How We Dressed for $2.50 Frontispiece Our Office and the Punkah under which the Old Salts Sat for Free Sea Breezes 8 Plaza de Cervantes, Foreign Business Quarter 14 Puente de España. Manila's Main Highway Across the Pasig 20 The Busy Pasig, from the Puente de España 26 A Philippine Sleeping-machine 32 The English Club on the Banks of the Pasig 40 The Bull and Tiger Fight--Opening Exercises 46 Suburb of Santa Mesa 54 Our Destination was a Town Called Pagsanjan at the Foot of a Range of Mountains 60 The Rapids in the Gorges of Pagsanjan 66 Cocoanut Rafts on the Pasig, Drifting down to Manila 72 The Little Native School under the Big Mango-tree 78 Calzada de San Miguel 84 A Native Village Up Country 90 A "Chow" Shop on a Street Corner 98 Puentes de Ayala, which Help two of Manila's Suburbs to Shake Hands Across the Pasig 106 Calzada de San Sebastian 114 Ploughing in the Rice-fields with the Carabao 122 Types of True Filipinos Waiting to Call Themselves Americans 130 On the Banks of the Enchanted Lake 138 In the Narrow Streets of Old Manila. A Procession 144 A Citizen from the Interior 152 How the World's Supply of Manila Hemp is Cleaned 160 Moro Chiefs from Mindanao 168 Manila Fruit-girls in a Street-Corner Attitude 176 A Typical "Nipa" House 184 The Little Flower-girl at the Opera 192 Rapid Transit in the Suburbs of Manila 202 The Fourth of July, '95. Execution by the Garrote 210 Paseo de la Luneta 220 Captain Tayler, the Genial Skipper of the Esmeralda 226 Map of Philippines At End of Volume INTRODUCTION