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A Woman S Journey Through The Philippines On A Cable Ship That

Whether we are picking it up, or paying it out; whether it is lying inert, coil upon coil, in the tanks like some great gorged anaconda, or gliding along the propelling machinery into some other tank, or off into the sea at our bow or stern; whether the dynamometer shows its t...

Chapters

3. Chapter 3

Long before reaching Misamis the old gray fort at the entrance of the town was picked out by some one looking through the telescope, and many were the theories concerning it. At...

7. Chapter 7

Zamboanga! The very name brings back our first daylight glimpse of Mindanao's principal town--an adorable water-colour sketch, what with the soft, deep blue of sky and sea, the...

6. Chapter 6

Early the next morning we sailed into Cebu harbour, and found it alive with ships of all sorts and conditions. From the sea there is nothing picturesque about the town. It is a...

10. Chapter 10

Our last day in Bongao the Governor secured a little pearling launch, the _Hilda_, and took several of the _Burnside_ people on a jaunt to the island of Siminor, as it is writte...

2. Chapter 2

Our first stopping place after a two days' trip from Manila was Dumaguete, on the southeast corner of the island of Negros. We reached there at seven o'clock on Christmas mornin...

9. Chapter 9

Despite the fact of its remoteness from civilization, or perhaps because of it, we found Bongao most attractive. Situated on a dot of an island belonging to the Tawi Tawi group,...

8. Chapter 8

That popular opera "The Sultan of Sulu" has made the island of Sulu one of the most-talked-of places on the map of our new possessions, but in the Philippines it is rarely calle...

1. Chapter 1

Whether we are picking it up, or paying it out; whether it is lying inert, coil upon coil, in the tanks like some great gorged anaconda, or gliding along the propelling machiner...

4. Chapter 4

Our first glimpse of Iligan was not assuring, as only the Headquarters Building could be seen from the harbour, and in front of it, reaching to the left for some distance, stood...

5. Chapter 5

After Dumaguete, Misamis, and Iligan, the harbour of Cagayan presented a truly metropolitan appearance, what with a transport, a coasting vessel, and a navy gunboat, all in at t...