Consequently the poor inhabitants are suffering great distress, and cannot support themselves.

Formerly a soldier could live on 15 or 20 pesos a year; now that sum will maintain him only one month.

Many of the natives have died in the expeditions made to Maluco, Borneo, and elsewhere; and a plague of locusts has added to the distress in the islands.

Sadornel is thirty-one years of age, and has spent thirteen years in this country." [5] The "old style" calendar authorized by the Council of Nice (A.D.

325) was based on erroneous conclusions, and consequently contained an error which, steadily increasing, amounted to ten days at the time of its correction.