On His Arrest in Fort Santiago

July 6, 1892

They assigned me a fairly furnished room with a bed, a dozen chairs, one table, a wash basin, and a mirror. The room had three windows; one without grill which opens on a patio, another with grills which looks out on the city walls and the beach and another which was the door closed with a padlock.  Two artillery men as sentinels guarded it. They had orders to fire on anyone who might signal from the beach.  I could not write nor speak with anyone except the officer on duty.