| Show IN THE Inte interesting retting latter fromar macdonald campaigning in luzon biazon lecul cf tho tha country A letter from dr A mcdonald jr the surgeon iv Lovina located imater at fort Ducho Duche aoe aco for devoral ledd and who bought B cargo of horses last sunnier for tho the use of tho the united trompa in the bo philip findly handed us ua by james hacking from froin the following extract Af philippine islands february 1900 mr air jamos jamas HaL hacking king dear arif rid 1 I ta wonted anted to write you fc fir r a long turie time hut but did not want to until I 1 had soun soon manila end and some of tile the islands I 1 arrnold here bere december twenty three daas from honolulu Hon liono olula ittin on the I 1 report reported hl tor for duty to my regiment I 1 brought 3 30 Q horses with me and twelve died on the tha way I 1 was kept buy at pagay barracks until january 3rd ard when I 1 pulled out with ray my regiment for the bouthern camp campaign wo we started for a ten dayt days trip but was waa gone forty two we marched through tour four provinces pro vincen rad and crossed tho the island four times there were i ere four troops of if my regiment the fth cavalry and faur troops of the alth cavalry nearly every town doaa ua a came to wao deserted deser tod we wa w wre were re in about twenty thatis hat if inhabited would have from people ahe insurgents thick between the towns some days wo would imn lino a no lighting and others wo would h wo ivo oua one oi 01 two aln camai iu ans in a country that american soldiers Bol diera had bad noer been in and mus us the iho term ter of 0 the ilia insurgents nta we ve lout nine men and had a great idony anany wounded in two or thieo tights it felt na as though wo we lit in a bail storm and I 1 thought sura that I 1 aaa sent for in the mindi of every on this campaign huft ndoc the war of course coarse thero there will bo be Oti orilla fighting tor for yaji q nud and I 1 iam it will ill jo bu 11 long a party of while men inon will lie besa sato foin in ti an elling through any of those these island A manila hantla is a krent greaf city of 2 people Anio ricans na arid and chinese 1 ho cit la is built on I 1 oth ata aka 3 of tho the jimr I 1 iho be old or wrilla city iii IB ou tle north sido side it hns hai hn ha i s it fisli about twenty kl ft ot et high md end as filin oin tinty to forty toil fett wide all it it hus has six or malit g gito nyo wilk briw brOg 1 i each ach one tind ft a mo it i 11 I 1 out fea fe t NV IB tho the NY ills this can be lilka ich nith butir rapidly from the mid hu ho 10 lo lie air neld w ald boubour w nebout feet eskle i nd about twenty foot i depp deep cu alne rit cit when the loraw draw are in and the gate gutes i ahir it la is a I 1 bioty fort Iril odethe inside tha i i arbory narrow u und md nd i on pry cm 1 I pary ivr ty house churches included is in a separate fort every door inside the wall I 1 la either iron steel or doable burdwood hurd wood eveia window oo on the upper as veil as lower stories atones have iron or stool bairs across them thein like a prison every house hiti hai largo larga roarn baths in hi them lined bricks that ak liali like fine china ware tit tho city outside the i nl all is lile like till nil other towns on tho the island each ton n has a large plaza or purk pur kiNith with trees frees roman baths etc then ono or two large churches the chur churches chos aro elegant sti natures e every ery ono having hilvin nil all the appliances appliance a to malo make good viz dun boac MIR cells stocks and store houses it makes ono one shudder to look into some of those thoo places the honaas of the well to do are stone to the first story then hard hanl wood for tho the second story there is not no third bird Tb aba ground aground bloor i never enod for living pur purposed posen aea it is used for business us as a storo store house car riago nago house or stable the poor and middle class live in one ona story houses bouses or t backs made of hard wood and bamboo or bamboo alido all AIL tho officers nod aud soldiers cirs here bar racks art arc made of bamboo rind shingled ehin shin glod or thatched with a lind of grasp grass ahn floors nio inch of bamboo or hard bard wood stringers gors tile the strips are j luch inch apart