Letters from the Far East . we docked at Manila. After a visit to the stores, we took an auto and rodeout into the country. We saw many of the little nativehouses, set up on posts, the roofs being thatched withcoconut leaves. We visited the military barracks; theold Spanish part of the city; passed the ancientchurches, some of which looked nearly ready to crum-ble to ruins; the old city wall, with its arched gate-ways; the Philippine University, with its School ofMedicine; the Hospital, Bureau of Science, and va-rious other buildings. The women were gaily, yet modestly attired, in thethinnest
Letters from the Far East . we docked at Manila. After a visit to the stores, we took an auto and rodeout into the country. We saw many of the little nativehouses, set up on posts, the roofs being thatched withcoconut leaves. We visited the military barracks; theold Spanish part of the city; passed the ancientchurches, some of which looked nearly ready to crum-ble to ruins; the old city wall, with its arched gate-ways; the Philippine University, with its School ofMedicine; the Hospital, Bureau of Science, and va-rious other buildings. The women were gaily, yet modestly attired, in thethinnest of garments. It was all picturesque. On account of the heat, however, which we weretold was cool for Manila, we were not sorry when at3 p. m. the following afternoon, we steamed slowlyaway, though feeling some regrets to leave these beau-tiful islands. As we passed out from among them, we saw theisland round which Admiral Dewey sailed, thus gain-ing an entrance to Manila Bay, which led to our takingthese islands from River Scene, Showing Kinhwa in the Distance withArched Stone Bridge
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