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a banca cleared from Iloilo for Tacloban and a lorcha bound for Tacloban with 750 sacks of rice , confiscated guns , ammunition and money worth over 200,000 Mexican dollars , destroyed three barotos and captured a native making for the Samar coast in a baroto , and made arrests in Zumarraga , burned nipa huts and destroyed three barotos more .
In another ship USS Vicksburg , its commander E . B . Barry reported on October 29 , 1901 that nine days earlier a company of Marines destroyed a number of shacks and about 2,500 sacks of rice near Guiuan . Seven days later , his troops again destroyed a number of shacks and captured three small canoes . That evening , they captured a large banca and two more canoes . The next day , they burned 15 to 20 shacks and captured five canoes .
Maj . Littleton T . Waller ( Source : https :// www . flickr . com / photos / judgerock / 3256905620 )
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