AMATEUR PHOTO Br F. CiEWING. 



NO. 2. WAITING TO BE SHOT WITH CAMERA AND RIFLE. 



returning board, and so I assume I should "That must 'a' been a blamed accommo- 

 not; but as old j£ph Johnson would say, datin' bar." — Editor. 



ONE WAY TO GET INFORMATION. 



Our rainy season will start in about the 

 end of this month, and then life will be 

 miserable for us. 



Were you ever in the tropics? Did you 

 ever get caught in a thunder-storm in the 

 tropics? Or rather, I should call it an 

 electrical storm. It is generally one con- 

 tinuous display of fireworks, and is a 

 grand sight. Then, when the sun makes 

 its appearance, it is like roasting men 

 alive. 



The queerest thing I have seen since 

 coming here, was a hail storm which oc- 

 curred a few days ago. The afternoon 

 had been hot as a furnace, when sud- 

 denly an awful peal of thunder was heard. 

 In 5 minutes, the whole sky was a mass 

 of dark clouds and the rain was coming 

 down in torrents. It thundered and 

 lightened to beat the band. This kept up 

 half an hour, when it changed to hail. 

 The hail stones were about as large as 

 good-sized peas. Then the storm ceased. 



Do you know how we treat natives 

 whom we suspect of being connected with 



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a murder, or with some outbreak. Some- 

 times these natives kill other natives and 

 steal their carabaos or their rice, and 

 sometimes their wives. If we catch the of- 

 fender we send him down for a few years. 

 If we find a man whom we suspect of be- 

 ing connected with an uprising and who 

 refuses to give the names of his accom- 

 plices, we lay him on his back, hold his 

 nose so he cannot breathe through it, and 

 hold down his hands and feet Then 

 we open his mouth, and pour water in it 

 until he tells the truth. In several in- 

 stances we have secured a number of rifles 

 in this way, which are generally buried 

 along some river bank. 



One of our boys got a fawn from a 

 native, but the poor little creature died. 

 It was too young to be taken from its 

 mother. Success to Recreation, and its 

 editor. 



James W. B. Mannion, 

 Corpl. Co. M, 12th U. S. Inft., 

 Manila, P. I. 



