A Series of Typhoons--A Chinese Feast-day--A Bank-holiday Excursion--Lost in the Mist--Los Baños--The "Enchanted Lake"--Six Dollars for a Human Life--A Religious Procession--Celebration of the Expulsion of the Chinese--Bicycle Races and Fireworks, Page 137 VIII A Trip to the South--Contents of the "Puchero"--Romblon--Cebu, the Southern Hemp-centre--Places Touched At--A Rich Indian at Camiguin--Tall Trees--Primitive Hemp-cleaners--A New Volcano--Mindanao Island--Moro Trophies--Iligan--Iloilo--Back Again at Manila, Page 149 IX Club-house Chaff--Christmas Customs and Ceremonies--New Year's Calls--A Dance at the English Club--The Royal Exposition of the Philippines--Fireworks on the King's Fête Day--Electric Lights and the Natives--The Manila Observatory--A Hospitable Governor--The Convent at Antipolo, Page 173 X Exacting Harbor Regulations--The Eleanor takes French Leave--Loss of the Gravina--Something about the Native Ladies--Ways of Native Servants--A Sculptor who was a Dentist--Across the Bay to Orani--Children in Plenty--A Public Execution by the Garrote, Page 195 XI Lottery Chances and Mischances--An American Cigarette-making Machine and its Fate--Closing up Business--How the Foreigner Feels Toward Life in Manila--Why the English and Germans Return--Restlessness among the Natives--Their Persecution--Departure and Farewell, Page 213 CONCLUSION Page 230 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Facing page