ippine woman carrying water.]

On one of the islands there is a wonderful plant called the pitcher
plant. Its leaves are in the shape of pitchers. Some of the pitchers
have lids, and are large enough to hold a pint of water.

In the Philippines they raise coffee, bananas, sugar, tobacco, and
cotton. One of their most useful plants is the plant from which they
get hemp for making ropes and cords. This plant is called "ab'a-ca" by
the people in the Philippines, and its hemp is called Manila hemp.

There is a great deal of rice grown in the Philippines. Rice is the
food that most of the people live on.

There are buffaloes in the Philippines. The people use them for riding
and for carrying loads. They have also deer, goats, and hogs.

[Illustration: A Buffalo at Work.]

In some parts of the islands they have a strange way of fishing. They
fill baskets with a kind of mixture in which they put poison. Then
they throw the baskets into the water. The fish become stupid after
eating the poison. Very soon they rise to the top of the water, where
the people catch them.

Manila is a large town with strong walls and a deep moat, or ditch,
around it. There are eight gates in the wall and bridges across the
moat.

The men in Manila wear trousers and shirts; but they wear the shirts
outside. The women wear skirts with long trains, and waists with very
full and flowing sleeves. They wear scarfs or handkerchiefs around
their necks, with two of the corners hanging down their backs. They
never wear hats.

[Illustration: Women of Luzon.]

In a few of the islands there are schools, and the children learn to
read and write; but in many other parts there are neither schools nor
churches. As the islands now belong to the United States, there will
soon be many more schools, and the children will be able to learn
everything that is taught in our schools.




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Far away in Africa, near where the pygmies live, there is a great river
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John Holland Rose (1855-1942) was an influential English historian who wrote a famous biography of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and also wrote a history of Europe, entitled The Development of the European Nations. Rose was the basis for C. P. Snows fictional character M. H. L. Gay (see Years of Hope: Cambridge, Colonial Administrator in the South Seas, and Cricket by Philip Snow.)

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