Benguet Road, appropriation of money for construction of, 333;
survey and construction of, 455 ff.;
cost of, 457;
completion of, by Colonel Kennon, and final cost, 460–463;
excessive cost of maintenance, 472–473.
Beri-beri, cause of, 391;
measures needful to eradicate, 429.
Biacnabató, Treaty of, 20–21.
Bicols, numbers of, and delegates to Insurgent congress, 263;
census statistics, [933].
Bilibid Prison, school for convicts in, [530]–[531].
Birds of the Philippines, [801].
Blount, James H., misstatements made by, concerning Philippine affairs, 14–15;
false charges of, as to promises of independence to Filipinos, 19–20;
quoted concerning Mr. Pratt and the Singapore meeting to celebrate victories of Dewey and Aguinaldo, 30 ff.;
further quotations from and misstatements by, 34–36, 69, 93, 94;
lays at wrong door the responsibility for outbreak of hostilities between Americans and Filipinos, 150–151;
on conditions in the islands in the fall of 1898, 152, 153 ff.;
activities of, in Pampanga, 158;
horrible conditions in Cagayan valley under Insurgent rule known to, but concealed by, 170–205;
mild view taken by, of Filipino torture of Spanish, 190–191;
frightful crimes condoned by, 191–192;
failure to report to government the troubles and disorders in his province, 203–204;
views on Admiral Dewey’s report of conditions in Manila Province under Insurgent rule, 210;
a flagrant example of the misstatements made by, 217–219;
false statements concerning Mindoro, 219–221;
mistakes of, concerning Palawan, 221–224;
on the kind of republic Aguinaldo would have established, 242–243;
on mortality in Batangas as a consequence of the war, 293–294;
refutation of insinuations by, concerning first Philippine Commission, 302–303, 312, 322;
false and contemptible characterization of Colonel Denby by, 326;
criticism by, of Philippine Commission’s action in establishing civil governments in certain provinces, 338;
complaints of, relative to Philippine constabulary, 383;
version given by, of disorders in Albay, Samar, and Leyte, 388, 391, 392;
chapter devoted by, to “Non-Christian Worcester,” [557]–[558];
abusive and insulting language of, [558];
corrections of statements made by, concerning non-Christian tribes, [637]–[659];
contradictory statements by, concerning Insurgent barbarities, [753];
misstatements by, as to Manila’s position with reference to markets, [886]–[887];
refutation of statements of, as to “tariff-wrought poverty” of Philippines, [911] ff.;
on marriages between Americans and Filipinos, [940];
on the domination of the white man, [941];
on the capacity of Filipinos for self-government, [943];
quotes Mr. Bryan on Filipino independence, [961]–[962].
Blumentritt, inaccurate book on wild tribes by, [534], [557].
Bohol, area and population of, 218;
establishment of civil government in, 337–340.