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Title: A Woman's Journey through the Philippines

Author: Florence Kimball Russel

Release date: March 26, 2007 [eBook #20913]

Language: English

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A WOMAN’S JOURNEY
THROUGH
THE PHILIPPINES

Thanks are due Messrs. Harper and Brothers and the editors of “The Criterion” and of “Everybody’s Magazine” for permission to republish parts of the chapters on Sulu, Zamboanga, and Bongao, respectively.

A Woman’s Journey
through the Philippines

On a cable ship that linked together the strange lands seen en route.

By Florence Kimball Russel
Author of “Born to the Blue” Etc.

Boston, L. C. Page and Company—MDCCCCVII

Copyright, 1907

By L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated)

Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London

All rights reserved

First Impression, June, 1907

Colonial Press

Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U. S. A.

TO
My Husband
WITHOUT WHOSE INSPIRATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT
THIS BOOK WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN WRITTEN

Contents

I. Introductory Statements 11

II. Dumaguete 27

III. Misamis 53

IV. Iligan 92

V. Cagavan 105

VI. Cebu 115

VII. Zamboanga 145

VIII. Sulu 183

IX. Bongao 208

X. Tampakan and the Home Stretch 234

List of Illustrations

The Belle of Bongao (See page 222) Frontispiece

Laying a Shore End in a Philippine Coast Town 12

“Until eventide the summer skies above us slept, as sid the summer seas below us” 19

A Philippine Coast Town 24

Dumaguete 27

Diving for Articles Thrown from the Ship 28

“Hard at work establishing an office in the town” 30

“Two women beating clothes on the rocks of a little stream” 41

Church and convento, Dumaguete 42

The Old Fort at Misamis 53

“The native band serenaded us” 56

The Lintogup River 60

A Misamis Belle 70

Laying Cable from a Native Schooner 90

A Street in Iligan 94

Market-day at Iligan 96

“It was evident that he was a personage of no little importance” 99

St. Thomas Church, Cebu 117

Magellan’s Chapel, Cebu 118

Unloading Hemp at Cebu 124

Grove of Palms near Cebu 133

Ormoc 137

Releasing the Buoy From the Cable in a Heavy Sea 143

Quarters of the Commanding Officer, Zamboanga 147

Officers’ Quarters, Zamboanga 162

A Street in Zamboanga 170

Street Scene, Zamboanga—native Bathing-place, Zamboanga 176

The Pier at Sulu 183

Natives of Sulu 185

Moro Houses, Tuli 187

The Moro School for Boys, Sulu 197

Chinese, Moro, and Visayan Children, Sulu 203

Soldiers’ Quarters, Bongao 208

Natives of Bongao 221

Toolawee 224

Market-day in a Moro Village 234

A Group of Moros 236

A Collection of Moro Weapons 247

Pasacao 256