BY
ALBERT M. REESE
WITH SIXTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
CHICAGO LONDON
THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY
1919
COPYRIGHT BY
THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY
1919
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
| PAGE | ||
| Foreword | 5 | |
| I. | Life in a Philippine Village | 7 |
| II. | A Visit to Tay Tay | 18 |
| III. | The Leper Colony of Culion | 24 |
| IV. | From Zamboanga to Singapore | 29 |
| V. | Singapore, the Melting Pot of the East | 42 |
| VI. | How Rubber Is Made | 53 |
| VII. | Two Chinese Cities | 58 |
| VIII. | Meanderings in Modern Manila | 69 |
| IX. | A Pacific Paradise, Honolulu | 77 |
To most Americans, "going abroad" means visiting Europe. Since Europeantravel will doubtless be unsatisfactory for some years to come, theglobetrotter may well turn his attention to the Far East which, whilenot so accessible, is after all easily reached if the cost be notprohibitive; and the ubiquitous Cook is nearly always on hand to helpthe traveler out of difficulties.
The trip across the Pacific is of course a long one, but the journey isinterrupted, before the end of the first week, by a stop at thattropical paradise, the Hawaiian Islands.
If one should need a complete rest, this seven thousand mile voyage isjust the thing. If he desire he may read or study to good advantage. Ifinclined to sea-sickness there is plenty of time to recover and stillenjoy the greater part of the journey. While the distances betweenstopping places are often great one feels that he can "do" a place inmuch less time than it would take in Europe, where objects of historicand other interest are so crowded together. If interested in the work offoreign missions abundant opportunity offers for their study at firsthand.
It was chiefly during these journeys between stopping places that thefollowing sketches were written, as a sort of diary or log, illustratedby photographs taken by the writer.
On a beautiful morning in May the U. S. Army Transport "Sherman," aftera voyage of twenty-eight days from San Francisco, tied up at the dock inManila. The r