CHAPTER VIII

AN HISTORIC TRIP 156

Through the Southern Islands. Establishing Provincial Governments. A Test of Endurance—Filipino Bands—_Banquetes_ and _Bailes_—the _Rigodon_. Moroland. Aguinaldo—Colonel Frederick Funston of “the Suicide Squad.” Zamboanga—Cottabato—the Gulf of Davao—Surigao—A Perilous Journey. Cebu. Sorsogon—A Riot of Hospitality. “The Sacred Torch of Liberty.”