Crossword-Solution: TALISAY 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Next Rizal acquired a piece of property at Talisay, a little bay close to Dapitan, and at once became interested in his farm.

Josefina was bright, vivacious, and a welcome addition to the little colony at Talisay, but at times Rizal had misgivings as to how it came that this foreigner should be permitted by a suspicious and absolute government to join him, when Filipinos, over whom the authorities could have exercised complete control, were kept away.

Thus the work here had been in a measure simplified, but complications that had arisen at Talisay, one of the largest and richest towns on the island, demanded a change of teachers and the writer was assigned to the place as superintendent.

The books they brought were so varied and so different from one another that it seemed impossible to bring any reasonable degree of order out of such a chaos, and so, after struggling vainly for about a week with the problem, the superintendent by one fell stroke removed everything in use and put in a uniform system, and from that day on the English language has been the _basis_ of instruction in the public schools of Talisay.

For over a generation the Cebuános around Talisay, Minglanilla, and Talambau had sustained a dispute with the friars respecting land-tenure.