The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-12-18
A HONOLULANS
EXPERIENCES IN
THE PHILIPPINES
Eenry Townsend, Formerly a Local
Educator, Tells Of Life
in Samar.

I which to lie. The next morning the
cool. bracing climate of this elevation
| would have been better appreciated II
the clothes we had washed the day
before had had chance to dry. The
mountain chill on them was decidedly
| disagreeable, but pajamas would not
do for hiking" and we were travel
ing light.
on the thirtieth day of October, at 9
o'clock in the morning, we set out IN
"dugouts" from Laquilocan down the
ulut river to the Pacific Ocean on the
east coast of Samar. This was Voy-
age down mountain stream over
rapids and past cascades and water
| falls SO numerous that I lost count OF
them entirely. 1t is my opinion, how
ever. that we got out of our boats to
ease or carry them over bad places
not less than twenty-five times, ana
we must have shot two or three times
that number of rapids. How long this
| VOYAGE was in miles nobody knows, as
the Ulut river has q way of it's own or
reaching the sea. Ulut Is the local ma
tive word for monkey, and at first
jumped at the conclusion that the river
was so named on account of the large
number of monkeys along its banks;
but my faith in that conclusion was
snr. ,,,oni,a,,s an our vovape IT now
| ,,o,,,, ,,,oro rroh,bIe that II was
! aeo,,,,,,t of tho inconseouent IRA
,,.,,,, o,,o tio nd upaccountable course
! It'll, a. .,l,os After runnin, toward
~, tha CARDINAL noints of the compass
and all the other points of the same.
annarently by the merest accident it
finally comes into contact with the Pa
ci6c Vet II was fortunate for us that
| It does not run n direct course; for
| in that case IL would not be at all
navipoble.
| Our first couree was to the town of
! Ralapan. which we reached at half
mast four. having stopped one hour on
| tba vav To get something to eat and
give the "pilots" n little rest. Every
hour had new Measures. such a ka-
llo;aosconic nonorama of beauty never
nassed before NV ewes. or luXuriant
tron,cal vepetaSon hardly need speak
TO the readers in Hawaii. Add to the
beauties of the Olaa forest a stream
49, ne nata. ra,. do,, now, cushing
go r.,,, - o,i5s ,,o,, roarinp
-. 80 " -, ,,. ,e, hraoa ,ra c,l,,,
| ~. a. ,aao+s, N tha haoutias Of skv
-. 80 a,a ho,,, do,hI;ng and
,,,a,,,f,,inn ,han, Whom we had To
' 80 ',',,,, a,s ana tra,,ol an foot for
.s1,,,,,, 40 ,,;,,,ha1 olo,c
80, ,,,, g., go, o,,oo, ond naIn,s
49,, - so,,,,ti,,a, ,,,, u,,Il,e1
nv" W "i' :; y'',,'' ,.,..
WIN ."i4t s'eps oN't p''1S
, &c" ioHhs itiu p"'e ps ''' ~ ~'''e'
its rloou 'lh'eS' iu'eo ~ w,
the orchius over ieau winch ,,I. :,
downward WIN ''ie'' io's ep
howers, tempting our eyes '"ous" Wv
OF reach OF our MINUS soi''e'''''.e'
where the banks We're precipi'ous' we
kept close to then' securing ourselves
against mishap by hoidihs last 'ne
branches OF trees ana silrups WINE We
Cil'hueu over roShS VI """'" p''' -
ting our pockets run Oh peautiiul' ciea',
cold mountain water het III AZ 'his
noted that / got very niue wafer III III!
shoes-lor 'he obvious re"so'' 'h"' '''es
We're otherwise occupied
4 RARE PLEASURE TRIP.
. In spite OF harashiPS' p''f"',o's a,.u
exposure 10 sun ana ram po'' oi 'le
. back upon this as a rare pleasure lrip'
, we spent i'Ve nours "' ""'"sa"' se',
tlhS dinner hhdlhb new po''s "''N
pilots ana resting Al ha'i past mn, NM
> we set out Tor Cahapio' AT the i'lou''
= OF the ulut river me iu'l moon WH'
SHINING IN all her trop'cai splenuo'
:, changing the faN'si''''s oe"u''es VI '''
" day INTO the more ho"est ones Oh .,l'
]
;. last OF the cascaues' ana, WrnPp'''
a nlysell IN my plailke'' Whleh l h"' h"'
continued TO keep urS' l settled my
n ser Tor the hish'' hut 'hSiue oi 'i
plahNet was wet ana colu'' ihe
20 came rheuinatism' relillhuihs me OF III
10 sprihG-tiine IN dear o'u iowa, "heh ~,
!, last snow drlits were lheltlhs oeslu
n. tho swollen streams ana The slush am