Chapter I: Front Matter

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
II. Dumaguete
III. Misamis
IV. Iligan
V. Cagavan
VI. Cebu
VII. Zamboanga
VIII. Sulu
IX. Bongao
X. Tampakan and the Home Stretch

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 sid 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 near 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
Market-day in a Moro Village
A Group of Moros
A Collection of Moro Weapons
Pasacao

A Woman's Journey Through the Philippines