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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Adventures in the Philippine Islands, by Paul P. de La Gironiere This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Adventures in the Philippine Islands Author: Paul P. de La Gironiere Release Date: October 27, 2009 [EBook #30347] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ADVENTURES IN THE PHILIPPINES *** Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Digital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries.) Adventures in the Philippine Islands. Translated from the French of Paul P. de la Gironiere, Chevalier of the Order of the Legion of Honour. Revised and extended by the author, Expressly for this edition. London: Charles H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row. PREFACE. On hearing a recital of some adventures which had occurred to me during my long voyages, many of my friends have frequently begged of me to publish a narrative of them, which might perhaps be interesting. "Nothing can be more easy for you," they said, "as you have always kept a journal since your departure from France." I hesitated, however, to follow their advice, or to yield to their wishes, when I was one day surprised to see my name in one of the feuilletons in the "Constitutionnel." M. Alexandre Dumas was publishing, under the title of "The Thousand-and-One Phantoms," a romance, one of the principal personages of which, in a voyage to the Philippine Islands, must have known me when I was residing at Jala-Jala, in the colony that I founded there. It must be evident that the lively romancist has ranked me in the category of his Thousand-and-One Phantoms; but, to prove to the public that I am really in existence, I have resolved to take up the pen, under an impression, that facts of the most scrupulous veracity, and which can be attested by some hundreds of persons, might
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