_The Author_ _Frontispiece_ _Taal Volcano_ _Facing_ 16 _Mavon Volcano_ 16 _Effect of the Hurricane of September 26, 1905_ 23 _A Negrito Family_ 120 _An Igorrote Type (Luzon)_ 128 _A Pagan Type (Mindanao)_ 128 _A Tagalog Girl_ 128 _Moro Weapons_ 132 _A Scene in the Moro Country_ 148 _Zamboanga Fortress ("Fuerza del Pilar")_ 148 _A Visayan Girl_ 164 _A Tagalog Girl_ 164 _A Visayan Planter_ 172 _A Chinese Half-caste_ 172 _A Tagalog Milkwoman_ 182 _A Tagalog Townsman_ 182 _Middle-class Tagalog Natives_ 196 _A Spanish-Mexican Galleon_ 244 _A Canoe_ 244 _A Casco (Sailing-barge)_ 244 _A Prahu (Sailing-canoe)_ 244 _A Sugar-estate House, Southern Philippines_ 275 _Shipping Hemp in the Provinces_ 288 _Botanical Specimen_ 321 _Botanical Specimen_ 322 _Botanical Specimen_ _Facing_ 323 _Botanical Specimen_ 324 _The Old Walls of Manila City_ 344 _La Escolta_ in the Business Quarter of Manila 347 _A Riverside Washing-scene_ 359 _Dr. Jose Rizal_ 381 _Don Felipe Agoncillo_ 381 _General Emilio Aguinaldo_ 396 _Don Pedro a Paterno_ 396 _Admiral Patricio Montojo_ 430 _Admiral George Dewey_ 430 _General Basilio Augusti_ 430 _Maj.-General Wesley Merritt_ 430 _Archbishop Bernardino Nozaleda_ 430 _Tagalog Bowie-knives and Weapons_ 485 _A Pandita (Mahometan Priest)_ 534 _Rajahmudah Datto Mandi and Wife_ 534 _Santa Cruz Church (Manila Suburb)_ 559 _Panglima Hassan (of Sulu)_ 584 _A Mindanao Datto and Suite_ 584 _The Rt. Rev. Bishop Gregorio Aglipay_ 604 _A Roadside Scene in Bulacan Province_ 627 _Maps_ _The Province of Cavite_ 371 _Map of the Archipelago_ _at the end_ Introduction "Nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice." _Othello_, Act V., Sc. 2. During the three centuries and a quarter of more or less effective Spanish dominion, this Archipelago never ranked above the most primitive of colonial possessions.