The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-06-16
FRO7 THE PHILIPPINES.
Continued from last week.


The Rio Grande Of Cagayou, in
Euzon, rises to the east of the
South Caraballo, draining about
1850 so. miles and is about 270
miles in length and empties into
the:China Sea. There is little
known of the water falls of the
mountains, but the most famous
are those of TayboS and La Lagu-
ma which is 460 feet in height.
There is another near mount
Aduas in Moroug. Mindanao has
the falls of Iligan river, those of
Miaga creek in the mountains Of
Bislig and those of Lalugapon and
Logsocan. On the upper part of
the Rio Grande Thermal springs
are found all over the island,
some in few miles of Manila.
The waters are of every compost
ton imaginable. The principal
mammal is the water buffalo,
which is a very appropriate name
as he spends all of his leisure time
in mud hole or pond or wades
out in the river until the water
nearly covers him and stands there
a statue of content. He is also
the principal draught animal, they
are usually worked ina tive
wheeled cart with shafts that are
fastened to rope passed under
the neck to prevent the shafts
lifting up when ascending a hill or
when the cart is loaded too much
on the back. The driver usually
rides on the back of the soft,
mild-eyed carebon as the natives
call them. They can draw very
heavy load and strange to say
their skin is very tender though
1T resembles black India rubber
and when they are worked very
hard under the hot rays of the
tropical sun they perspire as free
ly as a horse would, unlike our OK
that only sweats on the nose. The
caribou is also slaughter ed for
beef which is of a dark color when
cooked and has a decided wild
taste. The hide is tanned and
shoes and harness made from it,
but it is inferior to the leather
made from the American OK hide.
Their horns are about three feet
long and fiat like a goats horn and
is the material from which a great
many novelties are made such as
combs, spoons, knives, forks,
match boxes walking sticks, paper
knives and various other articles.
The sacred cows are another in
teresting animal but less grotes-
que. They are much smaller than
our COWS and are usually Of a
light bay color, and fills the same
sphere of usefulness that the Ca
ribou does.
The natives use both the milk
of the caribou and sacred COW.
There are also a few sheep and
goats raised. Wild boar are
found in all the forest, deer as
well. Hogs are abundant and
forms the principal meat diet of
of which some species appear to
be quite Intelligent, also a large
variety of birds, the largest is the
tipol, specie of the crane. The
mollusks are very plentiful and
are unriValled in any part of the
mother of pearl shell in which is
found the precious pearl. The
tachbos is very large bivalve
measuring over three feet. among
zoophytes there are the madrepora
of / fanciful shape. Coval is also
common, peculiar to these waters
is the euplectulla aspergillum po-
pularly called regadera or sprink-
ling pot. There is a very nice
variety of vegetation of which L
will only mention 4 few of the
trees which are used for building
purposes and cabinet work, viz:
the mancono, the molave, the ipil
the yacal, the banaba, the gulro,
the balicuhin also the nora, white