A WOMAN’S JOURNEY
THROUGH
THE PHILIPPINES
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