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Show SPORT ON ISLAND OF SULU Uncle Sam Owns It Now The Old Sultan Seems to Have Been ' Some Fancy in His Day. The common sport of the old sultan of Sulu was boar hunting, carried on with a fine breed of native ponies. An English traveler at one of these hunts thus described the sultana, a typical Sulu woman: "She wore full Turkish trousers of blue silk richly embroidered, embroid-ered, and a blue vest fitting very tight and ornamented with gold buttons, but-tons, lace in front, using the universal .sarong as a covering for her shoulders; shoul-ders; around her head a clear buff kerchief was tied turban fashion; white cotton stockings and a pair of Chinese slippers completed her outward out-ward visibilities. Nearly all the Sulu women wear a deal of yellow, which contrasts vividly with their luxuriant black hair, and like the men they ride well and also in the same style." Capt. Edward L. . King of Bridge-water, Bridge-water, in whose arms the famous Gen. Henry Ware Lawton fell dying when picked off by sharpshooters at San Mateo, the Philippines, December 19, 1S99, has recently been appointed governor of the Sulu archipelago, the most southern of Uncle Sam's territorial terri-torial possessions. Deer are plentiful on the islands. There is an enormous day flying bat which is said to present a most weird and supernatural appearance. There is no elephant or tiger hunting on these islands as on their near neighbors. The two highest mountain peaks on ' Sulu proper are still covered with the primeval forest. The highest ic known as Bu'aat Timantangis or "Hill of Tears." As a reason for this name the natives na-tives assign the fact that it is the last bit of their native land which is visible vis-ible when they go away on their trading excursions. Men and women ride ponies, buffaloes buffa-loes and even cows to the markets. There are displayed for sale sweet potatoes, mangoes, bananas, yams and corn cobs, the universal receptacle is a neatly woven basket of cocoanut x leaves. Nuts for the betel chewers are on sale together with little packets pack-ets of the leaves of the piper betel. |