The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-20

ana within q quarter Of an hour were re-
warded by his coming cat and hildlng va
welcome. Through our Interpreter he made
as at home and chatted with US about him
self and his people.
Detto Mandi IS by far the finest looking
Mohammcdan / have seen in the Philip
pines He Is dark-faced, sober-iooking
man Of perhaps Afty years MS straight "a
the tail cocoanut trees which wase :heir
fan-,ike leaves over his village lie has
bright. piercing black eyes. nose which ~
almost Roman in shape ana broad fore
head His mouth shows determination ana
his teeth are of the black Varnisl hue 50
much desired by the Moro.
4 Message 10 he United States.
During our conversation 7 asked nim 10
send message to the American people
through my papers, eaying that We appre-
cated that he WAS our best friend aaong
the Moro chiefs. and that we hoped tho
friendship might continue. The ja.to re-
piled that he considered himself An Ameri-
can citizen, and that | might say - the
people Of the United States that he desired
to hc Aiends with them and would fesht for
them.
| asked him how many people he had
under him, and he told me 1000
asked him II he would not make a visit
TO the United States. telling MIN that I
had no doubt thu, the president would 10
glad to sec him. To this he replied Ihct
he had been friend Of Spain. and as such
had made n trip to Madrid and these been
received by the queen, ana that as he was
now our friend he hoped 10 be able 20 visit
us and hold conference with the president.
In our conversation I found that he
had but little Idea OF the extent OF our
country, although he said he knew II
must lac very large, for Col. Pettlt had
told him st was $40 leagues from ono
side OF Il TO the other. He spoke Of tho
army, which he much admired. and also
OF the great size ~ our horses and mulcs.
| could see that Mandi has great
strength OF character, and ! am told that
Gen. Bates considers his friendship very
valuable to the United states. II he could
be persuaded to visit Washington with
some OF his brother dattos and perhaps
the sultan, the effect might bo worth in
the prevention OF future wars. a thoua-
and times the expense ~ the trip. I
don't know that such a thiuE Is In com
temptation. but I would suggest that tho
president send such an invitation to
party made up Of the most distinguished
Of the Moro dattos, the sultan Of Min
danao md the sultan 81 Jolo. including
n visit to tho electrical exposition at
Buffalo as "a part of the program.
After our Interview was over I asked
the datto " ! might not make photo-
graph Of him aud his house, lie not
only consented, but dressed for the oc-
Caaiou. coming Qua with his cane OF rank
and IA number Of gold and silver med
ais which he had received from Spain.
1e brought out his fayorite wife, a beau-
tiful More rlrl. aud stood up with her,
the da}to and his eldest son. while Col.
Hayes pushed the buttan
Later an hc took his kris. scrpen-
tine knife or digger "A yard long and
showed tho faYotiln cuts - be used in
carving up ara enemy ga not ask
him t1 cut o0 "a head in way ~ Illus
;ration hut ; am assured tbat no might
easily have done so without arnuslnx
aa lnsuuccllon among his people