles in Basilan port, as the boat wasin Palawan. Two months later, 9 May 1871, the chief of the Southern LightCraft Division (Fuerzas satiles), Manuel Fernandez Coria, reported that hehad supplied them with 35 tons of carbon. After this first reconaissance of themilitary situation of the Philippine Archipelago, the "Nassau" sailed back toHongkong, and from there returned to the Philippines on 20 December 1871.On board as passengers were Arthur Alexander and Edgar Besant. The boatarrived in Manila on the 24th, received the sealed mail bags and departed on17 January 1872 for Iloilo. There her commander volunteered to bring theofficial correspondence to Zamboanga, and the governor gave him thereports on the Cavite mutiny. But Willima Chimmo did not steer his boat toZamboanga. On 1 February she was sighted in Jolo Bay by the "Santa Lucia,"which forced her to turn back because the Moms were up in arms. Only thendid Chimmo deliver the official papers for the Commandant General of thePhilippine Naval Station, MacCmhon. Later, it was learned from Jose, aMom, that the commandant of the "Nassau" had induced the sultan of Jolonot to seek peace, and had given him cannons, powder, and bullets tocontinue hostilities with Spain. The Spanish schooner, "Arayat," again metthe "Nassau" on 24 March in. the forbidden waters of Jolo."And yet, despite these contacts with the Jolo rebels, it was not Spain thatentered diplomatic protests against such perverse conduct, but England. On15 August 1872, the British chargé d' affaires in Madrid, on orders of hisMinister of Foreign Affairs, the Count of Granville, complained before ourMinister of State against the Spanish Government in the Philippines about thedifficulties of the "Nassau" during its trip to study the waters of theArchipelago. The Governor of the Philippines answered by pointing out thesuspicious adventures of Commander Chimmo and its results: "the warmunitions which served the Sultan of Jolo for his defence."THE ROLE OF FREEMASONRYThe above report was penned by Rafael Izquierdo, too late to realize theinstigators of the Jolo uprising could also have been the same who had helpedplot that of Cavite. Too late, because eight months previously he had refused25