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ILLUSTRATIONS
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A Morn datu with his retinue, and the favourite wife of a datu with her maids-in-waiting | 170 |
Picturesque bead bedecked Bogoboa of the Davao country | 176 |
Philippine non-Christians: A Bontoc Igorrote (top left), a Mora and two Kalinga chiefs (with shields) | 182 |
On the long trail in Northern Luzon. Mrs. Taft second from the left | 186 |
Mr. Taft and Charlie enjoying their favourite exercise | 186 |
An Igorrote Head Dance and a company of cargodores with their dogs which are to he killed for food | 190 |
Views of the extraordinary Igorrote rice terraces. Practically all of the wild men's country is cultivated in this manner | 192 |
Igorrote chief proudly displaying his house decorations of human skulls and carabao horns | 196 |
Bontoc Igorrotes with ganzas showing handles made of human jaw bones | 196 |
Benguet Road before and after completion. Not the most thrilling curve on this spectacular highway | 200 |
The Zigzag. How the Benguet Road climbs to an altitude of over 5,000 feet in six miles | 204 |
Mr. Taft taking the oath of office as first American Governor of the Philippine Islands | 208 |
Two views of Malacañan Palace. The first picture shows the wide, roofless veranda over the Pasig River | 214 |
Scenes attending Governor Taft's arrival in Manila after his first absence | 250 |
Arch erected by the Partido Federal representing Filipina offering another star to the American flag | 258 |
Mr. and Mrs. Taft with members of their family and staff including Major Noble, aide (at left), and Mr. Fred C. Carpenter, private secretary (right), in costumes worn at the Venetian Carnival | 270 |
Mr. Taft and Colonel Goethals, in Panama | 290 |
(From left to right) Mrs. Jaime de Veyra, Mrs. Taft, Governor Smith, Mrs. Smith, Mr. Taft, Mr. Sergio Osmena, Speaker of the Philippine Assembly, and members of the Assembly in the Ayuntamiento, Manila | 312 |
The White House as it looked on the evening of the Fourth of March, 1909 | 324 |