Excerpt from The Corner-Stone of Philippine Independence: A Narrative of Seven Years I then made the acquaintance of General Frank Mc Intyre, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, a stanch and true friend in many an hour of subsequent political trial, and Of major-general Wood, who was cordiality itself. A few days later I met my immediate chief, Mr. Garrison, the Secretary of War, who had been absent on a tour of the army posts of the West at the time of my appointment. On the tenth of Sep tember my party sailed from San Francisco on the Pacific Mail liner M anchun'a, westward bound. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.