Nine months on a cruise and experiences in Nicaragua . ::;*!**---,*??•. .S THE PHILIPPINE ISIyANDS 51 all our educational efforts. That these efforts are meeting withsuccess may be readily observed by any one visiting the islandsat intervals of a few years. The city of Manila is the center of interest to navy menwho visit the Philippinss because, outside of Olongapo, it is theone liberty port that the big ships visit most frequently. It is the point where most of us get our first, and per-haps only impression of these islands, and at that, this city con-tains samples of almost everyth
Nine months on a cruise and experiences in Nicaragua . ::;*!**---,*??•. .S THE PHILIPPINE ISIyANDS 51 all our educational efforts. That these efforts are meeting withsuccess may be readily observed by any one visiting the islandsat intervals of a few years. The city of Manila is the center of interest to navy menwho visit the Philippinss because, outside of Olongapo, it is theone liberty port that the big ships visit most frequently. It is the point where most of us get our first, and per-haps only impression of these islands, and at that, this city con-tains samples of almost everything that can be seen elsewhere inthe islands. It may be said in general that there are three , the Manila of the primitive native which, with its nipashacks, carabaos, and quaint fishing boats, exists much as it didthree centuries and a half ago except that the civilization sur-rounding them now demands more clothing and more workfrom them. Second, there is the Manila of the sixteenth andseventeenth century Spaniard—adventurer, merchant, and cru-sader—who, in
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