The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
WHERE THE UTAH BATTERIES ARE
Malays Are the Real Insurgents and Have Never Been
Completely Conquered BY Spain.

hists, but the widest tribes worship
the sun and the moon. and pract ice sor,
Gerry. The witch doctor is dellh-Sou
among them. Time is reckoned by the
suns and moons, as in China A man
is allowed but one wife in some tribes
but in other tribes man may nave
any number of wives he DESIRES, anu
the women are looked upon as mere
chattels.
Morality is at a low eb5 among the
Kanakas, too. Away from the tO'NHs
the Kanaka women wear nothing Out
the rings in their noses and the cotFry
shells hanging from their ears: IheS 40
not know there is such a virtue as
chastity. They have religious oeD'eIS
that are a mixture of savage rites ana
oriental worship. The Spamards, VINO
are all Catholics. have made little OF no
efforts to convert either the MaIays VI
the KanakaS. In fact, either a natlt e
Malay or Kanaka is not allowed 10
enter a Catholic church in Manila
There is another element in the popu-
lation composed of what are calleo
'MestiZos. They are a cross between
the native Malay and the kanaka
women ard the Spaniards, and CORE
spond TO the mulattOs IN the United
States. All the governing classes are
strictly Spanish, and the h1gh-class
/
/ purity of their blood for many genera
tions on the islands. The Catholic
church is all-powerful, and the Phil
ippines are really ruled by the priests,
who, of course, are of pure Spanish
blood.
when was at Manila the boundary
line between the Kanaka country and
the Malay section ran two miles south
of the city and through what was
known as Bamboo Town. The Span
iards kept soldiers along this boun-
| dairy line to keep the MalayS from
fighting the Kanakas, and to keep the
whites from wandering out among the
Malays. 1t was worth ones life to go
beyond the limit and get among the
Malays, for they did not hesitate to
commit murder for the purpose of rob
berry. The Kanakas were peaceable,-
and it was safe to go among them
One had only to go across the limit
outside Manila to see the Kanakas llv-
ing in their savage state.
las Manila is near the equator (only
about degrees of latitude away, it is
hot there the year round The tenn
perature rises to 125 and 100 degrees
from March to June, and it is lis de-
grees during the rainy season, from
June to November. Manila is compar-
atively healthy Yellow fever is un-
heard of. Smallpox and typhoid fever
anu malaria anu QySGnlCIy DIRE luC
prevalent diseases. The most danger
Gus disease for persons from cold eli
mates is dySentery, as they have been
used to eating animal food, and they
become i'll when living on the native
fruits of the islands. Foreigners over
80 years of age who go to Manila die
quickly of dysentery. Monsoons are
common, but typhoOnS that bring the
wind from all quarters of the globe at
once are the most dangerous, as they
churn up the waters of the sea until it
looks like soapsuds. Earthquakes hap
pen almost daily for a period, and then
one may not occur again for nine
months. Three earthquakes occurred
during the three months that I was at
Manila, and one of them destroyed a
portion of the old cathedral. These
earthquakes came at night, and each
time Bamboo Town was shaken down,
but the town was put up again next
morning, and nobody seemed to be par
ticularly excited. 1t was not much
trouble to re-erect the sticks and shan
ties of Bamboo Town.
Life in Manila is taken leisurely.
iards sleep most of the days, and
everybody keeps out of the sun. BY
sunset all the fashionable classes ap-
pear on the large plaza and hear the
music of the band, and drive, and
catch the breeze from the bay. They
play cards and everybody, women and
men, smoke cigarettes. Naval officers
from foreign ships are now ashore