An Englishwoman in the Philippines . ean dogs and rubbish. There are notscavenger pariahs here as in Turkey and theNear East, and I suppose they could not exist insuch a climate, where the rubbish would be tooputrid even for their savoury taste. There are agood many hawks about, but they dont scavengeeither, like the hawks in Egypt; all they seem to dois to hover over poultry, and every now and thenget away with a young fowl or chicken. When wewere driving round between Molo and Jaro a weekor two ago, near the village of Mindoriao, we hearda great squawking and a scream, and looked roundin tim
An Englishwoman in the Philippines . ean dogs and rubbish. There are notscavenger pariahs here as in Turkey and theNear East, and I suppose they could not exist insuch a climate, where the rubbish would be tooputrid even for their savoury taste. There are agood many hawks about, but they dont scavengeeither, like the hawks in Egypt; all they seem to dois to hover over poultry, and every now and thenget away with a young fowl or chicken. When wewere driving round between Molo and Jaro a weekor two ago, near the village of Mindoriao, we hearda great squawking and a scream, and looked roundin time to see a hawk rise up from near a nipa hutwith a fair-sized hen in his claws. The peoplerushed about the plantation and sang out, and thehawk staggered once or twice, and nearly fell withthe hen, which was very big and heavy for him;but he got away at last, and the people were leftgazing after him into the sky, like in the picture of Eobert with his Red Umbrella in the scavenging is, or should be, done by the 128. PHILIPPINE RAILWAYS 129 half-wild pigs with which the native quarters teem—lean, rough, black and white animals, generallyvery mangy, and with long legs and snouts. A great deal of the way to the nursery wefollowed the route of a new electric tram, which isto be opened in the course of a few weeks, and isto connect all the suburbs with the main is immensely proud of this tram, which issuch a token of progress that it somehow or othermakes up for the lack of paving and other primarysymbols of civilisation. There is a railway heretoo, the only one in the Philippines, which goesabout 150 miles inland to a place called is constant talk of railways to be built allover the islands, the concessions for which are beinggranted, of course, to American speculators; butthose who know the islands well say the railwayswill not benefit anyone, even the speculators, forwhat are wanted besides labourers are roads, justgood trafiic roads,
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