The Crater of Taal Volcano 764 A Bit of the Pagsanjan Gorge 772 A Giant Tree Fern 780 Scene on a Bird Island 788 A Day's Catch 796 After the Hunt 804 Typical Scene at the Edge of a Hardwood Forest 812 A Typical Forest Scene 820 Old-style Road across Lowlands 826 New-style Road across Lowlands 826 Typical Old-style Country Road 836 Typical New-style Country Road 836 A Canga, or Carabao Sledge 844 A New-style Cart, with Broad-tired Wheels, which does not injure the Roads 844 Road Destroyers at Work 852 An Old-style Culvert 858 The Old Way of Crossing a River 868 The New Way of Crossing a River 868 A Typical Old-style Bridge 878 A Typical Reënforced Concrete Bridge 878 A Collapsible Bridge 886 Map: Manila, the Future Distributing Centre for the Far East 888 Preparing Rice Land for Planting 892 Planting Rice 892 A Three-year-old Coffee Bush 902 A Ceara Rubber Tree 906 A Typical Cocoanut Grove 918 A Typical Filipino Town 922 A Typical Group of Filipinos 930 A Typical Spanish Mestiza 938 A Strange Couple 946 A Member of the Cabaruan Trinity 946 A Typical Old-style Provincial Government Building 962 A Modern Provincial Government Building 962 A Refuge from the Moros 968 A Possible Office-holder 972 THE PHILIPPINES PAST AND PRESENT CHAPTER XIX EDUCATION No work accomplished since the American occupation is of more fundamental and far-reaching importance than that of the Bureau of Education. In order to appreciate it one must gain some familiarity with the conditions which prevailed in Spanish times.