Illustrations

  1. [Map of Filipinia], Frontispiece
  2. Facing Page
  3. [In Old Manila], 8
  4. [All About the Town], 26
  5. [On Summer Seas], 68
  6. [Negrito Pigmy Vagrants], 98
  7. [Our Latest Citizens], 120
  8. [In a Visayan Village], 128
  9. [A Carabao], 144
  10. [The Oldest Cathedral of Manila], 238
  11. [General Rufino in Moro Country], 256
  12. [Captain Isidro Rillas with the Datto], 256
  13. [A Deserted Moro Shack], 274
  14. [Moro Weapons (Spear and Dirk)], 274

In Old Manila (River Opposite Custom-House)

Chapter I.

In Old Manila.

As the big white transport comes to anchor three miles out in the green waters of Manila Bay, a fleet of launches races out to meet the messenger from the Far West. The customs officers in their blue uniforms, the medical inspectors, and the visitors in white duck suits and panama hats, taking their ease upon the launches without the slightest sign of curiosity, give one his first impressions of the Oriental life—the white man’s easy-going life in the Far East. But the ideas of the newcomer are to undergo a change after his first few days on shore, when he takes up the grind, and realizes that his face is getting pasty—that the cool veranda and the drive on the Luneta do not constitute the entire program, even in Manila.