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Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hildhood when her father was Chief Justiceof the Samoan Islands. To her great surprise the Bogoboanswered and seemed greatly pleased. He had already hadconveyed to him the fact that the only thing the ladieswanted was bead clothing, so he indicated to Miss Ide thathe would present to her his coat and pants, and withoutfurther ado, and much to her astonishment, he began todivest himself of these garments which she accepted withdelight. The incident awakened natural curiosity on ourpart as to the relation between the Polynesian language ofSamoa and the vernacular of the hill tribes around theDavao gulf. From Davao we proceeded on our journey aroundMindanao, sailing out into the open Pacific and up to theprovince of Surigao in the northeast corner of the island. The town of Surigao lies six miles up a swamp-bound, sluggish river and we experienced, as we so often did in the whole course of the trip, a sense of being in uncharted and therefore dangerous waters. We embarked in a launch 176
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