An Englishwoman in the Philippines

by Mrs. Campbell Dauncey

[7] A corruption of tubig, Visayan for water.

[8] The fighting bolo, the more deadly and elaborate weapon is always kept concealed in the hut.

[9] This breach of Oriental decorum is one of the most fatal and irreparable mistakes the Americans have made in the Philippines. It is a subject on which the Filipino or Mestizo is not slow to speak his mind. Alas for misunderstandings!

[10] The Tagalos are a much more industrious race than the Visayans, and are always in demand as clerks, workmen, or servants, in preference to the Southerners.

[11] I have before me a cutting from The Manila Times, containing an account of the arrival in Manila, by the Transport Dix from San Francisco, of “eleven strong-limbed, square-jawed bloodhounds” ... “for the work of trailing the Ladrones of Cavite and the Pulajanes of Samar.”

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INDEX

• A
• Agius, Cardinal, [235]
• Aglipay, Father, [109], [237], [262], [312]
• Aglipayanos, [109], [155], [195], [197], [235], [237]
• Agriculture, neglect of, [298], [299]
• Aguinaldo, Emilio, [11], [51]
• “American Ideal,” The, [134], [185]
• American occupation of the Philippines, [88], [156]
• Anting-anting, [69], [204]
• Antipolo, [6]
• Ants, [70]
• Arms of the Philippines, [122]
• Azotea, the, [24]
• B
• Baile, a, or ball, [164], [201], [279]
• Baker, Sir Samuel, [283]
• Bananas, [206]
• Banda de Musica Popular, La, [184], [295]
• Banquet, [329]
• Beds, [45]
• Beggars, [193]
• Benguet, [151], [239]
• Betel-nut, [219]
• Bilibid prison, [135]
• Bolo, or native knife, [232]
• Bombardment of Iloilo, [89]
• Bread, price of, [34]
• Bridge, [132], [149]
• Business houses, [44]
• Butuan, S.S., [110], [152], [157]
• C
• Camarins, [175]
• Camp Josman, [85], [280]
• Canloon volcano, [16]
• Carabaos, [79], [293]
• Card-playing, [132]
• Carnival, [161], [199]
• Carromatas, [63]
• Carter, Mrs, [328]
• Catbologan, [289]
• Cebú, [9]
• Children, [64], [129], [178];
• sale of, [343]
• Chinese immigrants prohibited, [176]
• Chinese New Year, the, [195]
• Chinese servants, [141]
• “Christ’s Funeral,” [196]
• Christmas, [47]
• Cigars, native, [177]
• Climate, [18], [110], [169], [229]
• Clothes, [115]
• Clubs, [57], [161]
• Cock-fighting, [139], [286]
• Cockroaches, [71], [211]
• Cocoanuts, [207], [208], [231]
• Constabulary, [86]
• Crickets (cicadas), [69]
• Currency, [20], [27]
• Customs, tariff and methods, [32], [43], [65], [195], [234], [291], [342]
• D
• Dancing, [57]
• Declaration Day, [270]
• Decoration Day, [245]
• Democracy, American idea of, [144]
• Dingley Tariff, [330]
• Dogs, [128]
• Dress, [53]
• Drought, [172]
• E
• Earthquake, [226]
• Easter, [195]
• Education, [49], [221], [258]
• Eurasians, position of, [62]
• F
• Fashions in Manila, [125]
• Fiestas, [52], [276]
• Filipinos, the, [13], [14], [62], [154], [189], [212], [244], [309]
• Fire trees, [207]
• Fish, [294];
• traps for, [218]
• Flies, [290]
• Flowers, [130]
• Food, [48]
• Friars, Spanish, [50]
• Fruit, [48], [299]
• Fulcher, Mr, Vice-Consul at Cebú, [10]
• Funeral, a, [194]
• Furniture, [30]
• G
• Gibson Girl, the, [123]
• Gobierno, the, [278]
• Government, character of the, [86]
• Graveyards, [164], [296]
• Guimaras, [16], [40], [55], [104], [182], [188], [203]
• H
• Harbour at Manila, [117]
