Avaust 25, 1914] A FascicLE or Norta Aqusan Figs 2383 
a few trees along the river banks in the neighborhood of Butuan. 
My return to Manila was accompanied with considerable 
trouble and loss of time. It took me over a week to have 
my supplies and material transported from  Bayabas to 
Cabadbaran. At Cabadbaran I had to wait nearly three 
weeks before a steamer came along for Butuan even. At Bu- 
tuan I transferred to another steamer and after a week's 
waiting I succeeded in reaching Mambajao on Camiguin 
Island. Here I waited two weeks for a steamer to Cebu. 
At Cebu after five days waiting I boarded a vessel for 
Manila. Upon my arrival in Manila I was pretty well exhaust- 
ed, yet satisfied that all went well with me and my collection. 
The irregular steamer service was due to the first 
destructive typhoon which sank a dozen or more of local 
freight steamers and crippled others, and which did a great 
deal of damage all over the southern Visayan region. The 
town of Malitbog, Leyte had every house in it either thrown 
down or unroofed. In the extensive hemp fields on Camiguin 
Island, one third of the hemp stalks were broken down. 
Floods washed out roads and bridges, and the violent high 
tides damaged wharís. Bohol with its extensive coconut 
groves appeared little damaged. The light material buildings of 
the town of Cebu was one mass of debris. The island of 
Cebu, especially its northern portion is the poorest in the 
Philippines, and is therefore sometimes called the graveyard 
island, yet the town of Cebu does a big volume of business. 
The foreign commercial firms have splendid warehouses and the 
government built a fine whart for the city a few years ago. 
It is fed by the rich country of all northern Mindanao, Bohol, 
southwestern Leyte and practically all of Negros Oriental. 
I am frequently asked how I manage about my food. 
Certain necessary cooking utensils with some canned provi- 
sions always accompany me, although I draw on the 
local country for most of my needs. One must adapt himself 
to the conditions as crude and even repugnant as they may 
be. The sudden change from the daily bread to none at 
all is sometimes very hard, but soon it is a forgotten de- 
Sire. Never before have I taken a servant with me from Ma- 
nila, neither do I need interpreters, but my greatest trouble 
in the field is the unwillingness on the part of the natives 
