Word: islet
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...sugar plantations. †Once upon a time there eloped from Cavite, ancient Spanish Philippine settlement, a nun and a friar who were pursued by the high sheriff (el corregidor). The nun was caught on a little island off Manila Bay now named Lamonja (the nun) ; the friar on an islet now called El Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns, is known as "the stationary battleship." But experts consider Corregidor to be as impregnable...
...miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian, Norwegian, U. S.) sticking up at the top of the world on iron-pointed staves dropped into the ice- but not so much as a rocky islet had arisen out of the vast Polar Sea. Disappointed yet jubilant they had flown past Point Barrow, on down the Alaskan coast for 700 miles, and alighted...