• Hawks, [128]
• Heat, [169], [229], [239], [265]
• Hemp, [11]
• Hijaldo, Monsignore, [236]
• Holidays, [195]
• Hong Kong, [229]
• Hoskyn’s Store, [26]
• Hospital, American, [244]
• Hotels, [6], [337]
• House-building, [189]
• Houses, descriptions of, [20], [23]
• I
• Ice, [167]
• Iglesia Filipina Independiente, La. [See Aglipayanos.]
• Iloilo, [9], [16], [17], [118];
• bombarded, [89]
• Intramuros, the old Spanish Manila, [4], [133]
• J
• Jaro, [17], [42], [90], [186], [236]
• Jewellery, [126]
• Jusi, [54]
• K
• Kai-Fong, S.S., [10], [310], [342]
• Katipunan, the, [11], [51]
• Kitchen, native, [218]
• L
• Ladrones, [152], [288]
• Laguna de Bayo, [2]
• Language of the Filipinos, [157]
• Lazones, [299]
• Letters, [191]
• Lizards, [67]
• Love-birds, [238]
• Luneta, the, [131]
• Luzon, [2], [8], [283]
• M
• Mactan (Maktan), [11]
• Magellan, [11], [162]
• Malacañan, Palace of, [120]
• Malaspina volcano, [16]
• Manila, [2], [117];
• divided into wards, [3];
• new harbour works, [117];
• streets, [125], [138]
• Mindanao, [8]
• Mindoriao, [42]
• Missionaries, [107]
• Molo, [42], [90], [186]
• Mongeese, [240], [256], [262], [286]
• Monsoons, [16], [82], [174], [211], [230], [248]
• Monte, the native card-game, [132], [251]
• Mosquitoes, [72], [193], [243]
• Muelle Loney, [175], [176], [182]
• Music, [52], [162], [184]
• N
• Nagaba, [202], [213], [215], [306]
• Native houses, [203], [205]
• Negritos, [193]
• Negros Island, [16], [56], [266]
• Nipa thatch, [204]
• Nursery garden, a, [129]
• O
• Opera, Italian, [213], [227]
• Orchids, [39], [40], [130]
• P
• Palm Sunday, [193]
• Panay, [17], [182], [289]
• Paper-chase, attempt at a, [260]
• Pasig River, [2], [116]
• Pearls, [294]
• Philippines, arms of the, [122]
• Piña, [54], [268]
• Plaza Libertad, the, at Iloilo, [90]
• Ponies, Philippine, [4]
• Processions, [5], [193], [196], [198], [271], [323]
• Provincial treasurer, the, [168]
• Pulajanes, [288]
• Q
• Quilez, or native carriage, [92], [170]
• R
• Railways, [129]
• Rain, [191]
• Rainbow, U.S.S., [103]
• Rats, [211]
• Reclamation of mud-flats, [178]
• Rents, [24], [141]
• Rice, [35]
• Rigodon dance, the, [59], [123], [279]
• Rizal, Doctor, [50], [162]
• Roman Catholics, [107], [194], [198], [235]
• Roosevelt, Miss Alice, [247], [307], [317], [327]
• S
• St Louis Exhibition, [136]
• Salt-pits, [233]
• Samar Island, [288]
• Sanidad, launch, [158]
• Sanitary control, [242]
• Santa Mesa, [138]
• Schools, [49]
• School teachers, [12]
• Secret Police, [302]
• Servants, [27], [28], [38], [141], [164], [192]
• Shops, [25], [44], [138]
• Snakes, [69]
• Soil, the, [49]
• Spiders, [72]
• Sugar, production of, [104], [266], [328]
• T
• Taft, Mr, [31], [62], [142], [247], [262], [300], [307-336], [339]
• Tagalos, the, [13], [14], [267]
• Theatricals, Filipino, [74], [161]
• Timber, [30]
• Tuba, [207]
• Typhoons, [23], [211]
• V
• Vegetables, [48], [298]
• “Veteran Army of the Philippines,” [273]
• Virgin of Antipolo, the, [6], [109]
• Visaya, [13]
• Volcanoes, [16]
• W
• Wages, [92], [141]
• Washington, George, [162]
• Water plants, [3]
• Water supply, [47], [172]
• Wedding, an English-Mestizo, [127]
• Wild pigs, [206]
• Worcester, Mrs, [140]
• Wright, Mr and Mrs Luke E., [119], [122], [140], [317]
• Y
• Ylang-Ylang tree, [204]
• Z
• Zafiro, S.S., [2]

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