HINTS TO EXPLORERS AND PROSPECTORS 

 COVERING TRAVEL IN THE PHILIPPINES 



BY 



WARREN D. SMITH. 



1. INTRODUCTION. 



This article has been prepared for the ""Practical Hints to Scientific 

 Travellers" edited by Prof. Dr. H. A. Brouwer of Delft, Holland, 

 which is intended to furnish foreigners, and particularly white men, 

 with reliable information concerning the best and easiest ways of 

 carrying on general exploration in foreign countries. This chapter 

 discusses conditions affecting travel in the Philippines. 



The writer has spent ten years in geological and mining work 

 in this archipelago and the suggestions made herein are the results 

 of his own experience supplemented by many valuable suggestions 

 received from his many acquaintances among prospectors and mining 

 men throughout the islands. To Messrs Merrill Banks, Haughwout, 

 Me Gregor, Lee and Schenck, his colleagues on the Staff of the 

 Bureau of Science '), Manila, who have given him valuable sugges- 

 tions for this article he also wishes to make acknowledgment. 



The need for information of this character is easily recognized 

 when it is recalled that one visitor to our shores, who posed as an 

 engineer, insisted on wearing rubber boots in his field work (he 

 had a serious time with infected feet). Another man, a high official 

 of a past administration insisted on black wool Prince Alberts for 

 outdoor functions of state at high noon! Some, either through pig- 

 headedness or ignorance, have undergone untold suffering from 

 diseases and others have been killed, all of which might have been 



1) The reader is referred to the 18 volumes of the Phil. Journ. of Science 

 for scientific papers relating his particular field. 



