to dedicate this book to many people,--to that wonderful brown
baby Primitivo, who has written that he "loves me the most best of
all the world;" to "Fresno Bill," that charter member of the Great
White Tribe, with whom I have knocked around from Zamboanga to Vigan;
or to that coterie of college men in old Manila who extended me so
many courtesies while I was there. I send them all my compliments
from the homeland, and ask the reader, if he will, to do likewise.

Cincinnati, Ohio,

_December, 1903._

Contents

Chapter Page

I. In Old Manila, 9
II. All About the Town, 23
III. The White Man's Life, 36
IV. Around the Provinces, 50
V. On Summer Seas, 67
VI. Among the Pagan Tribes, 80
VII. A Lost Tribe and the Servants of
Mohammed, 97
VIII. In a Visayan Village, 121
IX. The "Brownies" of the Philippines, 142
X. Christmas in Filipinia, 150
XI. In a Visayan Home, 163
XII. Leaves from a Note-book, 181
1. Skim Organizes the Constabulary, 181
2. Last Days at Oroquieta, 195

XIII. In Camp and Barracks with the Officers
and Soldiers of the Philippines, 223

XIV. Padre Pedro, Recoleto Priest.--The
Routine of a Friar in the Philippines, 236
XV. General Rufino in the Moro Country, 254
XVI. On the Iligan-Marahui Road, 270
XVII. The Filipino at Play, 280
XVIII. Visayan Ethics and Philosophy, 292

Illustrations

Map of Filipinia, Frontispiece
Facing Page
In Old Manila, 8
All About the Town, 26
On Summer Seas, 68
Negrito Pigmy Vagrants, 98
Our Latest Citizens, 120
In a Visayan Village, 128