Exacting Harbor Regulations—The Eleanor takes French Leave—Loss of the Gravina—Something about the Native Ladies—Ways of Native Servants—A Sculptor who was a Dentist—Across the Bay to Orani—Children in Plenty—A Public Execution by the Garrote, Page 195
Lottery Chances and Mischances—An American Cigarette-making Machine and its Fate—Closing up Business—How the Foreigner Feels Toward Life in Manila—Why the English and Germans Return—Restlessness among the Natives—Their Persecution—Departure and Farewell, Page 213
[CONCLUSION] Page 230
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Facing page
- [How We Dressed for $2.50] Frontispiece
- [Our Office and the Punkah under which the Old Salts Sat for Free Sea Breezes] 8
- [Plaza de Cervantes, Foreign Business Quarter] 14
- [Puente de España. Manila’s Main Highway Across the Pasig] 20
- [The Busy Pasig, from the Puente de España] 26
- [A Philippine Sleeping-machine] 32
- [The English Club on the Banks of the Pasig] 40
- [The Bull and Tiger Fight—Opening Exercises] 46
- [Suburb of Santa Mesa] 54
- [Our Destination was a Town Called Pagsanjan at the Foot of a Range of Mountains] 60
- [The Rapids in the Gorges of Pagsanjan] 66
- [Cocoanut Rafts on the Pasig, Drifting down to Manila] 72
- [The Little Native School under the Big Mango-tree] 78
- [Calzada de San Miguel] 84
- [A Native Village Up Country] 90
- [A “Chow” Shop on a Street Corner] 98
- [Puentes de Ayala, which Help two of Manila’s Suburbs to Shake Hands Across the Pasig] 106
- [Calzada de San Sebastian] 114
- [Ploughing in the Rice-fields with the Carabao] 122
- [Types of True Filipinos Waiting to Call Themselves Americans] 130
- [On the Banks of the Enchanted Lake] 138
- [In the Narrow Streets of Old Manila. A Procession] 144
- [A Citizen from the Interior] 152
- [How the World’s Supply of Manila Hemp is Cleaned] 160
- [Moro Chiefs from Mindanao] 168
- [Manila Fruit-girls in a Street-Corner Attitude] 176
- [A Typical “Nipa” House] 184
- [The Little Flower-girl at the Opera] 192
- [Rapid Transit in the Suburbs of Manila] 202
- [The Fourth of July, ’95. Execution by the Garrote] 210
- [Paseo de la Luneta] 220
- [Captain Tayler, the Genial Skipper of the Esmeralda] 226
- [Map of Philippines] At End of Volume