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In this place we enjoy playing majong with other evacuees. One time the soldiers coming from Panay happen to encounter the Japanese on their way. We have to run in any dirention again not knowing where to go cause' we are stranger to that place. We crossed a lake going to the mountains when dark came we reach a house where no people live cause' they fled also going further in the mountains. we stayed in the house for a week. One day there was heavy rain that made a wide flood that is hard to cross the lake. That day Ferrer went to town to buy us food. He was caught by the rain and got sick. He can't talk with high fever. It's hard for us to go to town to get help. Good there was a woman who happen to pass our way who offered to cure him. She boiled only a young orange and pound and applied to his throat. That made him well. When all was clear we return again to our place in the town proper. Soldiers from Panay go and came to this place. One day there was a Japanese plane that was hit and fell in our area. The pilot was a young boy and he was beaten by the people. Later they brought him to Aklan in Banga where he was tortured and killed in the crossing (Banga) where the Japanese killed many civilians.

Some days passed we learned there was no more Japanese in Aklan so we planned to go home. We prepared our things, bringing cavans of rice, corn and chickens.