The Useful Buffalo, and Other Domestic Animals--Reptiles, Bats, and Insects--A Field for the Sportsman--The Locust Scourge--The Chief Nuisances: Mosquitoes and Ants 273-283 Struggle of the Filipinos for Liberty. Early Insurrections Against the Spaniards--The Burgos Revolt--The Present Rebellion--The Katipunan--The Black Hole of Manila--The Forbearance of the Natives--The Rebel Army--The Tagál Republic Proclaimed--Treachery of the Spaniards--Dr José Rizal and his wife Josephine--Execution of Rizal--The Philippine Joan of Arc--Rizal's Farewell Poem--Aguinaldo Confers with Admiral Dewey--Aguinaldo as Dictator: His Proclamations--Triumphant Progress of the Rebels--The Spaniards Fortify Manila--Sketch of Aguinaldo 284-309 Dewey at Manila. The White Squadron--Declaration of War, and Journey to the Philippines--Luzon Sighted, and Preparations for Battle--The Fleet Sails by Corregidor--First Shot of the War--The Spanish Fleet is Sighted--Dewey Attacks the Enemy--The Fate of the Reina Cristina--The Commodore Pipes all Hands to Breakfast--The Americans Renew the Battle--The Yankees are Victorious 310-325 The American Occupation. Merritt and the Expedition--The Battle of Malate--Capture of Manila--Capitulation of the Philippines--Awaiting the Peace Commission--Instructions to Merritt 326-342 INTRODUCTION. The absolute present necessity for accurate information by the people of the United States respecting the Philippines has been met in no more satisfactory manner than by this book. The author, Mr. Ramon Reyes Lala, is a Filipino and was born in Manila. His collegiate education was completed in England and Switzerland. A long sojourn in Europe has instructed him in European thought, tendencies, and methods. He has lived in the United States for many years, and has become, by naturalization, a citizen of this country. He collected the historical material for this work largely from the Spanish archives in Manila before the last rising of the people of Luzon in rebellion against Spain. His mastery of the English language is that of the thorough scholar. His qualifications for his work are those of the student, trained by many studies. He possesses by nativity the gift, incommunicable to any alien, of giving a true color and duly proportioned form to his delineations of his own people. These endowments have enabled him to produce a work of striking and permanent value.