. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. THE CARABAO, THE WORK-STOCK OF THE FILIPINOS. AN OLD SPANISH CATHEDRAL Of all the native Oriental peoples, the Filipinos alone have become thoroughlyChristianized. The great majority are Catholics WHAT I SAW IN THE PHttffPINES 159 wear slippers, and not a few are now slaves enough to fashionto wear American shoes. The men, except the very poorest,wear white, nor is it a white worn dark by dirt such ds Koreanswear, but a spotless, newly w
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. THE CARABAO, THE WORK-STOCK OF THE FILIPINOS. AN OLD SPANISH CATHEDRAL Of all the native Oriental peoples, the Filipinos alone have become thoroughlyChristianized. The great majority are Catholics WHAT I SAW IN THE PHttffPINES 159 wear slippers, and not a few are now slaves enough to fashionto wear American shoes. The men, except the very poorest,wear white, nor is it a white worn dark by dirt such ds Koreanswear, but a spotless, newly washed white. Nearly every Filipinoseems to have on clothes that were laundered the day sort of colored gauze is frequently the only outer garmentworn by either men or women on the upper part of the body. The beast of burden in the Philippines, the ungainly, slow-moving animal that pulls the one-handled plows and the two-wheeled carts, is the carahao. The carabao, or water buffalo,is about the size of an ordinary American ox, and much likethe ox, but his hide is black, thick, and looks almost as toughas an alligators; his horns are enormous, and he has very httlehair. Perhaps his having li
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