tor for ventilation purposes rind all floors in buildings of 0 one story aie raised from four to six foot foet off tho the ground 0 on both sides fidow of the main of ton town nit in the interior are liao fine i irrigating ditches sides and bottom solid stone masonry does it sound bound queer quo ar irrigating irti gating ditches IQ in a country whore tho the rain nun full fall in a month in the rainy season is sometimes inore than fifty indies 7 ibe ahe principal crop here it is aliceo cocoanuts cocoa auts nuts and beina bari bananas anas and other fruit I 1 nearly forgot game chickens ri a native is very very poor it if he does not nob own several lighting cocks near tle the mountains the rive rice indies aro are in 10 terraces toi tei races the taft must be level therefore they are very vary small email ono one twentieth of an nere they lavo have banks a toot foot ox or so high ull nil around thesa them ahe I 1 ho rico must be ba covered with water A bilo bile it is 13 growing so BO these ore are irrigated by floodine lion hen the upper cadies are full the war walor fulls through a little notch la a the bink to tho landies bolow below ono one twentieth of ofin ark acre a not tile size of till all cadies they ato aio mado made as largo na its the lay of the country will permit I 1 have seen the natives planting rico in ia one padie and in tho next it would could bo be half grown and in the next one they would b harvesting tile the ripe gram grain in tho the level country near dear the shore irrigating is i impracticable tho the rice is sown juat before the rainy tto tio ason after the rainy season it is IB harvested thoy they raise a crop of lay hay or grasi before the next rainy r season enson hay is ia never dry hero here it is cut fresh every day of tha year chero is deiy little change in the temperature boio it 19 hot till all the time tim ejust just now it ia about like july and august weather in utah all the freighting plowing ftc is 19 dono dodo with water buffalo or caribou cari boo horses or mules could not I 1 ilow low rice land they would amne in the mud I 1 have not seen boon a or ana an thing like it since binco I 1 hino have boim been hero her 0 epho only wild ani malti I 1 have SOL seen in are monkey B rind they art are plentiful rhe ilie rind and ants malo make lifo life a buelen at night the natives ria tives aro are ugly deceitful treacherous liars and thieves I 1 ani am onro that they cun kovei bo be alej ican bcd iho moun mountains taing are conoron with tino hard bard wooda and are anro full of nun brals 1 I have bavo BU sonic some on our trip I 1 baw somo i vory ory blaut I 1 fal at one place 0 iio o crossed on over era a small ismall range of mountains and onabe on the other side bide nga ns a lalo with nn inland that had three or four jol caDIC cretors on it bocain URS from froin ono one of am them I 1 cau can say bay that thia ii the most beautiful counti hut ahn t I 1 have cv it sc been liucc lit I 1 do not bao Q it I 1 dont cloret think it is heal th or a white roans mans country 1 have takimi the bc t cae of myself that 1 could but agot I 1 get wk hick nud and have luht nearly twenty abin i land inland it id lull full of laro large aniH I 1 hava hano seen at loaa 1000 places where good water power could bu bo had all the budges aro are built bulbol of filoia solid cia soury beono archib arches that are almost worth a trip here to look iok at tle the native hois loisea or ponies are small email but i ary boid go 11 drivers and pad fad F ad adlers good A uil batlin homem can be b bought for or about halt half what tho the fro freight i ight v coal coa oil oa nd in american hoise hoi so of the bamo bame clarq chisi rassy barracks Bar where I 1 am now tire are ibrom miles milea from froia manila and on alio of tho liy ty cavity chero tho the naval tight took place ia BIX or bevon milea from here I 1 can lamIt soft it quite plainly ilia and some of the old spanish war ships this thia bay makes a lino land idled harbour oneff one of the best in lu tle tho world it is ia enid eaid I 1 have told you all I 1 can think of about this count countey ity and now I 1 want to br jl of bubness which 1 Is more import hut yours respectfully A MacDou tild jr veterinary surgeon ath cabuli manila philippine |
