2362 LEAFLETS OF PAILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 112 
was hot and the town looked desolate to me. After 
my luggage was housed in a Chinese store, I began to re- 
connoiter the country for trails into the interior up to the 
base of some high mountain. There were no trails, only 
bancas on the Tubay river to Lake Muinit, and of course, 
those plying up and down the seacoast. As it took a few days 
to row up to Lake Mainit and the price being prohibitive 
for me, and since I could not be assured of a working base 
I did not go. Instead, I wandered southward along the 
coast to Cabadbaran. From this town the high mountains 
appeared just as near, and as it with its surrounding country 
is five times the size as that of Tubay and vicinity, [ thought 
best to take my chances from Cabadbaran. The inhabitants 
of Tubay are mostly commereial Chinese and they treated 
me most hospitably. They provided baneas for me, had all 
my botanieal supplies put into them, and after refusing pay 
for my stay with them they filled my coat pockets with 
crackers and wished me a safe arrival at Cabadbaran. The 
sea was placid and after a few hours poling along the coast 
line we arrived at Cabadbaran. 
Originally the Chinese were more numerous in Cabad- 
baran where they were persecuted by the natives, their stores 
being burned and even their lives were threatened. So 
they moved to Tubay for safety. Even at that place only 
recently a few of their stores were burned by their enemy. 
There is a feudal relation between the Chinese and Filip- 
inos in this whole section of the country, and yet if the 
property of the Chinaman is not destroyed and his life 
spared, he will succeed in his commercial relation with 
them. 
At Cabadbaran I mad? myself at home with Mr. Clyde Mac- 
Millan, the supervising teacher. The municipal authorities were 
accommodating and allowed me to store my outfit in their build- 
ing. In this town there was a Swiss planter by the name of Mr. 
Sanch who gave me a great deal of information of the valley 
country southward toward Butuan. He was the rodd master 
at the Cabadbaran end of road construction between “Butuan 
and this town. I have been told that Surigao and Agusan 
Provinces contemplate the ultimate construction of a good 
Wagon road from the capitol of Agusan Province diagonally 
