Identifier: ohiowomaninphili04cong (find matches)
Title: An Ohio woman in the Philippines; giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Conger, Emily Bronson Parr, Charles McKew donor Parr, Ruth, donor
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Publisher: (Akron, O., Press of R.H. Leighton
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Brandeis University Libraries

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. HE various islands seemed to have their ownpeculiarities. Cebu is famous for vast quan-tities of Manila hemp ; also for shell spoons ;these are beautiful, of various sizes, , andcolors, according to the shell they are cutfrom. They are especially appropriate in serving fish.The abaka-cloth of this island is the finest made, and itspearl fisheries are valuable. In 1901 a lively insurrectionwas gomg on in Cebu. The banks of the bay were linedwith refugees who had come from the inland to be pro-tected from their enemies. There were hundreds ofthem, but not a single cooking utensil amongst them.Some would go up to the market place and buy a pennysworth of rice skillfully put up in a woven piece of bam-boo. And lucky for them if they had the penny. Therest spent their time fishing. The cathedral of Cebu, built of stone, is especiallyfine. It has for its Patron Saint, a babe, Santa Nina. The story is that at one time there were a great many(152)
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FACADE OF CHURCH. SANTA NINAAT CEBU. P. 1. ISLANDS CKBU AND ROMELOM 153 babies stricken with a malady ; the parents vowed if theHoly Mother would spare their children they would buildthis cathedral. One of the largest prisons is at Cebu. We were shownmany of the dungeons; there were then confined withinthose walls many very bad Insurrectos. As we were eager to visit one of the large estates, wewere given a heavy guard and went inland about twomiles from the port; it was certainly a fine plantation,much better kept than any I had ever seen before. Wewere apparently cordially received, and were assured ifwe would only stay we could partake of some of the fam-ily pig, that was even then wandering around in the bestroom in the house. The floor of the large reception room was polished asperfectly as a piano top ; its boards were at least eighteeninches wide and sixteen to twenty feet long. I askedseveral persons the name of this beautiful place, but couldnot find out. On the sideboard were

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