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A WOMAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE PHILIPPINES
On a Cable Ship that Linked the Strange Lands Seen En Route

By

Florence Kimball Russel

Author of "Born to the Blue" etc.



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.


Copyright, 1907
BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)


Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London

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


THE BELLE OF BONGAO



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CONTENTS

 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE BELLE OF BONGAO
LAYING A SHORE END IN A PHILIPPINE COAST TOWN
“UNTIL EVENTIDE THE SUMMER SKIES ABOVE US
        SLEPT, AS DID THE SUMMER SEAS BELOW US”
A PHILIPPINE COAST TOWN
DUMAGUETE
DIVING FOR ARTICLES THROWN FROM THE SHIP
“HARD AT WORK ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE IN THE TOWN” 
“TWO WOMEN BEATING CLOTHES ON THE ROCKS OF A LITTLE STREAM”
CHURCH AND CONVENTO, DUMAGUETE
THE OLD FORT AT MISAMIS
“THE NATIVE BAND SERENADED US” 
THE LINTOGUP RIVER
A MISAMIS BELLE
LAYING CABLE FROM A NATIVE SCHOONER
A STREET IN ILIGAN
MARKET-DAY AT ILIGAN
“IT WAS EVIDENT THAT HE WAS A PERSONAGE
          OF NO LITTLE IMPORTANCE"
ST. THOMAS CHURCH, CEBU
MAGELLAN’S CHAPEL, CEBU
UNLOADING HEMP AT CEBU
GROVE OF PALMS NAER CEBU
ORMOC
RELEASING THE BUOY FROM THE CABLE IN A HEAVY SEA
QUARTERS OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER, ZAMBOANGA
OFFICERS QUARTERS, ZAMBOANGA
A STREET IN ZAMBOANGA
STREET SCENE, ZAMBOANGA - NATIVE BATHING-PLACE, ZAMBOANGA
THE PIER AT SULU
NATIVES OF SULU
MORO HOUSES, TULI
THE MORO SCHOOL FOR BOYS, SULU
CHINESE, MORO, AND VISAYAN CHILDREN, SULU
SOLDIERS’ QUARTERS, BONGAO
NATIVES OF BONGAO
TOOLAWEE
A MORO ORCHESTRA, BONGAO
MARKET-DAY IN A MORO VILLAGE
A GROUP OF MOROS
A COLLECTION OF MORO WEAPONS
PASACAO
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