Excerpt from War Time in Manila This little book is made up mainly of extracts from letters to my mother, that were written on the spot, immediately after the various events narrated had occurred. This fact explains an obvious freedom of diction and expression of opinion that I have not tried to change, thinking that the language used under the influence of the actual events would give the truest picture. I was 44 years old at the time, and had been in the Navy 28 years. N 0 account, written on the spot by an officer, de scribing the Battle of Manila Bay and the events that immediately followed, has yet appeared, or is likely to appear. As the conditions prevailing at the time are rapidly passing away, and many have passed away already, the testimony of an actor in the drama may be of interest and possible historic value. It may even call attention to series of events that the people are rapidly forgetting, and whose importance their minds have never grasped. 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.