The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-05
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boats night after night, and the phos-
phoresent glow of millions of fish adds
another color. Ali the dirt, the SQualOr
and filth of the dirty, filthy people, is
forgotten in the beauty of this scene.
"Zamboanga itself is a dream city in
its beauty, the officers quarters being
especially picturesque and convenient.
II is unique in other ways as well, haV-
ing for a dattO peace-lOving Moro,
DattO MandeS, whose rule has been
most beneficent and under whose reign
| the city has prospered. Through the
city runs the old, canal from which the
original water supply was taken, and
here the native women may be seen
still doing the small amount of laundry
needed. 1t was here that the comic
opera, The Sultan of Sulu, was writ
ten by George Ade.l John 7. McCutch-
con, who was a war correspondent
there in 1899 was i'll and his friend,
George AIDE came to him. After they
had seen the sultan they wrote the
play Sulu is now called Jolo, but the
original sultan is still there.
1.-The island of Basilan, near Fam
| boanga, is another spot apparently
dropped from fairly land, SO filled is it
with tropical beauty. A party of Off
GERS and their wives and children and
SOIH6 dIIIOlI6 TIC llul spent
Christmas day there last year, making
the trip over in a quartermaster
launch and eating luncheon in the his
toric old fort on the island. The land
ing on the low docks, built of coral as
it lies, formed an impossible landing
place save for the small bintas which
put out from the launch. The smaller
| island of Santa Cruz lies between Ba-
silan and the shore, and here is the
historic old graveyard of the Moros.
These docks are not the only docks
of coral taken and used in its native
state, for many of the southern islands
are largely of coral formation and the
reefs round about are numerous. The
| large docks at Zamboanga are all of
coral and nearly all the inter-island
| landings in the southern group are of
this handy material.
Executions by Tide.
"The city of Jolo, like Manila itself,
! is walled city, the wall being formed
or coral The Manila wall, however, is
| of stone and we'll constructed. 1t was
| begun in 1912 and is really liz many re-
spects work of art. Many of the
gates are wonderfully ornamented and
inches are seen which have been
shrines in days past. Cells similar to
that shown in the picture are found at
frequent intervals along the shoreward
part When the American troops first
went to the islands these cells were lit
orally filled with human bones which
had been washed clean by the tides.
The practice was to iLcarcerate prison.
ers in these fearful places and let the
I tide finish the work of execution.
! "Gruesome sights are not infrequent,
however, even in these days when bet
| ter conditions are so prevalent. The old
Pace cemetery at Manila, which has
been thoroughly overhauled and its
boneyard destroyed is one of the most
beautiful to be seen now. but this beau
ty is only recently unmixed with hor
ror. The 'boneyard,' which has always
been part of each cemetery, has been
| cleaned out and the bones burned The
cemetery is now like any modern bury
ing ground. and the barbarous custom
which established the 'boneyard is
done away with by Jaw.
1.-The custom has been for centuries
past to rent the graves by spaces of