Thirteen  of  the  priests  fell  uito  their  hands.  They  cut  trenches  and
threw  up  earthworks  in  several  of  the  main  roads  of  the  province,  and
strengthened  their  position  at  Novaleta.  Marauding  parties  were  sent
out  ever3rwhere  to  steal  the  crops  and  live-stock,  which  were  conveyed
in  lai^  quantities  to  Imus.  Some  of  the  captured  priests  were  treated^
most  barbarously.  One  was  cut  up  piecemeal ;  another  was  saturated
with  petroleum  and  set  on  fire,  and  a  third  was  bathed  in  oil  and  fried  i
on  a  bamboo  spit  run  through  the  length  of  his  body.  There  was  a
Requiem  Mass  for  this  event.  During  the  first  few  months  of  the
rising  many  such  atrocities  were  committed  by  the  insurgents.  The
Naig  outrage  caused  a  great  sensation  in  the  capital.  ITie  lieutenant
had  been  killed,  and  the  ferocious  band  of  rebels  seized  his  widow
and  daughter  eleven  years  old.  The  child  was  ravished  to  death,  and
they  were  just  digging  a  pit  to  bury  the  mother  alive  when  she  was
rescued  and  brought  to  Manila  in  tiie  steam-launch  Mariposa  raving
mad,  disguised  as  a  native  woman.  Aguinaldo,  personally,  was
humanely  incUned,  for  at  his  heculquarters  he  held  captive  one  Spanish
trooper,  an  army  Ueutenant,  a  Spanish  planter,  a  friar,  and  two  Spanish
ladies,  all  of  whom  were  fairly  well  treated.  The  priest  was  allowed  to
read  his  missal,  the  lieutenant  and  trooper  were  made  blacksmiths,  and
the  planter  had  to  try  his  hand  at  tailoring.
The  insurgents  occupied  Paratiaque  and  Las  Pifias  on  the  outskirts
of  Manila,  and  when  General  Blanco  had  5,000  fresh  troops  at  his
disposal  he  still  refrained  from  attacking  the  rebels  in  their  positions.
