I may say that I have derived great benefit from the hot-springs of Los Baños on the lake, and greatly regretted that I could not remain at the extraordinary vapour baths of Tibi near Tabaco. CHAPTER XVII. MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES. Cigars and cigarettes--Textiles--Cotton--Ahacá--Júsi--Rengue--Nipis --Saguran--Sinamáy--Guingon--Silk handkerchiefs--Piña--Cordage-- Bayones--Esteras--Baskets--Lager beer--Alcohol--Wood oils and resins--Essence of Ylang-ilang--Salt--Bricks--Tiles--Cooking-pots-- Pilones--Ollas--Embroidery--Goldsmiths' and silversmiths' work-- Salacots--Cocoa-nut oil--Saddles and harness--Carromatas--Carriages --Schooners--Launches--Lorchas--Cascos--Pontines--Bangcas--Engines and boilers--Furniture--Fireworks--Lanterns--Brass Castings--Fish breeding--Drying sugar--Baling hemp--Repacking wet sugar--Packing tobacco and cigars--Oppressive tax on industries--Great future for manufactures--Abundant labour--Exceptional intelligence. The manufactures of the Philippines, such as they are, have been mentioned when describing the different tribes or peoples and only a summary is necessary here. The making of cigars and cigarettes employs probably 30,000 people in the Province of Manila, the vast majority being women. But the best cigars are made by men who have been trained under skilled operatives brought from Havana. A vast improvement has taken place since the Government monopoly has been abolished, and now the Manila cigars are as well-made and are put up in as tastefully decorated boxes as the Havanas. Cigarettes are now largely made by machines; the Compañia de Tabacos de Filipinas having rows of them in their factories. Textiles are made in hand-looms all over the Archipelago by the women in their spare time. But in certain Provinces large numbers of women are regularly employed at the loom-working for those who make a business of it. In Ilocos and Union very excellent coverlets, sheets, serviettes, handkerchiefs and towels are woven from cotton, as well as the fabrics called abacá, júsi or rengue, nipis, saguran, sinamay and guingon. This last is very suitable for military or naval uniforms; it is a blue cotton cloth similar to what sailors call dungaree. In some of the towns of Pampanga and Bulacan, notably in Baliúag where the people are specially clever and industrious, excellent silk handkerchiefs are woven. In Camarines and Albay the fabrics of abacá are more commonly woven, and in Cebú the women are accustomed to work at the loom.