A Woman's Journey Through the Philippines on a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen en RouteL. C. Page, 1907 - 260 páginas |
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afternoon American anchor arms ashore attired Balambing balbriggan bamboo beach beauty blue boat Bongao buoy Burnside cable cable-ship Cagayan called camisa Cebu Christmas church clothes coloured convento coral dance dark Datto Mandi delight despite dressed Dumaguete durian eyes face feet Filipino girl gold green Guinayangan hand harbour head Iligan interest island laid land launch laying LIBRARY light Liloan Lintogup looking Manila medan Mindanao Misamis Mohammedan morning Moro women natives night nipa shacks o'clock officers Oslob overboard Pasacao Philippine picturesque pirates presidente pretty quarter-deck rifle sailed Santo Niño sarongs seemed seen ship ship's shore end side Signal Corps slave smiled soldiers sound Spanish splice stared stood strange Sultan Sulu sure Tampakan tank Tawi Tawi teeth tion told Toolawee town trench trip tropical Tukuran turban turn UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA village Visayan watched wife wonderful young Zamboanga
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Página 45 - ... that so much could have been accomplished in so short a time...
Página 263 - The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down from afar — Down to the dark, the utter dark, where the blind white seasnakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, On the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep.
Página 263 - Or the great gray level plains of ooze where the shellburred cables creep. Here in the womb of the world — here on the tie-ribs of earth Words, and the words of men, flicker and flutter and beat — Warning, sorrow and gain, salutation and mirth — For a Power troubles the Still that has neither voice nor feet.
Página 196 - As he was king of the world, Christ came to his house to visit him. Mohamoud, jealous of him, told him to prove his power by " divining " what he had in a certain room, where, in fact, were his grandchildren. Christ replied that he had no wish to prove his power, and would not " divine " (divinar), Mohamoud then vowed that if he did not answer correctly, he should pay for it with his life. Christ responded, " You have two animals in there, different from anything else in the world.
Página 196 - Moros are forbidden to tell this story to infidels, because it shows that Christ outwitted their great prophet. When my informant sobered up and realized what he had done, he hung around day after day beseeching me not to let any one know what he had told me, from which...
Página 227 - Papa does not understand my people as I do. They are all bad. When we meet them do not ask them to lay down their arms, for they will come back and get them, and probably attack us; just shoot as many of them as you can. You can take their weapons and clothing, while I will cut off their heads, shave their eyebrows, show them to Papa, and 'claim reward for killing juramentados. Toolawee never really forgave us for refusing to enter into partnership with him on this very liberal basis. "Just before...
Página 228 - He explained that he never fired at the people in a canoe, but shot holes in the boat itself, so that it would fill with water. The bamboo outriggers with which all Philippine boats are provided would serve to keep it from actually sinking, and the occupants, being up to their chins in water, could easily be despatched with the barong, thus economizing ammunition ; and he added, " My rifle makes but a small hole in one side of a canoe, Senor, while yours would make a much larger one, and the ball...
Página 116 - Indeed, it would be hard to imagine a more uninteresting, bedraggled, down-at-the-heel place than this. Aside from the old churches and conventos, a few pretty drives, and a wonderful view from the top of the fort, we found nothing to like about it, for the natives were sullen and unfriendly, while the town itself was not wild or barbaric enough to be interesting, nor yet civilized enough for comfort.
Página 227 - Yes, we have had some experience." " You say that you wish to get samples of the clothing and arms of my people for your collection ?
Página 78 - You are my daughter," laughed the senora, happily, " my white daughter. The abaca is yours — coarse stuff that it is," and she reached up timidly and kissed me, first on one cheek and then on the other, the joy of giving in her dear old eyes.