Adventures in the Philippine Islands

A Family Sketch--My Youthful Days--I Study for the Medical Profession--Obtain a Naval Surgeon's Diploma--Early Voyages--Sail for Manilla in the Cultivateur--Adventurous Habits--...

Description of Manilla--The two Towns--Gaiety of Binondoc--Dances--Gaming--Beauty of the Women--Their Fascinating Costume--Male Costume--The Military Town--Personal Adventures--...

Continued Prosperity in Practice--Attempted Political Revolution--Desperate Street Engagement--Subjugation of the Insurgents--The Emperor of a Day--Dreadful Executions--Illness...

Hunting the Stag--Indian Mode of Chasing the Wild Buffalo: its Ferocity--Dangerous Sport--Capture of a Buffalo--Narrow Escape of an Indian Hunter--Return to Manilla--Injustice o...

Description of my House at Jala-Jala--Storms, Gales, and Earthquakes--Reforming the Banditti--Card-playing--Tagal Cock-fighting--Skirmishes with Robbers--Courage of my Wife--Our...

Visit to Manabo--Conversation with my Guide--Religion of the Tinguians--Their Marriage Ceremony--Funereal Rites--Mode of Warfare--I take leave of the Tinguians--Journey to the I...

I return to Jala-Jala--An Excursion on the Lake--Relempago's Narrative--Re-organisation of my Government--A Letter from my Brother Henry--His Arrival--He joins me in the Managem...

Death of my Brother Robert--Our Party at Jala-Jala--Illness and Last Moments of my Friend Bermigan--Recovery and Departure for France or Lafond--Joachim Balthazard: his Eccentri...

Suppression of War between two Indian Towns--Flourishing Condition of Jala-Jala--Hospitality to Strangers--Field Sports--Bat and Lizard Shooting--Visit to, and Description of, t...

Dumont d'Urville--Rear-Admiral Laplace: Desertion of Sailors from his Ship--I recover them for him--Origin of the Inhabitants of the Philippine Islands--Their General Dispositio...

The Prosperity and Happiness of my Life at Jala-Jala--Destructiveness of the Locusts--Agriculture in the Philippines--My Herds of Oxen, Buffaloes, and Horses--My Wife presents m...

My friend Adolphe Barrot visits me at Jala-Jala--The Bamboo Cane--The Cocoa-Nut Tree--The Banana--Majestic Forests of Gigantic Trees--The Leeches--A Tropical Storm in a Forest--...

and were now attacked with sea-sickness. This was vexatious to me, for I knew from experience that a person so attacked for the first time is altogether incapable of rendering a...

I Determine not again to Separate from my Son--I take him to Manilla--The Effects of the Wound I received among the Ajetas--My Recovery--Kindness of the Spanish and other Inhabi...