A Woman's Journey through the Philippines: On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route

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 A Woman’s Journey Through…