AucustT 25, 1914] A FascicLE or NorTH AGUSAN Fics 2361 
wide. The weave is single and at right angles. They are never 
colored and are generally used for utility purposes. Many of 
the sails of the numerous native sailboats plying between Cebu, 
Mindanao and Leyte are made of this material. 
Judging by the many rich well established Chinese houses 
Surigao is quite a commercial port, and the Surigao Peninsula 
is a rich land when compared with the small percentage 
of agricultural lands brought under productive cultivation. 
The Chinese operate one or more steamship lines up and down 
both coasts and around the other islands even down to 
- Camiguin and up to southern Leyte, around Bohol to Cebu. 
I have seen one of those freight steamers fully loaded 
with hemp, and there was hardly room left for the 
. captain to stand and the engine to work. These intelligent 
and thrifty people have the best stores, buy up all kinds of 
crude material which the country produces and supply the 
local needs. One of the Chinese took me through his ex- 
tensive bakery, and all their assorted crackers and biscuits 
had the firm name on them. All over these Philippine Is- 
lands I have met these peaceful commercial Chinese, and 
although representing the greater share of business they have 
no voice in the government. 
As the Scout was steaming through Surigao Strait, 
the most southern portion of Leyte or Panaon island was 
clearly seen. It has a high range of mountains, possibly 4000 
feet high, throughout its whole length. This range is very 
steep and in places it appeared almost precipitous, the bleak 
and gullied rocky flanks extending nearly to the seacoast. 
The northern end of Agusan Province southward along 
the coast the geology, judging from the vegetation alone, 
presented an entirely different aspect. Here is a low worndown 
range which has a series of conical mountains, the highest 
of which no doubt extends over 3000 feet in elevation. This 
entire range is heavily forested from the coast. Here and 
there new clearings were just being made along the fertile 
little flats. Quite near Tubay the southernmost point of 
this coastal range terminates. 
Having paid for my fare and luggage, besides a bill 
for the steamer to come to a brief halt long enough to unload 
me on the sand beach, I was landed at Tubay. The day 
