The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . a tremendous amount of staying power. Onward they dog-gedly go, over hill and dale, striding along at a tiring pace,which they often keep up without cessation until arriving atyour destination. For the first three miles the path lies through well cultivatedundulating country, and the remaining two miles, after passingthe Five-Palms, as the far-seen landmark is still called, althoughthere are only four trees standing now, the fifth one having beenblown down some years ago during a typhoon, through one vastlyspacious cemetery. Acres and acres are c
The mystic flowery land; a personal narrative . a tremendous amount of staying power. Onward they dog-gedly go, over hill and dale, striding along at a tiring pace,which they often keep up without cessation until arriving atyour destination. For the first three miles the path lies through well cultivatedundulating country, and the remaining two miles, after passingthe Five-Palms, as the far-seen landmark is still called, althoughthere are only four trees standing now, the fifth one having beenblown down some years ago during a typhoon, through one vastlyspacious cemetery. Acres and acres are covered with the Omega-shaped tombs of the rich and the gravemounds of the poor—liolding generations and generations of dead and buried few ancient tombs of early Jesuit Fathers, noble and heroicspirits long passed away, men who are remembered yet by theliumble country folk for their i)iety and benevolence, stand amid,and help to consecrate this forest of forgotten graves. At length you pass through a pretty little green lane with 1.
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