History and description of the picturesque Philippines, with entertaining accounts of the people and their modes of living, customs, industries, climate and present conditions

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Title:: History and description of the picturesque Philippines, with entertaining accounts of the people and their modes of living, customs, industries, climate and present conditions
Collection:: Southeast Asia Visions
Creator:: Hannaford, Ebenezer
Date:: 1900
Extent:: 148 600dpi JPEG page images
Publisher:: The Crowell and Kirkpatrick co
Publication Place:: Springfield, O
Format:: Book
Contents:: Front Matter
The Picturesque Philippines
Magellan in the Philippines
Legaspi and the Spanish Conquest
Where are the Philippines?
Area Coasts Formation and Seas
Mountains and Volcanoes
Philippine Earthquakes
Seasons and Climate
Monsoons and Typhoons
Population and Peoples
The Little Negro Aborigines
The Igorrotes of Luzon ;
The Head hunters and Tinguianes ;
The Philippine Malays
Our Conundrum : The Filipino
The Filipino's Spanish Tutoring
Music and Superstitions
A Land of Women's Rights
Philippine Dwellings
Dress Manners and Customs
A Filipino Wedding
Philippine Housekeeping
Village Life;
The Village Fiesta
Manila the Emporium
The Bay and Port of Manila
The Walled City
Binondo and New Manila
Streets Police Hotels and Street cars
Population: Mestizoes and Creoles
John Chinaman Millionaire and Pariah
Colleges Observatory and Lepers' Hospital
Waterworks and Cigar factories
Native and Other Markets
Newspapers and Fiestas
Operas and Garrotings
The Sport of Cock fighting
Along the Streets of Manila
Foreigners' Life in Manila
The Suburbs of Manila
Cavite and the Navy yard
Laguna de Bay and the Lake Country
The Church and Its Archbishop
The Religious Orders
Native Hatred for the Friars
Spanish Administrative Methods
Other Time honored Spanish Ways
Aguinaldo and the Insurrection of 1896
Luzon. Physical Features Bandits and Railway
Subig Bay Mindoro and Palawan
The Visayas: Panay and Iloilo
Negros Cebu Leyte and Samar
Sulu Pearl-fisheries: The Moros
Mindanao and the Sulus
Products Trade and Currency Animal Life
The Filipino Insurrection
Establishing Municipal Governments and Schools

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