The Philippines: A Geographical Reader (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Macclintock, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0282595821 ISBN 13: 9780282595821

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from The Philippines: A Geographical Reader

We pass several small towns on our way up the river. In some of these towns the people make brick, tiles, and pottery. These are made of clay. Bricks are used in building houses, tiles in making roofs and floors, and pots and jars, in cooking, and in other ways.

On the right bank of the river we pass a large cave. In this cave people once stored gunpowder. They did not like to keep it in Manila, for there it might explode and kill or injure many people. So for safety it was kept in this cave.

You see people all along the river washing clothes, by beating them clean on a large flat stone. Many people in Manila send their clothes up the river to be washed.

Here is a picture of a man fishing. As you see, this fisherman does not use a net or a pole and line but has a basket that he thrusts down into the water. When he gets a fish inside, he pulls it out with his hand. We also see many pens in which large quan tities of fish are caught.

Sometimes we see divers going to the bottom of the river to get sand. They scoop it up into baskets, put it on cascos, and take it to the city. This sand is used in making mortar. I wonder how many of you know what mortar is used for?

The Pasig winds in and out, between low banks, which it often overflows in times of high water.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0282595821
• ISBN 13: 9780282595821
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 108
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