F ILLUSTRATIONS

The Belle of Bongao
Laying a Shore End in a Philippine Coast Town
"Until eventide the summer skies above us slept, as sid the
summer seas below us"
A Philippine Coast Town
Dumaguete
Diving for Articles Thrown from the Ship
"Hard at work establishing an office in the town"
"Two women beating clothes on the rocks of a little stream"
Church and convento, Dumaguete
The Old Fort at Misamis
"The native band serenaded us"
The Lintogup River
A Misamis Belle
Laying Cable from a Native Schooner
A Street in Iligan
Market-day at Iligan
"It was evident that he was a personage of no little importance"
St. Thomas Church, Cebu
Magellan's Chapel, Cebu
Unloading Hemp at Cebu
Grove of Palms near Cebu
Ormoc
Releasing the Buoy From the Cable in a Heavy Sea
Quarters of the Commanding Officer, Zamboanga
Officers' Quarters, Zamboanga
A Street in Zamboanga
Street Scene, Zamboanga--native Bathing-place, Zamboanga
The Pier at Sulu
Natives of Sulu
Moro Houses, Tuli
The Moro School for Boys, Sulu
Chinese, Moro, and Visayan Children, Sulu
Soldiers' Quarters, Bongao
Natives of Bongao
Toolawee
Market-day in a Moro Village
A Group of Moros
A Collection of Moro Weapons
Pasacao

A Woman's Journey Through the Philippines

Chapter I

INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS

Life on a cable-ship would be a lotus-eating dream were it not for the
cable. But the cable, like the Commissariat cam-u-el in Mr. Kipling's
"Oonts," is--

"--a devil an' a ostrich an' a orphan child in one."

Whether we are picking it up, or paying it out; whether it is lying
inert, coil upon coil, in the tanks like some great gorged anaconda,
or gliding along the propelling machinery into some other tank, or
off into the sea at our bow or stern; whether the dynamometer shows
its tension to be great or small; whether we are grappling for it, or
underrunning it; whether it is a shore end to be landed, or a deep-sea
splice to be made, the cable is sure to develop most alarming symptoms,
and some learned doctor must constantly sit in the testing-room,
his finger on the cable's pulse, taking its temperature from time to
time as if it were a fractious child with a bad attack of measles,
the eruption in this case being faults or breaks or leakages or kinks.

The diffic