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Title: Anting-Anting Stories
And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

Author: Sargent Kayme

Release Date: February 26, 2008 [EBook #24690]

Language: English

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ANTING-ANTING STORIES
And Other
STRANGE TALES of the FILIPINOS

By

Sargent Kayme

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company 1901

FOREWORD

The life of the inhabitants of the far-away Eastern islands in which
the people of the United States are now so vitally interested opens to
our literature a new field not less fresh and original than that which
came to us when Mr. Kipling first published his Indian tales. India
had always possessed its wonders and its remarkable types, but they
waited long for adequate expression. No less wonderful and varied
are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new
author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples,
now gives us a collection of simple yet powerful stories which bring
them before us with dramatic vividness.

Pirates, half naked natives, pearls, man-apes, towering volcanoes
about whose summits clouds and unearthly traditions float together,
strange animals and birds, and stranger men, pythons, bejuco ropes
stained with human blood, feathering palm trees now fanned by soft
breezes and now crushed to the ground by tornadoes;--on no mimic
stage was ever a more wonderful scene set for such a company of
actors. That the truly remarkable stories written by Sargent Kayme
do not exaggerate the realities of this strange life can be easily
seen by any one who has read the letters from press correspondents,
our soldiers, or the more formal books of travel.