Evening star., 1902-02-06
philippine AN M A IS
THE ARCHIPELAGO DESCRIBED As
PARADISE FOR sPORTsMEN.
r>~a.f. and JunEles Abound In Big
Game-Many Varieties of
Water Fowl.
Pror Field and Stream

Sror Field and Stream.
In MANY ways our new possessions IN the
orient are well entitled to be styled nun
ter's paradise, for although about the oiiiS
snort now being INDUCED in is that OF hunt-
ing insurgent bands the Islands OF the fhil-
ippine archipelago are filled with game AM
mails and game birds swarm in the forests
and iungies, while the inland waters IN
many instances are literally covered Will
many varieties of water fowls.
For those who incline to hunung Dig
game there is the boar, fierce ana savage
beast which runs wild amog the dense trop-
tcal jungles, where cocoanuts anu othei
troDica1 fruits afford abundance of food to
sattate his carnivorous appetite All over
the wooded parts of Luzon great numbers
~ deer roam. being little troubled by the
natives. who are not much given TO hunting
and who have little craving for meat diet.
During those days when our army lay In
Manila Immediately after its fall there
we're many hunting excursions into the m
terror and plenty Of big game was usuaiiy
bagsed Many of the soldiers OF the otn
Army Corps the volunteer army OF occu-
nation in Manila have now in their pos
session fine antlers secured on these nunt-
ing trips and fine specimens they are tot
the Philippine antler Is possessed OF the
aame liberal growth that characterizes
most animal life on those islands, the WHY
little Filipino being about the only eAcep-
tion to this general rule.
Monkeys as Targets.
While monkeys. which seem TO De more
numerous than most any other wild amman
10 be found on the islands. are not TO De
considered IN the legitimate class OF game.
yet one can scarcely resist the temptation
to try a shot at the leader Of the great
army Of these chattering creatures which Is
always present in the picturesque jungles
of Luzon. Mindanao, Negros. Panay and
the other islands. Coming down to smaller
game, the tagua or guigas, kind of flying
squirrel, seems to be in every tree, and a
rather odd webbed-foot furry animal 1t Is.
The natives make pets of this queer sauir-
rel and one can see hundreds displayed In
cages about Manila Another little animal
which attracts ones attention in the Phil
tppine jungles Is the masigen- 1t Is a nat
ural enemy of rats and mice, but has no
value to the sportsman. Vampires and
great bats fit aimlessly past one In the
etiiIness of these tropical woodlands, and
parrots and other tropical birds In theii
brilliant plumage are ever present wner'
eyer there is foliage In the land OF everlast
While game was plentiful everywhere ir
the jungles In those days before the Filipino
the nghting In the Jungies about Manila be.
gan, that almost all animal life disappeared
before the onslaught Of our forces The
heavy firing. kept up night and day Tor 9
time, drove the wild things back into the
mountains, but as the fighting subsided
they gradually ventured back to their ia
vorite haunts along the rivers and streams
and today one can see plenty OF game
yet II u not safe to venture even that dis
tance In quest Of sport, for the insurReni
bands and the brigands never lose an op
portanaty TO wayiay an American wht