Map of the Philippine Islands 12
Trade routes of the Philippine Islands 146
Map of the City of Manila 234
"And the earth possesses no scenes more beautiful than those to be
found in this verdant and blooming archipelago * * * this magnificent
rosary of glowing islands, that Nature has hung above the heaving
bosom of the warm Pacific * * * with the vast variety of attractive
scenery, mountain and plain, lake and stream, everywhere rich with
glossy leafage, clustered growths of bamboo and palm, fields of yellow
cane and verdant coffee-groves."
"Views of lands and sea and sky, beautiful, gorgeous, awe-inspiring;
of historic spots and buildings, monuments, ruins * * * of peoples
familiar and strange; of industries modern to the minute, or old,
as old as the Pharaohs, the patient work of potter and weaver,
of craftsman, artisan, woodman, fisherman, husbandman; of peoples
primitive and cultured--races and nations, distinct, assimilated and
assimilating foreigners--foreigners whose descendants a few generations
later will be Filipinos--the Filipino Nation that is to be, in that
wonderland, the Philippines."
"Lived ever a man or a people on an island, however insignificant
and bleak and bare, without feeling for it pride and love? Call to
mind poem and song, picture and tale; the history of island races.
"Behold, then, the Philippines: thousands of islands, great and small
beautiful, bountiful beneath a benignant sky. Seek to know how Truth
paints them, and understand and sympathize with their people's fervid
desire to call them their very own."