The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-06-09

relate some very interesting ac'
5 counts from the store of oral ira
: ditions that have been handed
down to him through the genera
tions of the dead and almost for
gotten past which these little wild
) men of the woods is living re-
preventative. His features are of
a Jewish type, but unlike the Jew,
he has none of his commercial
lpropensities, but is nevertheless
light-hearted andmarry by nature,
and is prone to laugh and is as
nimble as squirrel and fleet of
foot, and his little eyes are as
keen as hawks. He has no claim
to private ownership of land. He
is not agricultural, but a perfect
Esaw by nature, with the excep-
ton of clothing with the skins of
the animals he kills, but goes
about perfectly nude. He builds
no place of habitation; he hangs
his hat up wherever night over
takes him and makes himself at
home. He can navigate the woods
from point to point for hundreds
of miles with wonderful precision,
BUTT is said that he is an migrate
full little wretch and as treacher-
Gus us Judas and he practices
with scrupulous fidelity the hi
deous customs Of his forefathers
of the misty past.
| will now leave this little man
of the stone age to fashion his ar
row heads from the flint rock that
coldly hides the treasured spark
from which man first smote fire,
and say something OF the tribe
that have driven the Negritos
from the lowlands to the noun
tains, who are no doubt of the
Malay race when these islands
were first discovered by white men.
The Island of Luzon was subdiv-
ided into principalities and was
under the rulership of Rajahs on
the island of Mundanao and
the Zulus. There are also num-
Der of tribes of Mohammedan
Malays who are fierce and difficult
of subsection and does not seem
to be inclined to cultivate any
friendly acquaintance with the
Europeans and even regard with
suspicion as if he thought that
they had evil design toward his
peace and tranquility.
In was in the year of our Lord
and Saviour 1927 that the white
man first put foot upon those IS
lands. Magellan's expedition was
the first, he landed at Bulon on
Mindanao and were we'll received
by the non-suspecting natives.
He next went to Cebu where the
king and 500 of the natives were
baptlsed in the name of the king
of Spain, who continued from
that day to give impulse and di-
rection to their future until Adj
miral Dewey's fleet entered Mani
la Bay and unceremoniOusly
changed the conditions that had
directed the affairs of these orients
of the tropics for four hundred
years, and if Spain had have gov
erned with justice and wisdom as
England some time ago learned to
do she would have escaped the
| Just retribution that was visited
upon her.
The Philippine Islands are sit
uated in the part of the ocean
called Malaysia. They are bound
ed on the north and west by the
China Sea, on the east by the Pa
cific ocean and on the south by the
| lCelebus Sea. The total number
of islands are about 400, the
largest is Luzon, which is also the
most northern. The central
group is called the Visayas, the
most important of which are Pa
nay, Ncgros, Cebu, Lyte, Samor,
and Bohol. The principal islands
of the south are Mindanao, Bats
Ian, Zulu and Palanan or Para
qua. The total area of square
miles are 14,125. The climate is
healthful, there being no epide-
mic diseases as in other countries
of the same latitude. Dysentery
small pox. fevers and cutaneous
diseases are the most prevalent
: At places on the sea coast like
: Manila the thermometer seldom
reaches higher than go tahr.
and reaches Il minimum Of 600.
There are three seasons, the COO
season commences in November.
with monsoons from the north
east; the dry season sets in with
March and continues through
April, May and June, the hottest
months of the year. The rainy
: season lasts until October. The
prevailing winds are from the
Southwest and northeast and are
called mOnsoons. The southwest
monsoons begin in June and end
in September or October. Rain
is abundant in the interior of the
islands and on the coast during
the southwest m0nsOOns and
I sometimes the rain is accompan-
led by wind storms that last a
number of days, these are called
and really are tornadoes. The
number of inhabitants of these
islands is at present about ten
million. There are about eight
cen thousand Europeans and
about 100000 persons belonging
| to various Asiatic races and 100,-
}, 900 Mohammedans on the Island
of Zulu and Mindanao and there
are more or less inhabiting the
smaller islands not mentioned
herein. There are upward of