![]() ![]() ![]() His first impressions of the Oriental life-the white man’s easy-going life in the Far East. In white duck suits and panama hats, taking their ease upon the launches without the slightest sign of curiosity, give one The customs officers in their blue uniforms, the medical inspectors, and the visitors I send them all my compliments from the homeland, and ask the reader, if he will, to do likewise.Īs the big white transport comes to anchor three miles out in the green waters of Manila Bay, a fleet of launches races out Most best of all the world ” to “Fresno Bill,” that charter member of the Great White Tribe, with whom I have knocked aroundįrom Zamboanga to Vigan or to that coterie of college men in old Manila who extended me so many courtesies while I was there. I ought to dedicate this book to many people,-to that wonderful brown baby Primitivo, who has written that he “loves me the Reader shall attend the Oroquieta Ball with Maraquita and Don Julian, or, if he likes, with “Foxy Grandpa” and “The Arizona We will peep through the hedge together as the savages and pagans execute their grotesque dances or perform their sacrifices to the god of the volcano. Representatives of races brown and black. I promise that the reader shall be introduced to all the most important members of the Great White Tribe, as well as to the ![]() Will enable the reader to survey the islands as a great bird hovering above might do-will make the map of Filipinia “look The few historical and geographicalĪllusions made have been selected only as they were significant, explanatory, picturesque. The following pages are the record of my own impressions and experiences in the Philippines. Extending from the Babuyanes off Luzon, to Tawi-Tawi and Sibutu off theĬoast of Borneo, the Great White Tribe has made its presence felt throughout the archipelago. Now scattered through the greater part of Filipinia. The legendary white tribe that is said to wander in the mountains of Mindoro is but distantly related to the Great White Tribe ![]()
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