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(Photograph No. 6.) 



These boats are poled by the natives, who Hve with their 

 whole families in a little cubby-hole on the stern. The boats 

 are covered with bamboo matting along the sides and half way 

 down to the water a bamboo platform is built, about i8 inches 

 wide, on which the men walk from bow to stern and push the 

 boat with poles. There were hundreds of these boats to be 

 seen, and thousands of people were living upon them. The 

 government hires them at $3.00, Mexican, per day, for the boat 

 with the crew, men, women, and children thrown in. 



Passing up by the Lunetta and the walled city, we entered 

 the Passig River. It would be difficult to find a busier place. 

 The commerce of the place is enormous. I counted two ocean 

 steamers at the wharves in one little contracted spot, and hun- 

 dreds of tugs, barges, cascoes, and small boats. Manila lies at 

 the southern end of an enormous bay, and a few miles east of 

 it is the Laguna, a large fresh-water lake, connected with it by 

 the Passig River. The land for miles around is almost perfectly 

 fiat, having a great depth of soil, very rich, densely populated, 

 and producing enormously of rice and sugar. 



Manila is a city of about 250,000 people. In fact it is really 

 two cities, one city within and the other city without the walls. 

 The Spaniards long ago built regular walls, moats, draw- 

 bridges, and forts, and must have spent millions in this work. 

 Within the walls are the government buildings and official resi- 

 dences, and some business as well as residence buildings, but 

 the high walls towering up for about 25 feet shut off the sea 

 breezes, and make it a very hot place. Outside is an area of 

 open ground, used for gun ranges, and then comes the modern 

 city, stretching along the bay and up both sides of the Passig 

 River, and around to the bay shore to the south and west of the 

 walled city. This latter section is called the Lunetta, and here 

 the bands play at night and all Manila turns out for a drive and 

 relief in the sea breezes from the scalding heat of the day. 



(Photograph No. 7.) 



We put up at the Hotel Orienta. It was said to be the best, 

 but if so I do not know what the others can be. The beds, like 

 all here, are made of splendidly carved native mahogany, with 

 woven bamboo, like the cane seat of a chair, in place of a mat- 

 tress. On this is a piece of grass cloth, and a sheet over all. 

 Thev are as hard as a board, and it would seem as though the 



